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Brave

Brave is a privacy-first browser company offering developer APIs for anonymous web search and privacy-preserving advertising. The Brave Search API provides real-time search results from an independent index of over 30 billion pages, designed for AI and LLM applications with schema-enriched results and citation- grounded answer completions. The Brave Ads API enables advertisers to manage campaigns and access performance reporting data for privacy-respecting native browser and search ads.

Brave publishes 9 APIs on the APIs.io network, including campaigns API, images API, local API, and 6 more. Tagged areas include Search, Advertising, Privacy, Browser, and AI.

The Brave catalog on APIs.io includes 2 JSON-LD contexts and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Brave’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 11 more developer resources.

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48.4/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 34/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessPaidSelf serve
10 APIs
SearchAdvertisingPrivacyBrowserAILLM

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Composite quality — 48.4/100 · developing
Contract Quality 16.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 7.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 34/100 · 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 7 / 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 10

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

Brave Ads API

API for managing and reporting on Brave Ads campaigns. Enables advertisers to retrieve campaign details and performance data for privacy-preserving native browser ads and search...

Brave campaigns API

Campaign management and hierarchy endpoints

Brave images API

Image search endpoints

Brave local API

Local place of interest endpoints

Brave news API

News search endpoints

Brave reporting API

Campaign performance reporting endpoints

Brave spellcheck API

Spellcheck endpoints

Brave suggest API

Autosuggest endpoints

Brave videos API

Video search endpoints

Brave web API

Web search endpoints

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Brave Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Brave Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Brave Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 2

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Brave Ads Context

34 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Brave Search Context

51 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Brave API Rules

6 rules · 5 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Campaign

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SuggestResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WebSearchResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Spellcheck Response

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Suggest Response

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Web Search Response

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 3

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

Brave Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Brave Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Brave Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Brave Agentic Access

11 operations

11 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

GitHubOrg
GitHubOrg

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage
StatusPage
 RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

X
X

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: brave
name: Brave
description: 'Brave is a privacy-first browser company offering developer APIs for anonymous web search and privacy-preserving
  advertising. The Brave Search API provides real-time search results from an independent index of over 30 billion pages,
  designed for AI and LLM applications with schema-enriched results and citation- grounded answer completions. The Brave Ads
  API enables advertisers to manage campaigns and access performance reporting data for privacy-respecting native browser
  and search ads.

  '
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid · 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.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/brave/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- Search
- Advertising
- Privacy
- Browser
- AI
- LLM
apis:
- aid: brave:brave-ads-api
  name: Brave Ads API
  description: 'API for managing and reporting on Brave Ads campaigns. Enables advertisers to retrieve campaign details and
    performance data for privacy-preserving native browser ads and search ads. Supports customizable reporting dimensions
    and metrics including impressions, clicks, spend, and conversion tracking. Authentication uses API keys generated from
    the Brave Ads dashboard.

    '
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://ads-help.brave.com/campaign-performance/API/
  baseURL: https://ads-serve.brave.com
  tags:
  - Advertising
  - Campaigns
  - Publisher
  - Privacy
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ads-help.brave.com/campaign-performance/API/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://ads.brave.com
  - type: Dashboard
    url: https://ads.brave.com
  contact:
  - FN: Brave Ads
    url: https://brave.com/brave-ads/
    email: adsales@brave.com
- aid: brave:brave-campaigns-api
  name: Brave campaigns API
  description: Campaign management and hierarchy endpoints
  humanURL: https://brave.com/search/api/
  baseURL: https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/
  tags:
  - campaigns
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brave-campaigns-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation/web-search/get-started
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://brave.com/search/api/
  - type: Dashboard
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server
- aid: brave:brave-images-api
  name: Brave images API
  description: Image search endpoints
  humanURL: https://brave.com/search/api/
  baseURL: https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/
  tags:
  - images
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brave-images-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation/web-search/get-started
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://brave.com/search/api/
  - type: Dashboard
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server
- aid: brave:brave-local-api
  name: Brave local API
  description: Local place of interest endpoints
  humanURL: https://brave.com/search/api/
  baseURL: https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/
  tags:
  - local
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brave-local-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation/web-search/get-started
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://brave.com/search/api/
  - type: Dashboard
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server
- aid: brave:brave-news-api
  name: Brave news API
  description: News search endpoints
  humanURL: https://brave.com/search/api/
  baseURL: https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/
  tags:
  - news
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brave-news-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation/web-search/get-started
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://brave.com/search/api/
  - type: Dashboard
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server
- aid: brave:brave-reporting-api
  name: Brave reporting API
  description: Campaign performance reporting endpoints
  humanURL: https://brave.com/search/api/
  baseURL: https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/
  tags:
  - reporting
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brave-reporting-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation/web-search/get-started
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://brave.com/search/api/
  - type: Dashboard
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server
- aid: brave:brave-spellcheck-api
  name: Brave spellcheck API
  description: Spellcheck endpoints
  humanURL: https://brave.com/search/api/
  baseURL: https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/
  tags:
  - spellcheck
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brave-spellcheck-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation/web-search/get-started
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://brave.com/search/api/
  - type: Dashboard
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server
- aid: brave:brave-suggest-api
  name: Brave suggest API
  description: Autosuggest endpoints
  humanURL: https://brave.com/search/api/
  baseURL: https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/
  tags:
  - suggest
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brave-suggest-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation/web-search/get-started
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://brave.com/search/api/
  - type: Dashboard
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server
- aid: brave:brave-videos-api
  name: Brave videos API
  description: Video search endpoints
  humanURL: https://brave.com/search/api/
  baseURL: https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/
  tags:
  - videos
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brave-videos-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation/web-search/get-started
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://brave.com/search/api/
  - type: Dashboard
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server
- aid: brave:brave-web-api
  name: Brave web API
  description: Web search endpoints
  humanURL: https://brave.com/search/api/
  baseURL: https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/
  tags:
  - web
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brave-web-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation/web-search/get-started
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://brave.com/search/api/
  - type: Dashboard
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/brave-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/brave-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/brave-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/brave-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://brave.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation/web-search/get-started
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/brave
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brave-software
- type: Blog
  url: https://brave.com/blog/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://brave.com/search/api/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.brave.app
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/brave
- type: Plans
  url: plans/brave-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/brave-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/brave-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com