# Brave Search API, free, Search (free monthly credits), GET /res/v1/llm/context: Web search API

> Advanced Web search, with pre-extracted content that's optimized for AI agents, LLM grounding, and RAG pipelines.

Brave Search API's Search (free monthly credits) plan for the web search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. Brave Search API's docs list 2: Date, Text.
In [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt), the best plan from Brave Search API scores 45.3 out of 100. Brave Search API ranks 40th of 76 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 798 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.756 or less per 1,000 searches. [See the best free web search API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
[GadgetHumans's $15 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/gadgethumans/15-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches. GadgetHumans's $15 monthly plan covers up to 100,000 searches a day. [UAPI's CNY 24.90 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/uapi/cny-24-90-pack/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: about $3.72.
[Levirge's $29 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/levirge/29-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. Levirge's $29 monthly plan costs more up front than GadgetHumans's $15 monthly plan.
[ScrapeNest](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapenest/99-monthly-growth-post-v1-search-web-search/llms.txt), [Clawifi](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/clawifi/299-monthly/llms.txt) and [Desearch](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/desearch/top-up/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/brave-search-api/free-search-free-monthly-credits-get-res-v1-llm-context
- [Web search API in 2026: the best of 70+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/llm/context`
- API key: with the plan, on https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/api-reference/ai/llm_context/get?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Brave Search API (https://brave.com/search/api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Date: ✓
- Text: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 50
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Web search · News search · Video search · Image search

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Advanced Web search, with pre-extracted content that's optimized for AI agents, LLM grounding, and RAG pipelines.

## Data

- 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: country, search_lang, count, safesearch, spellcheck, operators, operators_fallback, maximum_number_of_urls, maximum_number_of_tokens, context_threshold_mode, maximum_number_of_tokens_per_url, goggles, freshness, enable_local, enable_source_metadata, x-loc-lat, x-loc-long, x-loc-city, x-loc-state, x-loc-state-name, x-loc-country, x-loc-postal-code, api-version, cache-control, user-agent
- Method: GET
- Path: /res/v1/llm/context

## 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 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, page title, extracted snippets, point of interest name, point of interest URL, point of interest title, point of interest snippets, map place name, map place URL, map place title, map place snippets, source hostname, page age, description, content fetched timestamp

## Brave Search API's plans (3)

- [Brave Search API, free, Search (free monthly credits), GET /res/v1/llm/context](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/brave-search-api/free-search-free-monthly-credits-get-res-v1-llm-context/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Brave Search API, top-up from $5, Search (prepaid credits), GET /res/v1/llm/context](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/brave-search-api/top-up-from-5-search-prepaid-credits-get-res-v1-llm-context/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Brave Search API, contact us, Enterprise, GET /res/v1/llm/context](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/brave-search-api/contact-us-enterprise-get-res-v1-llm-context/llms.txt): 33% complete

## Brave Search API's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /res/v1/llm/context`: [Brave Search API, free, Search (free monthly credits), GET /res/v1/llm/context](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/brave-search-api/free-search-free-monthly-credits-get-res-v1-llm-context/llms.txt)
- `GET /res/v1/web/search`: [Brave Search API, free, Search (free monthly credits), GET /res/v1/web/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/brave-search-api/free/llms.txt)

## Brave Search API's APIs (6)

- [Brave Search API: image search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/brave-search-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Brave Search API: local business search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-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, GET /res/v1/llm/context](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/brave-search-api/free-search-free-monthly-credits-get-res-v1-llm-context/llms.txt)

## Brave Search API: web search API alternatives

- [AnyCrawler, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anycrawler/20-monthly/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [DataGait, $5 monthly, Subscription, POST /search, Search, balanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/datagait/5-monthly-subscription-post-search-search-balanced/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Search1API, top-up from $5, Pay as you go, POST /ask](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-post-ask/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Parallel, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search (advanced)](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/parallel/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-search-advanced/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, stored
- [Agent Data Workers, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/agent-data-workers/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, 10 minutes

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

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