Brave Search API Free Monthly Credits
$5 in free Brave Search API credits every month on each plan
What you get from Brave Search API Free Monthly Credits for free
Overview
The Brave Search API serves web, news, image, video and LLM-context results from Brave's own independent index, with no fallback to Google or Bing. Every plan includes $5 in free credits every month, applied automatically; Brave's page sums this as "up to $20 in free calls every month" across its plans.
Free Tier Quotas & Limits
- Search: $5 per 1,000 requests, so the free $5 covers about 1,000 requests a month; 50 queries per second
- Answers (LLM answers grounded on search): $4 per 1,000 requests plus $5 per million input/output tokens; 2 queries per second
- Spellcheck / autosuggest: $5 per 10,000 requests; 100 requests per second
- Prepaid credits, no subscription; you are only charged for credits you choose to buy
- A credit card is required at signup to prevent abuse
- Storing results or using them to train models needs a plan that includes storage rights
How to Get Started
- Open the Brave Search API dashboard and sign up for a plan.
- Add a credit card; the $5 monthly credit is applied automatically.
- Create an API key and call
https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search.
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