Brave Releases Its Search API

Brave has launched its Brave Search API, allowing third parties to integrate its privacy-preserving and ad-free search results into their applications through a simple API call. Thurrott reports: Brave notes that its Search API is inexpensive and that it's a great fit for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models developers in particular because it provides access to a collection of high-quality, Web-scale data including recent events. Brave claims that its standalone Brave Search offering now delivers over 8 billion annualized queries, which makes it the fastest-growing search engine since Microsoft Bing. And in sharp contrast to the market leaders, Brave Search is private and transparent. Plus, it's fueled by opt-in users of the Brave browser's Web Discovery Project, which adds millions of new web pages to the index every single day and keeps it current and fresh. The Brave web browser has over 60 million active users now, the company adds.

A free version of the Brave Search API provides one search query per second and up to 2,000 queries per month. Paid tiers start at $3 CPM (cost per one thousand) for 20 queries per second and up to 20 million queries per month, with access to web search, Goggles, news cluster, and videos cluster, plus added cost access to autosuggest and spellcheck at $5 per 10,000 requests. Higher-price tiers add more queries per second and per month, plus additional capabilities like schema-enriched web results, infobox, FAQ, discussions, locations, and more.

Re: A search api, you say?

[binarylarry]

Don't forget the nonstop crashes their POS gives you on mobile.

Oddly only when you search Google.. gee that's a company I want to trust with my privacy.

Web3?

[nullchar]

Can any Brave users comment about "Web3.0" experiences?

Re: Web3?

[sirber]

The browser is nice once you disable all the crypto stuff.

Can you strip out their horrible query expansions?

[ccham]

Their search ignores quotes, swaps conjugations, and all sorts of 'smart' crap to make queries next to useless for anything technical or scientific. It is ripe garbage. Did they hire the A9 team?

Wouldn't it be cool

[byronivs]

I like to get search results I asked for. Seems to me, there's a ripe market for a website maybe, you can call it an app if it tickles you. A place where I type in " Thai food" and McDonald's isn't considered or results from some other . And maybe I see a list of two things, because that's how much Thai food there is here. The rest can fill with alternatives...maybe use all that nifty AI to tie it to the supermarket locally, if they have a Thai deli thing on offer or a frozen case item. Oh no grift there, s

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