# Brave

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/brave-browser/  
**Website:** https://brave.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 26

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.

## Kin Score — 36.7 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 36.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 53.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 42.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

## Agent readiness — 34.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (26)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Brave Browser Agentic Access** — 9 operations

## Security (3)

- **Brave Browser Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Brave Browser Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Brave Browser Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Brave Browser Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Browser, Search, Privacy, Chromium, Web3, Artificial Intelligence, Advertising

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/brave-browser/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.