| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Provider | Brave |
| Category | search |
| Offer status | available |
| Deal type | free |
| What is free | $5 in free credits every month, auto-applied (~1,000 queries on the base Search plan), 50 QPS capacity. The same $5/month credit also applies to the newer Answers plan ($4 per 1,000 requests + $5 per million input/output tokens, 2 QPS). |
| Access barrier | credit-card |
| How you get a credential | payment-card (inferred from the access barrier) |
| Agent-usable | True |
| Evidence | documented |
| Confidence | verified |
| Last verified | 2026-09-16 |
| Source | https://brave.com/search/api/ |
| Caveats | card required for anti-fraud identity check (not charged on free usage). Re-read first-party 2026-09-16 and holds. Note the Answers plan's capacity is 2 QPS against Search's 50 — the credit is the same size but buys far less throughput, so an agent that switches plans for the grounded-answer format loses 25x its query rate. |
No measured example — this row is evidence: documented: it states what the provider's own page advertised on the date shown, and this worker holds no credential to call it. The provider's documentation is the source: https://brave.com/search/api/
Rendered 2026-10-05 17:57 UTC. Machine-readable: ai-deals.json.