Overview
The Brave Search API is the #1 most-used solution for connecting large language models (LLMs) to the open web. With the Brave Search MCP server, developers can seamlessly integrate real-time web search into AI agents and applications quickly, securely, and at scale.
Brave offers flexible pricing plans to meet a range of needs from a free tier ideal for hobby projects to robust enterprise options that support tens of millions of daily requests.
Features include the following:
- Web Search: general queries, news, articles, with pagination and freshness controls
- Local Search: find businesses, restaurants, and services with detailed information
- Flexible Filtering: Control result types, safety levels, and content freshness
- Smart Fallbacks: Local search automatically falls back to web when no results are found
Highlights
- World-class quality: Intelligent LLMs need access to high-quality web data to reduce hallucinations and provide relevant information.
- Flexible: Adapt results with different specialized endpoints, including local, images, AI summaries, Suggest, and Spellcheck.
- Comprehensive and fresh: The Brave Search index includes over 30 billion pages, kept fresh by over 100 million page updates every day.
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Brave Search MCP Server
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Container image
Containers are lightweight, portable execution environments that wrap server application software in a filesystem that includes everything it needs to run. Container applications run on supported container runtimes and orchestration services, such as Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Both eliminate the need for you to install and operate your own container orchestration software by managing and scheduling containers on a scalable cluster of virtual machines.
Version release notes
Changelog for v2.0.75
- Updated version ci: update build assets (v2.0.75)
Additional details
Usage instructions
The Brave Search MCP Server provides a powerful REST API proxy to access Brave Search capabilities through a standardized interface. This container allows you to integrate Brave's comprehensive search services into your AI applications, with features ranging from web search to image search and summarization.
Key Features
- Brave LLM Context API delivers pre-extracted, relevance-scored web content optimized for grounding LLM responses in real-time search results.
- Web search with comprehensive results and metadata
- Local business and location search
- Image and video search capabilities
- News search for current events and trending stories
- AI-optimized results with extra snippets
- Content summarization across search results
Usage and limits
- Cost: $5 CPM (cost per thousand) / $0.005 per request
- Rate: Maximum of 50 requests per second
- Volume: Unlimited requests
Getting started
Prerequisites
- Brave Search API Key: Create an AWS Marketplace Subscription for Brave Search API
- Container Configuration: Configure your MCP Server with the required environment variables
Container Configuration
Environment Variables
"environmentVariables": { "BRAVE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_BRAVE_API_KEY>", "BRAVE_MCP_TRANSPORT": "http", , "BRAVE_MCP_STATELESS": "true", "BRAVE_MCP_PORT": "8000", "BRAVE_MCP_HOST": "0.0.0.0" }}'Network Configuration
"networkConfiguration": { "networkMode": "PUBLIC" }Protocol Configuration
"protocolConfiguration": { "serverProtocol": "MCP" }Example
Performs general web searches with rich metadata. Best for general information queries, research, and finding diverse content types.
Example
{ "query": "climate change solutions", "count": 10, "extra_snippets": true }Reference documentation for additional endpoints:
Best Practices
- Use specific queries to get more relevant results
- Leverage extra_snippets for AI applications that need more context
- Use appropriate result_filter values to focus on specific content types
- Consider safesearch settings based on your application's audience
- Utilize the summarizer for efficient information extraction
Support
For detailed API documentation, visit the Brave Search API Documentation . For all general inquiries and support, please contact us at searchapi-support@brave.com .
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Vendor support
In order to leverage using MCP Server, please do the following:
- Sign up for a Brave Search API account (https://brave.com/search/api/ )
- Choose a plan (Free tier available with 2,000 queries/month)
- Generate your API key from the developer dashboard
For all general inquiries and support, please contact us at searchapi-support@brave.com .
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