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Brave Search API

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

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Model-agnostic
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Jun 7, 2026

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.

Capabilities 2

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • Unified search (primary capability)
  • Cited answers (secondary capability)

Pros & cons

  • Independent index, not resold Bing/Google
  • Privacy-respecting, no user profiling
  • Free tier available
  • Simple REST API
  • Smaller index than Google
  • Rate limits on free tier
  • Less tuned for AI-answer grounding than Exa/Tavily

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    Exa

    Exa Labs

    Neural search API. Find pages by meaning, not keywords.

    Semantic search engine that indexes the open web with embeddings — pass a description, get matching pages. Strong for research-style queries and find-similar workflows; formerly known as Metaphor.

    Semantic 'find pages like this' retrieval
    Index narrower than Google-scale crawlers
    • semantic-search
    • neural
    • research
    • api
  • View Tavily details
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    Tavily

    Tavily

    Web search API built for LLM agents and RAG pipelines.

    Search-as-a-tool for LLM agents — returns scrape-friendly results tuned for retrieval rather than ranking. Native integrations across LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, and the major agent surfaces.

    Retrieval-tuned, scrape-ready results
    Not a general consumer search
    • search-api
    • agents
    • rag
    • tool-use
  • View You.com details
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    You.com

    You.com

    Multi-model AI search and enterprise research agents.

    You.com is an AI search and answers product offering multi-model chat over OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google models on web and mobile. It has shifted toward enterprise with ARI, a research agent that synthesizes cited reports across hundreds of sources, alongside Search and Research APIs for developers.

    Multi-model chat (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google)
    Consumer focus de-emphasized
    • ai-search
    • research-agent
    • multi-model
    • api
  • View Kagi details
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    Kagi

    Kagi

    Paid, ad-free search engine with a built-in multi-model AI assistant.

    Kagi is a subscription-based, ad-free search engine that puts result quality and privacy ahead of advertising. Every paid plan now includes Kagi Assistant, which lets you chat with leading models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, and others against a fair-use token budget. Kagi also ships features like the Universal Summarizer and customizable result ranking.

    Ad-free, no tracking or data selling
    Paid only — no free search tier
    • search-engine
    • ad-free
    • privacy
    • multi-model