Easy, private AI

Brave offers free, simple, private AI for users of any ability. It's also powering many of the most widely used AI and search experiences on the Web today via the Brave Search API.

Ask Brave

Brave Search is the world’s most complete non-Big Tech search engine, and the only independent search with privacy at its core. Its “Ask Brave” feature synthesizes content from billions of webpages to create AI-powered answers, right in the search results page.

Brave Search gets more than 50 million user queries per day. With millions of those queries triggering an AI answer, Brave Search is by volume one of the most widely used answer engines in the world.

Use cases:

  • Synthesize content from multiple webpages in a single, concise answer
  • Get summaries about people and places, news and sports, coding, research, and more

Differentiators:

  • Private, accurate AI-powered answers, right in the SERP
  • Very low latency, no tracking
  • Always cites its sources
  • Free of Big Tech
  • Available on desktop & mobile
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Brave Leo AI

Brave Leo is the smart AI assistant built right into the browser. Ask questions, summarize pages, create new content, and more. Privately.

Brave Leo makes every page interactive. You can chat about topics related to the pages you’re reading, videos you’re watching, and more. It can analyze, translate, and even create new content.

Leo doesn’t retain or share chats, or use them for model training. No account or login is required, and you can bring your own models. Also note that Leo—like all of our AI features—is completely optional, so Brave users can easily stick to a non-AI browsing experience.

Use cases:

  • Analyze webpages, PDFs, images, Google Docs and Sheets, and more
  • Generate new content
  • Summarize multiple open webpages and tabs in the same chat

Differentiators:

  • Private
  • Available right in the browser
  • No account or login required
  • Available on desktop & mobile

This table examines default configurations on individual, non-enterprise accounts/plans.

  Retains chats on servers Trains models on user chats Retains user IP address in chat requests
Brave Leo Brave Leo No No No
Duck.ai Duck.ai Yes1 No No
Perplexity Comet Perplexity Comet Yes Yes Yes
Google Gemini Google Gemini Yes2 Yes Yes
OpenAI ChatGPT OpenAI ChatGPT Yes Yes Yes
Microsoft Copilot Microsoft Copilot Yes3 Yes Yes
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Brave Search API

Power your AI with the world’s largest Web search API. Create search tools, train foundational models, build chatbots, and more.

Brave Search is the world’s most complete non-Big Tech search engine. It has an index of over 30 billion pages, with millions of new pages indexed each day. This real-time, well-structured data is available at affordable CPM.

Features multiple endpoints across Web, AI grounding, image & video, news, suggest, and spellcheck.

Use cases:

  • Power agentic search
  • Train foundational models
  • RAG pipelines
  • Apps that use Claude MCP
  • Build search-enabled tools like CRMs

Differentiators:

  • Index of over 30 billion pages
  • Refreshed daily for real-time results
  • Transparent, affordable pricing
  • Consistent data structuring
  • Trusted by some of the biggest names in AI in search
Web AI Grounding Image Video News Suggest Spellcheck
 1#!/usr/bin/env python
 2
 3import requests
 4
 5print(
 6    requests.get(
 7        "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search",
 8        headers={
 9            "X-Subscription-Token": "<BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY>",
10        },
11        params={
12            "q": "greek restaurants in san francisco",
13            "count": 20,
14            "country": "us",
15            "search_lang": "en",
16        },
17    ).json()
18)
JSON
 1{
 2    "type": "search",
 3    "web": {
 4        "type": "search",
 5        "results": [
 6            {
 7                "title": "THE 10 BEST Greek Restaurants in San Francisco (Updated 2025)",
 8                "url": "https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurants-g60713-c23-San_Francisco_California.html",
 9                "is_source_local": false,
10                "is_source_both": false,
11                "description": "Best <strong>Greek</strong> <strong>Restaurants</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong>, California: Find Tripadvisor traveller reviews of <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong> <strong>Greek</strong> <strong>restaurants</strong> and search by price, location, and more.",
12                "profile": {
13                    "name": "Tripadvisor",
14                    "url": "https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurants-g60713-c23-San_Francisco_California.html",
15                    "long_name": "tripadvisor.com",
16                    "img": "https://imgs.search.brave.com/OEuNbeVBPVl2AlxDmpKDNcYk4RuERMK4gTlMyVzbpSw/rs:fit:32:32:1:0/g:ce/aHR0cDovL2Zhdmlj/b25zLnNlYXJjaC5i/cmF2ZS5jb20vaWNv/bnMvZjQ1MjliOWZi/NmMxZWRhYmY2MmYy/MmNjMmM0ZWM3MTA4/ZTUxM2E1M2JlMzgx/ODM0N2E2NzY5OTJk/YjQwNmNlNi93d3cu/dHJpcGFkdmlzb3Iu/Y29tLw"
17                }
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Footnotes
  1. Duck.ai retains user chats for at most 30 days 

  2. Gemini retains chats for 18 months - 36 months 

  3. Copilot retains chats for up to 18 months 

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