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Brave Search API

Independent search index. Privacy-respecting, non-Google.

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API access to Brave's independently-crawled search index. Useful when you need a non-Google source, want to dodge upstream rate limits, or have privacy posture requirements that rule out scraping competitors.

Model support

Model-agnostic

Where it runs

  • API

Tags

  • #search-api
  • #independent-index
  • #privacy
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