Endpoints & Pricing
Four Endpoints, One Flat Price
Same flat pricing across all five search engines — web, news, image, and video endpoints are priced identically whether you query Brave, Google, Bing, Yahoo, or DuckDuckGo. Brave has no Shopping endpoint; for product listings use the Google or Yahoo Shopping APIs.
Web SERP
- Quick & deep web search
- Structured web results
- Multi-page pagination
- Country targeting
- AI digest as
aiOverview
News
- Structured news fields
- Title, URL, source, date
- Article excerpts
- Freshness filter
- Country targeting
Images
- Full-size & thumbnail URLs
- Image dimensions
- Source page URL
- SafeSearch filtering
- Structured image fields
Videos
- Title, URL, duration
- Thumbnail URLs
- Source & publish date
- Structured video fields
- Country targeting
Cost Calculator
See How Much You Save
Web search on the Brave engine is billed from $0.03/1K pages at the Scale tier — the same flat pricing every engine gets. Here is what Brave web searches cost.
Why Brave SERP data
An independent index built for privacy
Brave runs one of the few major search indexes that is not part of the Google or Microsoft families, and it does not profile users or tailor results around search history. That makes Brave a genuinely independent third view of the web for research, monitoring, and rank tracking.
A third independent index
Brave maintains its own web index with its own ranking, so results can differ meaningfully from Google, Bing, and Yahoo. Teams that cross-check independent indexes catch ranking moves and content gaps the big two miss.
Privacy-first by default
Brave does not build user profiles or personalize results around browsing history, so the SERPs you capture reflect the web rather than a user bubble, which keeps data collection clean and reproducible.
AI digest as aiOverview
For many queries Brave opens with an AI digest, a concise AI-written answer summary. The endpoint returns it as an aiOverview field, so you can surface or monitor it programmatically.
The same flat pricing and response shape
Brave web, news, image, and video endpoints are priced identically to every other search engine in the catalog and return the same documented JSON structure, so adding Brave to your pipeline is a one-line change.
Quick Start
Brave API in One Request
Set engine=brave and start searching. Works with cURL, Python, JavaScript, or any HTTP client. Try our free tier to get started.
# Brave web search - from $0.03/1K (AI digest returned as aiOverview) curl "https://apiserpent.com/api/search?q=best+programming+languages+2025&engine=brave&num=10" \ -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"
{
"searchParameters": {
"q": "best programming languages 2025",
"engine": "brave",
"type": "search"
},
"results": {
"organic": [
{
"title": "Top 10 Programming Languages to Learn in 2025",
"url": "https://example.com/top-languages",
"snippet": "Python, JavaScript, and Rust lead the rankings...",
"position": 1
},
{
"title": "Best Languages for Web Development 2025",
"url": "https://example.com/web-dev-languages",
"snippet": "TypeScript adoption surged 40% in 2024...",
"position": 2
}
]
},
"totalResults": 10,
"credits": { "used": 1, "remaining": 99 }
}
Ideal For
Built for High-Volume Use Cases
Brave's independent index plus flat engine pricing makes it a practical choice for these scenarios.
Independent-Index Research
Brave runs its own crawler and index, so its results are not an echo of Google or Bing. For audits that need a genuinely different view of the web, Brave is one of the few non-Google, non-Bing Western indexes.
Rank Tracking at Scale
Monitor keyword positions across thousands of terms with the same flat per-page pricing as every other engine. Failed requests are not charged, which keeps repeated SEO monitoring predictable.
AI-Digest Monitoring
Brave's AI digest is returned as the aiOverview field, so you can track when and how a query earns an AI summary alongside organic results — without a separate product.
News Monitoring
Track news mentions with structured fields — title, URL, source, and date — plus a freshness filter, so you can monitor brand mentions and industry trends without high costs.
Image Collection
Collect full-size and thumbnail image URLs with dimensions and source-page links for training datasets, content creation, or visual research on an independent index.
Video Monitoring
Track video results with titles, URLs, durations, thumbnails, and publish dates. Useful for monitoring a brand or topic across an independent index's video surface.
FAQ
Brave API Questions
aiOverview field alongside the organic results, so you can read or monitor it programmatically.
Start from $0.03 per 1,000 Searches
Brave's independent index at the same flat price as every other engine. New accounts include 10 shared free calls for eligible endpoints. No credit card required to start.
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