Brave Search
A 30B+ page search index built independently, spanning news, video, image and web verticals.
Where Brave Search lands
Composite scores out of 10, from benchmark runs where every provider faces the identical task corpus. Rank is within that capability's field; the newest run backing this page is 2026-09-14. Full method: how we measure.
- Recall@10
- 0.66
- Latency p50
- 679 ms
- Cost
- $0.0076 / useful result
- Errors
- 0%
The honest pitch
Pick it when independence from Google and Bing matters, along with a privacy posture and grounding for AI.
Skip it when a single query has to return more than roughly 200 results.
About Brave Search
Brave Search runs one of the market’s few truly independent indexes, assembled by Brave’s own crawler — north of 30 billion pages — rather than repackaging Google or Bing. Independence pairs here with a firm privacy stance and usage rights framed for AI: a Summarizer is included, along with a token-efficient context endpoint, both aimed at grounding models in fresh, citable material. Where a team wants a serious alternative to the duopoly in search — out of principle, resilience, or the wish to differentiate a product — this is the standout candidate.
Reaching it through NativePort
Identical paths, parameters and responses to Brave Search's own documentation — the gateway holds the upstream credential and meters your balance at Brave Search's real published usage price.
curl https://api.nativeport.ai/brave/<native-path> \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $NATIVEPORT_API_KEY"