Feb 24, 2026
The Brave Search API has seen exponential growth, emerging as the only independent, commercially available search API at scale—and the best option for powering AI apps.
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Brave launches the LLM Context API, the most powerful search API for AI to date. With Brave's grounding data, cheaper open-weight models beat ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode.
Read this articleFeb 3, 2026
Brave Search API is now integrated into Snowflake, enabling agentic web search for enterprise AI tools like Cortex Code and Cortex Agents.
Read this articleAug 5, 2025
With AI Grounding, responses are anchored in high-quality, factual information from verifiable Web sources, thus reducing hallucinations and responding more appropriately to nuanced inputs.
Read this articleJul 16, 2025
Brave Search API available in the new AI Agents and Tools category of AWS Marketplace, providing real-time Web data for AI, LLMs, and search applications.
Read this articleFeb 26, 2025
Last year we launched Brave Search Ads in multiple countries. Today we share an update and upcoming plans for expansion.
Read this articleJan 23, 2025
Today we're excited to announce Rerank, a simple yet powerful feature to customize search rankings by boosting or removing domains from search results.
Read this articleNov 21, 2024
This new feature offers the option to ask follow-up questions from the basis of an initial query to Brave Search.
Read this articleJan 10, 2024
CodeLLM is aimed at programming queries, combining the depth and quality of search results with the summarization and explainability power of large language models.
Read this articleMay 30, 2023
Today, Brave is excited to announce the release of the Brave Search API, making the backbone of Brave Search available to companies and developers worldwide…
Read this articleApr 27, 2023
Every Web search result seen in Brave Search is now served by our own index. We've removed all search API calls to Bing.
Read this articleMar 2, 2023
The Summarizer provides concise answers at the top of Brave Search results pages, solely based on Web search results.
Read this articleJun 22, 2022
Private, independent search engine exits beta phase on its first anniversary, with innovative features that help users de-Google their search
Read this articleApr 20, 2022
Brave is announcing an exciting new feature of Brave Search. It's called Discussions, and it’s now available on desktop and mobile.
Read this articleOct 19, 2021
Starting today, new Brave users will have the search functionality in the Brave browser powered by Brave Search, giving them the privacy and independence of a search/browser alternative to Big Tech.
Read this articleJun 22, 2021
Starting today, users have a new independent option for search which gives them unmatched privacy. Brave Search is built on top of a completely independent index, and doesn’t track users, their searches, or their clicks.
Read this articleMar 3, 2021
Today Brave announced the acquisition of Tailcat, the open search engine developed by the team formerly responsible for the privacy search and browser products at Cliqz, a holding of Hubert Burda Media. Tailcat will become the foundation of Brave Search.
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