Brave Search API for AI agents: web, news, images and places

    Give Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Codex the Brave Search API: web results from Brave's independent index, news, images, videos, local places and source passages to ground an answer. You don't need a Brave account, plan or API key. Your agent pays per search from your Agensi balance, next to every other tool on Agensi.

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    Use any of these from your AI Agent, with no API key. Your AI Agent works out the exact price, runs the tool from your balance and tells you what it cost. Failed uses are free.

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    All Brave Search tools and prices

    • Get Brave LLM context

      $0.0065 per call

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      Proven · 100% success

      Find extracted passages with source URLs for grounding an answer.

    • Search images with Brave

      $0.0065 per call

      Data
      Proven · 100% success

      Find image URLs, thumbnails and source pages.

    • Search news with Brave

      $0.0065 per call

      Data
      Proven · 100% success

      Find recent news articles in Brave's news index.

    • Search places with Brave

      $0.0065 per call

      Data
      Proven · 100% success

      Find businesses, landmarks and other points of interest.

    • Search videos with Brave

      $0.0065 per call

      Data
      Proven · 100% success

      Find videos with titles, URLs, metadata and thumbnails.

    • Get Brave place descriptions

      $0.0065 per call

      Data
      Proven

      Retrieve generated descriptions for place IDs returned by Brave search.

    • Get Brave place details

      $0.0065 per call

      Data
      Proven

      Retrieve rich details for place IDs returned by Brave search.

    • Search the web with Brave

      $0.0065 per call

      Data
      59% success

      Search Brave's independent web index for ranked pages and rich results.

    Starting prices. Prices can vary with length and quality. Your AI Agent works out the exact price, runs the tool from your balance and tells you what it cost. Failed uses are free.

    What do you want your agent to do?

    • Ground an answer

      Passages from relevant pages with their source URLs, so your agent answers from sources.

    • Search the web

      Ranked pages and rich results from Brave's independent index.

    • Get recent news

      Articles from Brave's news index on a topic, person or company.

    • Find local places

      Businesses and points of interest, then details and descriptions for the ones you pick.

    • Find images or videos

      Image URLs with thumbnails and source pages; a separate tool finds videos.

    How to choose the best Brave Search tool or MCP for you

    Links or passages

    Web search returns ranked links and snippets. LLM context returns passages with source URLs, so your agent can answer without opening every page.

    Freshness

    For anything dated, use the news search and ask your agent to give the date of each result.

    Local results

    Place search finds businesses and landmarks. Place details and descriptions take the place IDs it returns, so run them only for the places you want.

    If you needChooseToday's price
    A sourced answer to one questionBrave LLM context
    Ranked links for a queryBrave web search
    This week's news on a companyBrave news search
    Shops or venues in an areaBrave place search, then place details
    Pictures on a topicBrave image search
    Clips on a topicBrave video search

    Quick picks: LLM context for answers with sources, news search for anything recent, place search for local results.

    Brave's own MCP server or Agensi?

    Brave publishes its own MCP server, which runs on your own Brave Search API key and plan. With Agensi your agent gets Brave's web, news, image, video, place and LLM context searches without a Brave key, on the same connection as scraping, social and company data tools, paid per search from one balance. Your agent runs a search from your balance and tells you what it found and what it cost. Failed searches are free.

    What you getOfficial MCP per brandOwn API key or community serverAgensi
    AccountsOne per brandOne per brandOne
    API keysPer brand, or a sign-inPer brand, kept by youNone
    PaymentA plan or credits per brandPer brandOne balance, per use
    Spending controlVariesUp to youLimits per use, day and month, or ask first
    Several sources in one answerConnect several serversSeveral servers and keysOne connection
    Skills for the whole jobNoNoYes, from the marketplace

    When another way is the better choice. Brave's own MCP server is the better choice if you run searches at high volume on one Brave plan, or want features we don't list, such as Brave's summarizer. Agensi fits when Brave is one of several tools your agent uses, or you'd rather not manage another key.

    Set up in your AI agent

    Connect your AI agent to Agensi once, sign in and click Allow. After that it can use every tool: it runs one from your balance and tells you what it cost. No API keys or provider accounts.

    1. Open Settings, then Connectors, then Browse connectors and add Agensi (or Add custom connector and paste https://mcp.agensi.io/mcp/auth).
    2. Sign in to Agensi and click Allow. One agent per account: connecting a new one disconnects the old one.
    3. Ask for what you want, for example: "Find this week's news about e-bike import tariffs in the US, then give me a short sourced summary of the current rules with links." Top up from $5 if your balance is low; failed uses are free.

    Grok, VS Code, GitHub Copilot, Cline, Kiro and other agents with remote MCP and sign-in work too: see the setup guide.

    What it costs: a worked example

    "Find this week's news about e-bike import tariffs in the US, then give me a short sourced summary of the current rules with links."

    • 1 × Search this week's news

    • 2 × Get source passages for two questions

    Your agent works out the exact price for your request and tells you what it cost.

    Combine Brave Search tools with skills

    Brave Search MCP: frequently asked questions

    Yes. The tools search Brave's independent index through the Brave Search API, run on our account. Agensi isn't made by Brave. Brave also publishes an MCP server that needs your own Brave Search API key; with Agensi you don't need one, and Brave sits next to our other tools on one connection.

    No. Connect your agent to Agensi once, top up your balance and ask in plain words, for example 'Search the news for our brand this week and list the links.' Your agent picks the Brave tool, runs it from your balance and tells you what it cost. You never create a Brave account.

    Each Brave tool shows its live price on this page, charged per search. Your agent runs it from your balance and tells you what it cost. In Dashboard → Balance you can have it ask first, or only above an amount per use and per day. Failed searches are free.

    Brave fits when you want results from an independent index, plus news, images or local places from the same source. For other kinds of results, such as written answers or full page text, compare Exa and Tavily on their own pages. Our web search page puts them side by side by job.

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