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Brave

Brave Software builds a privacy-first Chromium-based browser, an independent search engine (Brave Search), an in-browser AI assistant (Leo), a video conferencing product (Brave Talk), an opt-in attention economy (Brave Rewards / Basic Attention Token), a wallet (Brave Wallet), and a privacy advertising platform (Brave Ads). Developer-facing APIs are concentrated in the Brave Search API (api.search.brave.com), which exposes web, news, image, video, suggest, spellcheck, summarizer, and local POI endpoints authenticated via X-Subscription-Token. Browser code is open source under MPL-2.0 on GitHub.

Brave publishes 8 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Images API, Local API, News API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Browser, Search, Privacy, Chromium, and Web3.

Brave’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, GitHub presence, engineering blog, and 7 more developer resources.

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
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Composite quality — 34.8/100 · thin
Contract Quality 13.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 26

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Brave Browser

Privacy-first Chromium-based browser for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS, with built-in tracker and ad blocking (Brave Shields), HTTPS upgrades, Global Privacy Control, ...

Brave Search

Independent privacy-respecting web search engine backed by Brave's own index. Surfaces the consumer product at search.brave.com and powers the Brave Search API.

Brave Search API - Web Search

REST endpoint for general web search results with country, language, safe-search, and freshness filtering. Authenticated via X-Subscription-Token header.

Brave Search API - Image Search

Image search endpoint returning images with metadata, thumbnails, and SafeSearch filtering.

Brave Search API - Video Search

Video search endpoint returning videos with thumbnails, duration, and source metadata.

Brave Search API - News Search

Real-time news search endpoint returning articles from trusted sources with freshness filtering.

Brave Search API - Suggest

Autosuggest endpoint that returns query completions for a partial input.

Brave Search API - Spellcheck

Spelling correction endpoint for refining noisy or misspelled user queries.

Brave Search API - Summarizer

AI summarizer endpoint that condenses search results into a generated summary for use in agentic and AI-grounded applications.

Brave Search API - Local POIs

Local search endpoint returning point-of-interest details given IDs surfaced by web search results.

Brave Search API - Local Descriptions

AI-generated descriptions for local points of interest, complementing the Local POIs endpoint.

Brave Search MCP Server

Model Context Protocol server wrapping the Brave Search API so AI agents can ground answers in real-time web results.

Brave Leo AI

In-browser AI assistant offering chat, summarization, translation, and content generation grounded in the page or tab the user is viewing. Surfaced inside the browser; not a pub...

Brave Talk

End-to-end encrypted video conferencing product, available free with premium tier for larger meetings.

Brave Rewards

Opt-in attention rewards program paying users in Basic Attention Token (BAT) for viewing privacy-preserving ads, and enabling tipping of verified creators.

Brave Ads

Privacy-respecting advertising platform for advertisers that targets anonymized cohorts inside the Brave browser and on Brave Search.

Brave Wallet

Native multi-chain crypto wallet built into the Brave browser. Supports EVM and Solana networks; integrates with WalletConnect and dApps.

Brave Images API

The Images API from Brave — 1 operation(s) for images.

Brave Local API

The Local API from Brave — 2 operation(s) for local.

Brave News API

The News API from Brave — 1 operation(s) for news.

Brave Spellcheck API

The Spellcheck API from Brave — 1 operation(s) for spellcheck.

Brave Suggest API

The Suggest API from Brave — 1 operation(s) for suggest.

Brave Summarizer API

The Summarizer API from Brave — 1 operation(s) for summarizer.

Brave Videos API

The Videos API from Brave — 1 operation(s) for videos.

Brave Web API

The Web API from Brave — 1 operation(s) for web.

Brave News

Privacy-preserving news feed integrated into the browser's new tab page, sourced from a curated set of publisher feeds.

