Brave launches AI Grounding with the Brave Search API, a game-changer for AI applications. This new feature connects AI outputs to verified web data, delivering accurate and reliable answers. It reduces errors in large language models (LLMs) and handles complex queries with ease. Already powering over 15 million daily queries on Brave Search, AI Grounding sets a new standard for AI performance.
Brave Search API: Top Performance and Easy Access

AI Grounding achieves a 94.1% F1-score on the SimpleQA benchmark, showcasing state-of-the-art results. It supports Brave’s Answer with AI feature and will soon enhance Research-mode in Brave Search and Brave Leo. The Brave Search API powers most top 10 LLMs, often as their sole search engine index.
- Availability: Accessible via Free, Base, Pro, or custom AI plans.
- AI Grounding Plan: Costs $4 per 1,000 web searches plus $5 per million tokens. Offers single-search or advanced Research mode.
- Pro AI Plan: Includes AI Grounding via existing openapi-compliant endpoint, with no price change.
- Performance: Single-search responses stream in under 4.5 seconds. Multi-search handles complex queries with 94.9% accuracy.
- Benchmark Edge: Outperforms competitors like Perplexity (85.5% F1) and Tavily (93.3% Acc*) on SimpleQA.
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Brave’s single-search system is fast and cost-efficient, while multi-search excels for high-accuracy tasks. Most SimpleQA questions resolve with one query, analyzing 210 unique pages in 24.2 seconds on average. Unlike Google and Bing, Brave offers an independent, scalable search API. This avoids supply-chain risks from scraping, especially as Microsoft recently shut down Bing’s API. Brave’s solution is cost-effective and robust for businesses, ensuring reliable AI integration.
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