Brave Search API pricing: search autocomplete API
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- FreeAutosuggest (free monthly credits)$0.00 per 1,000
- Top-up from $5Autosuggest (prepaid credits)$0.50 per 1,000
- Contact usEnterprise
GET / res/ v1/ suggest/ search Brave Search API's only call for this APIAbout this item
- Live. Brave Search API reads the search engine's suggestions when you call the API.
- 3 of the 4 key fields we check. Type, Description, Image.
- Nothing to pay. You get $5 of credit a month, enough for 10,000 calls. Unused credit expires each month.
- One call. You send
qtoGET /. You can also sendres/ v1/ suggest/ search lang,country,count,rich,api-version,cache-controlanduser-agent. The call returns the searches the search engine suggests for the query. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.
Brave Search API: search autocomplete API alternatives
Brave Search API alternatives: every search autocomplete API provider ranked
The table starts with Brave Search API's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 queries closest to Brave Search API's. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| Brave Search API, top-up from $5 | Omkar Cloud, $48 monthly, Grow Plan, GET /google-news/autocomplete | Autom, $1,250 pack | OpenWeb Ninja, $150 monthly | ChocoData, $100 monthly, Custom $100, POST /api/v1/{site}/batch | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 queries | $0.50 | $0.48 | $0.50 | $0.50 | $0.50 |
| Completeness | 75% | 25% | 0% | 50% | 0% |
| Billing | pay first | monthly | pay first | monthly | monthly |
| Pay | $5 | $48 | $1,250 | $150 | $100 |
| Enough for | 10,000 calls | 100,000 calls a month | 2,500,000 calls | 300,000 calls a month | 200,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone with a credit card | anyone aged 18 or over who is not in a country under a United States embargo or on a United States list of prohibited or restricted parties | professionals: the service is ordered for a trade, business, craft or profession, by someone at least 18 and able to contract | anyone, a minor with a parent's permission | anyone |
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.
- api-dashboard.search.brave.com/api-reference/other/suggestions/index.html.md
- api-dashboard.search.brave.com/api-reference/web/search/get
- api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation/web-search/get-started
- api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/guides/rate-limiting
- api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing
- api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/resources/help-feedback
- api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/resources/terms-of-service
- api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/services/suggest/index.html.md
- brave.com/search/api/
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Type
- Relevance, not in the answer
- Description
- Image
| $ per 1,000 queries | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Most per search | 20 |
|---|---|
| Also pays for | from the same budget: Spellcheck |
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
|---|
| Their pitch | Real-time query autocompletion and suggestions to enhance search experiences |
|---|
| 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." |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | $5 a month |
| Enough for | 10,000 calls a month |
| Expires | month |
| Per second | 100 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
|---|
| You send | q. Optional: lang, country, count, rich, api-version, cache-control, user-agent |
|---|---|
| Method | GET |
| Path | /res/v1/suggest/search |
| Plan | Autosuggest (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 8 fields the plan's answer can hold
response type, original query, suggestion query, suggestion type, suggestion is entity, suggestion entity name, suggestion entity description, suggestion entity image URL