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Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Brave Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Brave Browser Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Brave Browser Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Brave Browser Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Brave Browser Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Brave Browser Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Brave Browser Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Brave Browser Agentic Access

9 operations

9 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub
GitHub

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Twitter
Twitter
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Search
Search

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: brave-browser
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/brave-browser/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Brave
kind: company
description: Brave Software builds a privacy-first Chromium-based browser, an independent search engine (Brave Search), an
  in-browser AI assistant (Leo), a video conferencing product (Brave Talk), an opt-in attention economy (Brave Rewards / Basic
  Attention Token), a wallet (Brave Wallet), and a privacy advertising platform (Brave Ads). Developer-facing APIs are concentrated
  in the Brave Search API (api.search.brave.com), which exposes web, news, image, video, suggest, spellcheck, summarizer,
  and local POI endpoints authenticated via X-Subscription-Token. Browser code is open source under MPL-2.0 on GitHub.
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/brave-browser.png
tags:
- Browser
- Search
- Privacy
- Chromium
- Web3
- AI
- Advertising
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-07-25'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: brave-browser:browser
  name: Brave Browser
  description: Privacy-first Chromium-based browser for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS, with built-in tracker and
    ad blocking (Brave Shields), HTTPS upgrades, Global Privacy Control, and a Tor-enabled private window on desktop. Open
    source under MPL-2.0.
  humanURL: https://brave.com/
  baseURL: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
  tags:
  - Browser
  - Chromium
  - Open Source
  properties:
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
- aid: brave-browser:search
  name: Brave Search
  description: Independent privacy-respecting web search engine backed by Brave's own index. Surfaces the consumer product
    at search.brave.com and powers the Brave Search API.
  humanURL: https://search.brave.com/
  baseURL: https://search.brave.com/
  tags:
  - Search
  - Web
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://search.brave.com/
- aid: brave-browser:search-api-web
  name: Brave Search API - Web Search
  description: REST endpoint for general web search results with country, language, safe-search, and freshness filtering.
    Authenticated via X-Subscription-Token header.
  humanURL: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation
  baseURL: https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search
  tags:
  - Search API
  - Web Search
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation
- aid: brave-browser:search-api-images
  name: Brave Search API - Image Search
  description: Image search endpoint returning images with metadata, thumbnails, and SafeSearch filtering.
  humanURL: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation
  baseURL: https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/images/search
  tags:
  - Search API
  - Image Search
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation
- aid: brave-browser:search-api-videos
  name: Brave Search API - Video Search
  description: Video search endpoint returning videos with thumbnails, duration, and source metadata.
  humanURL: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation
  baseURL: https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/videos/search
  tags:
  - Search API
  - Video Search
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation
- aid: brave-browser:search-api-news
  name: Brave Search API - News Search
  description: Real-time news search endpoint returning articles from trusted sources with freshness filtering.
  humanURL: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation
  baseURL: https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/news/search
  tags:
  - Search API
  - News
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation
- aid: brave-browser:search-api-suggest
  name: Brave Search API - Suggest
  description: Autosuggest endpoint that returns query completions for a partial input.
  humanURL: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation
  baseURL: https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/suggest/search
  tags:
  - Search API
  - Autosuggest
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation
- aid: brave-browser:search-api-spellcheck
  name: Brave Search API - Spellcheck
  description: Spelling correction endpoint for refining noisy or misspelled user queries.
  humanURL: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation
  baseURL: https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/spellcheck/search
  tags:
  - Search API
  - Spellcheck
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation
- aid: brave-browser:search-api-summarizer
  name: Brave Search API - Summarizer
  description: AI summarizer endpoint that condenses search results into a generated summary for use in agentic and AI-grounded
    applications.
  humanURL: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation
  baseURL: https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/summarizer/search
  tags:
  - Search API
  - Summarizer
  - AI
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation
- aid: brave-browser:search-api-local-pois
  name: Brave Search API - Local POIs
  description: Local search endpoint returning point-of-interest details given IDs surfaced by web search results.
  humanURL: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation
  baseURL: https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/local/pois
  tags:
  - Search API
  - Local
  - POI
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation
- aid: brave-browser:search-api-local-descriptions
  name: Brave Search API - Local Descriptions
  description: AI-generated descriptions for local points of interest, complementing the Local POIs endpoint.
