Brave Search

Independent crawler index T1 Search /brave

Brave Search is one of the few genuinely independent search indexes on the market, built from Brave’s own crawl of tens of billions of pages rather than reselling Google or Bing. That independence pairs with a strong privacy posture and rights designed for AI use, including a Summarizer and a token-efficient context endpoint that ground models in fresh, citable results. For teams that want a credible alternative to the search duopoly — for resilience, principle or product differentiation — Brave is the standout option.

Entry price
$5 / 1k
MCP
official
Latency

Choose if

You want an index that isn't a Google/Bing scrape, plus a privacy posture and AI grounding.

Avoid if

You need more than ~200 results per query.

Evals

How Brave Search performed on the curator-fleet web-access evals — the real measured numbers behind each composite, ranked best-first.

Answercomposite 7.02/10 #5 of 7
1.00
Correctness
0.28
Citation faithfulness
2.4 s
Latency p50
$0.06 / call
Cost
0%
Errors
Correct, but far pricier per query than peers.
Searchcomposite 6.99/10 #4 of 11
0.64
Recall@10
1.3 s
Latency p50
$0.0078 / useful result
Cost
0%
Errors
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