Brave Search API pricing and rate limits
Cost at your volume
| Tier | Monthly cost | Breakdown |
|---|---|---|
| Search$0 base + usage | $550 / mo | base $0 + Search requests overage $50 + API requests overage $500 |
| Answers$0 base + usage | $440 / mo cheapest | base $0 + Search requests overage $40 + API requests overage $400 |
| EnterpriseContact sales | unlisted | Contact sales |
Cheapest: Answers at $440/mo.
Example volumes you can edit; not vendor data. Costs use the shared Overage cost function, identical to the API and MCP. Usage the vendor does not price is excluded, never guessed. Optional add-ons are not included in these totals. Overage marked pay-as-you-go applies only if you enable it; otherwise the allowance is a hard cap.
Tiers
| Item | Search | Answers | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base price | |||
| Price | $0 base + usageBrave uses prepaid credits, not subscriptions, so you’re only charged for credits you choose to buy.source | $0 base + usageBrave uses prepaid credits, not subscriptions, so you’re only charged for credits you choose to buy.source | Contact salesprice unlisted |
| Included | |||
| Vendor credits | 5 / mo Includes _$5 in free_ credits _every month_source | 5 / mo Includes _$5 in free_ credits _every month_source | unlisted |
| Overage rates | |||
| Search requests | $5 per 1,000 $5 per 1,000 requestssource$5 / 1,000 requests | $4 per 1,000 $4 per 1,000 requestssource$4 / 1,000 requests | unlisted |
| API requests | $5 per 1,000 $5 per 1,000 requestssource$5 / 1,000 requests | $4 per 1,000 $4 per 1,000 requestssource$4 / 1,000 requests | unlisted |
| Rate limits | |||
| API requests per secondper org | 5050 queries per secondsource | 22 queries per secondsource | unlisted |
| Features | |||
| soc2 | yes | yes | yes |
Prices in USD, per the vendor's billing period. Hover or focus a number for the line it came from, with a link to the stored snapshot. "unlisted" means the vendor does not publish it; we never fill the gap.
Rate limits
| Tier | Metric | Limit | Window | Scope | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Search | API requests | 5050 queries per secondsource | per second | per org | documented |
| Answers | API requests | 22 queries per secondsource | per second | per org | documented |
Change timeline
No changes recorded.
Tracking began 2026-10-24; no change has been detected since.
Sources
| URL | Kind | Last captured | Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|
| brave.com/search/api/ | pricing | 2026-10-24 | snap_brave-search-api-pricing-0_20261023T210653Z |
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