Brave Search API Pricing Change — May 2026
Brave Search API Pricing Change — May 2026
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May 19, 2026 Price decrease AI Search APIs

Brave Search API lowers top-tier pricing 83.3% to $5/per 1K queries in May 2026

On May 19, 2026, Brave Search API lowered its top plan from $30/per 1K queries to $5/per 1K queries (83.3% lower).

Before & after

Before
$30
Range: Free – $30
3 plans
After
$5
Range: $4 – $5
3 plans
Top-tier change -83.3% $30 → $5/per 1K queries

Current price (live)

Today's range
$4 – $5/per 1K queries
Plans
3
Last verified
May 19, 2026
See Brave Search API pricing →

How we detected this

This change was flagged by our agent-driven pricing pipeline on May 19, 2026. We continuously re-extract each product's public pricing page and compare against our last verified snapshot; when we detect a real price movement, a second validation layer confirms the change before it's published here. See our methodology for more.

Source

brave.com Official Brave Search API pricing page

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