Brave Search API
Run a Brave web search and get the ranked organic results (title, URL, snippet, position, display URL, domain) as clean JSON. Brave answers from its own independent index. Returns up to 20 results per call; pick the country Brave searches from.
Pricing and providers
Brave Search API pricing: one API, 3 interchangeable providers
The cheapest provider serves first. If it fails, the next one takes over in the same call.
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Get Brave search in one request
{
"data": {
"items": [
{
"displayUrl": "https://example.com/page",
"domain": "example.com",
"position": 1,
"snippet": "A short example description of this item.",
"title": "Example title",
"url": "https://example.com/page"
}
],
"query": "example"
},
"found": true,
"reason": "not_found"
}Full parameter and response reference - every field, type, and example for this endpoint.
Reference
One request, one response shape.
Every field you send and every field you get back, each with a real example.
Last verified 2026-10-19 · uptime and latency measured over 30d
Request body
JSON, posted to this endpoint.
- querystring
best running shoes
The Brave search query.
- countryenum
US
ISO-3166 alpha-2 country Brave searches from, e.g. US, GB, DE. Brave ranks and localizes results for that country. Only the countries Brave offers are accepted; US is served by every source and the others by the sources that can target them.
- limitinteger
20
Maximum number of organic results to return (1-20, default 20). Brave serves about 20 organic results per page, and some queries carry fewer.
Response
JSON, one example value per field.
Organic results in Brave's ranked order. Ads are not included. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- displayUrlstring
The URL as Brave displays it under the title, e.g. a host or a breadcrumb path. Its format differs by source. null when the source did not send one.
- domainstring
Host of the result URL without a leading www., e.g. runnersworld.com.
- positioninteger
1-based rank of the result on the page. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- snippetstring
Text excerpt Brave shows under the result, often led by the page date. Absent on the results where Brave shows none. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- titlestring
Result title as Brave shows it. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- urlstring
Destination URL of the result. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
The organic results, or null when Brave returned none.
- querystring
The query Brave searched.
- foundboolean
Whether Brave returned organic results for the query.
- reason"not_found"
Present only when `found` is false, and says why there is no result. `not_found`: the source states the target does not exist, or returned nothing for it. A `found: false` answer is a successful call, not an error, and `costUsd` is what it actually cost.
FAQ
About the Brave Search API
The AnyAPI Brave Search API returns Brave search data as normalized JSON from one POST call to /v1/run/brave.search. Run a Brave web search and get the ranked organic results (title, URL, snippet, position, display URL, domain) as clean JSON. Brave answers from its own independent index. Returns up to 20 results per call; pick the country Brave searches from. AnyAPI routes each request across 3 sources and falls back automatically when one fails. It costs from $0.85 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. Over the last 30 days, 100.0% of Brave search calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 2.7 seconds across 2 measured calls.