# Brave Search: what AI models say (September 2026)

Source: Memetik Index, https://www.memetik.ai/vendors/brave-search
Website: https://scrapegraphai.com

Brave Search was named in 42 of 50 AI answers across 1 category. Best position: Web search and scraping APIs for AI, 84% answer share, ranked #4, named first in 8%.

## What Brave Search is

Brave Search is a search API built on Brave’s own crawler and index. It is for chatbots that need source citations and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines that need fresh pages.

It provides web, news, image, video and place search, alongside autosuggest, spellcheck, a summariser, an LLM Context endpoint and Answers. Requests authenticate through an X-Subscription-Token header.

Pricing: Search costs $5 per 1,000 requests; Answers costs $4 per 1,000 requests plus token charges; Enterprise pricing is custom.
(From Brave Search's own website, read 2026-09-02.)

## By category

| Category | Rank | Answer share | Named first | Models |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web search and scraping APIs for AI (https://www.memetik.ai/index/ai-search-apis) | #4 of 17 | 84% | 8% | GPT-5.6 Sol, ChatGPT, GPT-5.6 Luna, Claude Opus 5, Claude, Claude Fable 5, Gemini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity, Sonar Reasoning Pro |

## What the models said

> "Choose Brave Search plus Firecrawl when you want control Use Brave to find pages, then selectively pass the best URLs to Firecrawl."
> — GPT-5.6 Sol, Web search and scraping APIs for AI

> "Choose Brave if you want a conservative, general-purpose search layer with broad web access."
> — Perplexity, Web search and scraping APIs for AI

> "Bottom line: start with Tavily if speed of development matters most; choose Brave Search + Firecrawl if you’re building a serious, controllable production agent."
> — GPT-5.6 Luna, Web search and scraping APIs for AI

> "If cost/scale at high volume matters more than convenience, Serper + your own scraper or Brave Search API are cheaper long-term."
> — Claude, Web search and scraping APIs for AI