# Brave

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/brave/  
**Website:** https://brave.com  
**APIs profiled:** 10

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.

## Kin Score — 42.1 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 42.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 64.0 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

## Agent readiness — 38.3 (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 | partial |
| 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

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

## APIs (10)

- **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

## Agentic access (1)

- **Brave Agentic Access** — 11 operations

## Security (3)

- **Brave Authentication** — apiKey · 2 schemes
- **Brave Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Brave Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Brave Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Search, Advertising, Privacy, Browser, Artificial Intelligence, LLM

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