# Brave Search API, free: Image search API

> Search from a comprehensive index of images across the web with advanced filtering options

Brave Search API's image search API on its Search (free monthly credits) plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns all 5 key fields we check: Image, Size, Thumbnail, Page, Site.
We haven't run Brave Search API through [our image search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-image-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 376 plans for image search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.817 per 1,000 searches or less.
[SerpScraper.dev's $499 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/499-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.
[SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/39-monthly/llms.txt), [SerpKite](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpkite/300-pack-pro-post-v1-images-brave-images/llms.txt) and [Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10-usage-based-get-api-bing-images/llms.txt) are the best image search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/brave-search-api/free
- [Image search API: 16 providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-image-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/images/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/api-reference/images/image_search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Brave Search API (https://brave.com/search/api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Image: ✓
- Size: ✓
- Thumbnail: ✓
- Page: ✓
- Site: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 200
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Web search · LLM Context · News search · Video search

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search from a comprehensive index of images across the web with advanced filtering options

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: nothing stored, cached or put in a database, in whole or in part, but the transient storage an application needs, storing results needs a plan that includes storage rights, asked of searchapi-support@brave.com, nothing kept after the agreement ends
- Use data: "a limited, worldwide, revocable (as provided in this Agreement), non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-assignable, non-sublicensable license during the Term to (i) use the API and Documentation solely to develop, test, and integrate the API with, the Customer Applications, (ii) use the Search Results with the Customer Applications, and (iii) use and display the Provider’s Marks solely as provided herein." [...] "Customer shall not use the API, Search Results, Documentation or Provider’s Marks for any purposes beyond the scope of the license granted in this Agreement and the restrictions in this Section. Customer shall not and shall not permit End Users or others to: (i) store, cache, or create a database of Search Results, in whole or in part, other than transient storage required for operation of Customer Applications or related software, service or systems, (ii) create derivative works of the API, Documentation or Search Results, (iii) rent, lease, lend, sell, distribute, publish, sublicense, assign, transfer, or otherwise make available the API or Documentation to any third party, in whole or in part, (iv) reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, decode, adapt, or otherwise attempt to derive or gain access to any software component of, the API, in whole or in part, (v) circumvent or bypass rate limits or service limits through any method, including by creating multiple accounts, (vi) remove any proprietary notices from the API or Documentation, (vii) use the API or Search Results in any manner or for any purpose that infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates any intellectual property right or other right of any person, or that violates any applicable law, rule or regulation, (viii) use the API or Documentation in any manner that harms the Provider, including without limitation, Provider’s products, services, systems, infrastructure, brand, or goodwill, (ix) combine or integrate the API with any software, services, systems, technology or materials not authorized by Provider, other than Customer Applications, (x) use the API in Customer Applications to replicate or attempt to replace the functionality of the API, or circumvent use of the API, (xi) attempt to obfuscate or conceal Customer’s identity or the identity of the Customer Applications when requesting authorization to use the API, (xii) redistribute, resell, or sublicense the Search Results, (xiii) use the Search Results to create, evaluate, train, re-train, fine-tune, benchmark or otherwise improve artificial intelligence models or services offered by Customer or third parties, (xiv) upon expiration or termination of this Agreement, continue any further use of the API or Documentation or retain Documentation or Search Results in Customer’s possession and control, or (xv) use the API in connection with any spyware, adware, or other malicious programs or code, counterfeit goods, items subject to US embargo, unsolicited mass distribution of email, multi-level marketing, hate materials, hacking, surveillance, interception, or descrambling equipment, libelous, defamatory, obscene, abusive, or otherwise offensive content, stolen products, and items used for theft, hazardous material, or any illegal activities." [...] "Customer hereby grants Provider a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, sublicensable through multiple levels, royalty-free and fully paid, license during the Term to use Search Query Data for purposes of use with the API, providing the Search Results, and otherwise performing hereunder."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $5 a month
- Enough for: 1,000 calls a month
- Expires: month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 50
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: search_lang, country, safesearch, count, spellcheck, api-version, cache-control, user-agent
- Method: GET
- Path: /res/v1/images/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Search (free monthly credits)
- Who can get it: anyone with a credit card: it is checked with a $0 or $1 hold, refunded, and the prepay amount can be left at $0

## The 24 fields the plan's answer can hold

response type, original query, altered query, spellcheck off, strict safesearch warning, image result type, image result title, image result link, image result source domain, image result page fetched date, image result thumbnail, image result thumbnail width, image result thumbnail height, image result original, image result placeholder, image result original width, image result original height, image result URL scheme, image result URL network location, image result hostname, image result favicon, image result URL path, image result confidence, might be offensive

## Brave Search API's plans (3)

- [Brave Search API, free](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/brave-search-api/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Brave Search API, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/brave-search-api/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Brave Search API, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/brave-search-api/contact-us/llms.txt): 100% complete, live

## Brave Search API's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /res/v1/images/search`: [Brave Search API, free](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/brave-search-api/free/llms.txt)

## Brave Search API's APIs (5)

- [Brave Search API: image search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/brave-search-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Brave Search API: news API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/brave-search-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Brave Search API: search autocomplete API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/brave-search-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Brave Search API: video search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/brave-search-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Brave Search API: web search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/brave-search-api/free/llms.txt)

## Brave Search API: image search API alternatives

- [Pullbay, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/pullbay/9-monthly/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [SearchApi, $500 monthly, BigData Plan, Enhanced speed, GET /api/v1/search?engine=bing_images](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/searchapi/500-monthly-bigdata-plan-enhanced-speed-get-api-v1-search-engine-bing-images/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [GloryCloud, $5 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/glorycloud/5-monthly/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [OpenWeb Ninja, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/openweb-ninja/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

- https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/api-reference/images/image_search/index.html.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/api-reference/web/search/get?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation/web-search/get-started?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/guides/rate-limiting?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/resources/help-feedback?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/resources/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/services/image-search/index.html.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://brave.com/search/api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing