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Brave Search Alternatives

Independent crawler index · Search · entry $5 / 1k

Shopping for a Brave Search alternative? Whether it’s pricing, rate limits, coverage or reliability, here are the strongest search providers measured head-to-head on the identical curator-fleet corpus — no vendor spin.

The switcher’s shortcut: Auxiliar already includes Brave Search and every alternative below on one key and one bill. So you can A/B them against your own workload — or just route each request to whichever scores best — without opening a single new account.

Top Brave Search alternatives, ranked

Best composite score across the capabilities each provider was measured on — same corpus as Brave Search.

1 Serper You want the cheapest, fastest Google grounding and will synthesize results yourself. 9.56/10 $1.00 → $0.30 / 1k 2 SearchAPI.io You want SerpApi-compatible JSON at a lower price, with pay-per-success billing. 9.02/10 $1.00–$4.00 / 1k 3 SerpApi You're compliance-sensitive, need multi-engine breadth, or want the drop-in LangChain default. 9/10 ~$15 → $9 / 1k 4 Jina You want clean LLM-ready markdown from a URL or a search-plus-read in a single call. 8.43/10 ~token-based 5 Tavily You want the agent/RAG default that returns a relevance score and optional answer in one call. 8.38/10 $8 (basic) / $16 (adv) / 1k 6 DataForSEO You need bulk async SERP scraping, webhooks, and the deepest SERP-feature taxonomy. 8.09/10 $0.60 async / $2 live / 1k

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curl https://api.auxiliar.ai/serper/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AUXILIAR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q": "latest ai agent news"}'
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