Brave Search pricing
Brave Search starts at $4 per 1,000 requests and has a free tier, with self-serve signup.
Last checked 2026-08-22. Verify on the vendor's own page before you commit spend.
Plans
| Plan | Price | Included |
|---|---|---|
| Search | $5 per 1,000 requests | 50 queries per second |
| Answers | $4 per 1,000 requests + $5 per million input/output tokens | 2 queries per second |
| Enterprise | Custom | - |
There is no free entry plan, so an agent needs a paid account before its first call. The top plan (Enterprise) is quoted rather than listed, so anything at that volume goes through a person.
Can an agent buy this on its own?
A price is only half the question. The other half is whether software can get from landing on the site to making a paid call without a person, which is what the AgentReady measures under adopt.
For Brave Search, it can create an account itself.
Against that, a sales call gates access; the signup flow assumes a human at a browser; credentials must be minted by hand in a dashboard. Each of those is a point where an unattended run stops and waits for a human.
That works out to 60/100 on adopt, against 58/100 overall.
What you are paying for
Brave Search is a private, independent search engine that serves fast, accurate results from its own independent index of the Web, with AI answers and zero profiling. It doesn't collect personal data, so it can't share, sell, or lose it.
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