Brave
Brave Software builds a privacy-first Chromium-based browser, an independent search engine (Brave Search), an in-browser AI assistant (Leo), a video conferencing product (Brave Talk), an opt-in attention economy (Brave Rewards / Basic Attention Token), a wallet (Brave Wallet), and a privacy advertising platform (Brave Ads). Developer-facing APIs are concentrated in the Brave Search API (api.search.brave.com), which exposes web, news, image, video, suggest, spellcheck, summarizer, and local POI endpoints authenticated via X-Subscription-Token. Browser code is open source under MPL-2.0 on GitHub.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Brave the way a machine reads it — 34 machine-readable artifacts across 26 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Brave scores 36.9/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Brave
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Brave. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 26
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Brave Browser
Privacy-first Chromium-based browser for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS, with built-in tracker and ad blocking (Brave Shields), HTTPS upgrades, Global Privacy Control, ...
Brave Search
Independent privacy-respecting web search engine backed by Brave's own index. Surfaces the consumer product at search.brave.com and powers the Brave Search API.
Brave Search API - Web Search
REST endpoint for general web search results with country, language, safe-search, and freshness filtering. Authenticated via X-Subscription-Token header.
Brave Search API - Image Search
Image search endpoint returning images with metadata, thumbnails, and SafeSearch filtering.
Brave Search API - Video Search
Video search endpoint returning videos with thumbnails, duration, and source metadata.
Brave Search API - News Search
Real-time news search endpoint returning articles from trusted sources with freshness filtering.
Brave Search API - Suggest
Autosuggest endpoint that returns query completions for a partial input.
Brave Search API - Spellcheck
Spelling correction endpoint for refining noisy or misspelled user queries.
Brave Search API - Summarizer
AI summarizer endpoint that condenses search results into a generated summary for use in agentic and AI-grounded applications.
Brave Search API - Local POIs
Local search endpoint returning point-of-interest details given IDs surfaced by web search results.
Brave Search API - Local Descriptions
AI-generated descriptions for local points of interest, complementing the Local POIs endpoint.
Brave Search MCP Server
Model Context Protocol server wrapping the Brave Search API so AI agents can ground answers in real-time web results.
Brave Leo AI
In-browser AI assistant offering chat, summarization, translation, and content generation grounded in the page or tab the user is viewing. Surfaced inside the browser; not a pub...
Brave Talk
End-to-end encrypted video conferencing product, available free with premium tier for larger meetings.
Brave Rewards
Opt-in attention rewards program paying users in Basic Attention Token (BAT) for viewing privacy-preserving ads, and enabling tipping of verified creators.
Brave Ads
Privacy-respecting advertising platform for advertisers that targets anonymized cohorts inside the Brave browser and on Brave Search.
Brave Wallet
Native multi-chain crypto wallet built into the Brave browser. Supports EVM and Solana networks; integrates with WalletConnect and dApps.
Brave Images API
The Images API from Brave — 1 operation(s) for images.
Brave Local API
The Local API from Brave — 2 operation(s) for local.
Brave News API
The News API from Brave — 1 operation(s) for news.
Brave Spellcheck API
The Spellcheck API from Brave — 1 operation(s) for spellcheck.
Brave Suggest API
The Suggest API from Brave — 1 operation(s) for suggest.
Brave Summarizer API
The Summarizer API from Brave — 1 operation(s) for summarizer.
Brave Videos API
The Videos API from Brave — 1 operation(s) for videos.
Brave Web API
The Web API from Brave — 1 operation(s) for web.
Brave News
Privacy-preserving news feed integrated into the browser's new tab page, sourced from a curated set of publisher feeds.
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Brave Search API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Brave Browser Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Brave Browser Finops
FINOPSSecurity Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Brave — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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