  humanURL: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation
  baseURL: https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/local/descriptions
  tags:
  - Search API
  - Local
  - AI
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation
- aid: brave-browser:search-mcp
  name: Brave Search MCP Server
  description: Model Context Protocol server wrapping the Brave Search API so AI agents can ground answers in real-time web
    results.
  humanURL: https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server
  baseURL: https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server
  tags:
  - MCP
  - AI
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server
- aid: brave-browser:leo
  name: Brave Leo AI
  description: In-browser AI assistant offering chat, summarization, translation, and content generation grounded in the page
    or tab the user is viewing. Surfaced inside the browser; not a public REST API.
  humanURL: https://brave.com/leo/
  baseURL: https://brave.com/leo/
  tags:
  - AI
  - Assistant
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://brave.com/leo/
- aid: brave-browser:talk
  name: Brave Talk
  description: End-to-end encrypted video conferencing product, available free with premium tier for larger meetings.
  humanURL: https://brave.com/talk/
  baseURL: https://talk.brave.com/
  tags:
  - Video
  - Conferencing
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://brave.com/talk/
- aid: brave-browser:rewards
  name: Brave Rewards
  description: Opt-in attention rewards program paying users in Basic Attention Token (BAT) for viewing privacy-preserving
    ads, and enabling tipping of verified creators.
  humanURL: https://brave.com/rewards/
  baseURL: https://brave.com/rewards/
  tags:
  - Rewards
  - BAT
  - Web3
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://brave.com/rewards/
- aid: brave-browser:ads
  name: Brave Ads
  description: Privacy-respecting advertising platform for advertisers that targets anonymized cohorts inside the Brave browser
    and on Brave Search.
  humanURL: https://brave.com/brave-ads/
  baseURL: https://brave.com/brave-ads/
  tags:
  - Advertising
  - Privacy
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://brave.com/brave-ads/
- aid: brave-browser:wallet
  name: Brave Wallet
  description: Native multi-chain crypto wallet built into the Brave browser. Supports EVM and Solana networks; integrates
    with WalletConnect and dApps.
  humanURL: https://brave.com/wallet/
  baseURL: https://brave.com/wallet/
  tags:
  - Wallet
  - Web3
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://brave.com/wallet/
- aid: brave-browser:brave-browser-images-api
  name: Brave Images API
  description: The Images API from Brave — 1 operation(s) for images.
  humanURL: https://brave.com/
  baseURL: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
  tags:
  - Images
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brave-browser-images-api-openapi.yml
- aid: brave-browser:brave-browser-local-api
  name: Brave Local API
  description: The Local API from Brave — 2 operation(s) for local.
  humanURL: https://brave.com/
  baseURL: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
  tags:
  - Local
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brave-browser-local-api-openapi.yml
- aid: brave-browser:brave-browser-news-api
  name: Brave News API
  description: The News API from Brave — 1 operation(s) for news.
  humanURL: https://brave.com/
  baseURL: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
  tags:
  - News
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brave-browser-news-api-openapi.yml
- aid: brave-browser:brave-browser-spellcheck-api
  name: Brave Spellcheck API
  description: The Spellcheck API from Brave — 1 operation(s) for spellcheck.
  humanURL: https://brave.com/
  baseURL: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
  tags:
  - Spellcheck
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brave-browser-spellcheck-api-openapi.yml
- aid: brave-browser:brave-browser-suggest-api
  name: Brave Suggest API
  description: The Suggest API from Brave — 1 operation(s) for suggest.
  humanURL: https://brave.com/
  baseURL: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
  tags:
  - Suggest
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brave-browser-suggest-api-openapi.yml
- aid: brave-browser:brave-browser-summarizer-api
  name: Brave Summarizer API
  description: The Summarizer API from Brave — 1 operation(s) for summarizer.
  humanURL: https://brave.com/
  baseURL: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
  tags:
  - Summarizer
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brave-browser-summarizer-api-openapi.yml
- aid: brave-browser:brave-browser-videos-api
  name: Brave Videos API
  description: The Videos API from Brave — 1 operation(s) for videos.
  humanURL: https://brave.com/
  baseURL: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
  tags:
  - Videos
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brave-browser-videos-api-openapi.yml
- aid: brave-browser:brave-browser-web-api
  name: Brave Web API
  description: The Web API from Brave — 1 operation(s) for web.
  humanURL: https://brave.com/
  baseURL: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
  tags:
  - Web
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brave-browser-web-api-openapi.yml
- aid: brave-browser:news
  name: Brave News
  description: Privacy-preserving news feed integrated into the browser's new tab page, sourced from a curated set of publisher
    feeds.
  humanURL: https://brave.com/brave-news/
  baseURL: https://brave.com/brave-news/
  tags:
  - News
  - Content
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://brave.com/brave-news/
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/brave-browser-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/brave-browser-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/brave-browser-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/brave-browser-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://brave.com/
- type: Search
  url: https://search.brave.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/brave
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brave-software-
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/brave
- url: https://brave.com/blog/index.xml
  type: Blog
integrations:
- name: Chromium Extensions
- name: WalletConnect
- name: Ethereum
- name: Solana
- name: Model Context Protocol
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com