Brave AI

Brave AI means private, user-first AI. It can help you answer questions and discover new info; automate and complete tasks; and power your own AI experiences. Use Brave AI to find, do, and build almost anything online.

Find anything, with Ask Brave

Looking for something? Got a simple question or a deep research task? Try Ask Brave, the AI chat built into Brave Search.

Brave Search is the world’s most complete non-Big Tech search engine, and the only independent search with privacy at its core. The Ask feature synthesizes content from billions of webpages to create AI-powered answers, right in the search results page.

Brave Search answers more than 50 million user queries per day. With about ⅓ of those queries triggering an AI summary, Brave Search is by volume the most widely used answer engine in the world.

Use cases:

  • Synthesize content from multiple webpages in a single, concise answer
  • Get summaries about people and places, news and sports, coding, research, and more

Differentiators:

  • Private, accurate AI-powered answers, right in the SERP
  • Very low latency, no profiling
  • Always cites its sources
  • Free of Big Tech
  • Available on desktop & mobile
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Create content & complete tasks, with Brave Leo

Leo is Brave’s smart, privacy-first AI assistant, built right into the browser.

Brave Leo makes every webpage interactive. Summarize pages you’re reading or videos you’re watching; analyze spreadsheets, docs, and PDFs, videos; translate content, or even create new content.

Leo doesn’t retain or share chats, or use them for model training. No account or login is required.

Choose from pre-installed models, including the latest from Claude, DeepSeek, Gemma, Llama, and Qwen. Or bring your own models.

Use cases:

  • Analyze webpages, PDFs, images, Google Docs and Sheets, and more
  • Generate new content
  • Summarize multiple open webpages and tabs in the same chat
  • Translate content

Differentiators:

  • Private
  • Available right in the browser
  • No account or login required
  • Available on desktop & mobile

This table examines default configurations on individual, non-enterprise accounts/plans.

  Retains chats on servers Trains models on user chats Retains user IP address in chat requests
Brave Leo Brave Leo No No No
Duck.ai Duck.ai Yes1 No No
Perplexity Comet Perplexity Comet Yes Yes Yes
Google Gemini Google Gemini Yes2 Yes Yes
OpenAI ChatGPT OpenAI ChatGPT Yes Yes Yes
Microsoft Copilot Microsoft Copilot Yes3 Yes Yes
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Power your own AI with the Brave Search API

Power your AI with the world’s largest Web search API. Create search tools, train foundational models, build chatbots, and more.

Brave Search is the world’s most complete non-Big Tech search engine. It has an index of over 30 billion pages, with millions of new pages indexed each day. This real-time, well-structured data is available at affordable CPM.

Features multiple endpoints across Web, AI grounding, image & video, news, suggest, and spellcheck.

Use cases:

  • LLM context
  • Give chatbots and agents access to real-time data
  • Train foundational models
  • RAG pipelines
  • MCP use cases
  • Build search-enabled tools like CRMs

Differentiators:

  • Powered by an independent index of over 35 billion pages
  • Not a scraper or aggregator
  • Refreshed daily for real-time results
  • Transparent, affordable pricing
  • Consistent data structuring
  • Trusted by some of the biggest names in AI in search
Web LLM Context Answers Image Video News Suggest Spellcheck
 1#!/usr/bin/env python
 2
 3import requests
 4
 5print(
 6    requests.get(
 7        "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search",
 8        headers={
 9            "X-Subscription-Token": "<BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY>",
10        },
11        params={
12            "q": "greek restaurants in san francisco",
13            "count": 20,
14            "country": "us",
15            "search_lang": "en",
16        },
17    ).json()
18)
JSON
 1{
 2    "type": "search",
 3    "web": {
 4        "type": "search",
 5        "results": [
 6            {
 7                "title": "THE 10 BEST Greek Restaurants in San Francisco (Updated 2025)",
 8                "url": "https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurants-g60713-c23-San_Francisco_California.html",
 9                "is_source_local": false,
10                "is_source_both": false,
11                "description": "Best <strong>Greek</strong> <strong>Restaurants</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong>, California: Find Tripadvisor traveller reviews of <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong> <strong>Greek</strong> <strong>restaurants</strong> and search by price, location, and more.",
12                "profile": {
13                    "name": "Tripadvisor",
14                    "url": "https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurants-g60713-c23-San_Francisco_California.html",
15                    "long_name": "tripadvisor.com",
16                    "img": "https://imgs.search.brave.com/OEuNbeVBPVl2AlxDmpKDNcYk4RuERMK4gTlMyVzbpSw/rs:fit:32:32:1:0/g:ce/aHR0cDovL2Zhdmlj/b25zLnNlYXJjaC5i/cmF2ZS5jb20vaWNv/bnMvZjQ1MjliOWZi/NmMxZWRhYmY2MmYy/MmNjMmM0ZWM3MTA4/ZTUxM2E1M2JlMzgx/ODM0N2E2NzY5OTJk/YjQwNmNlNi93d3cu/dHJpcGFkdmlzb3Iu/Y29tLw"
17                }
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Get safer automation, with Brave's agentic AI

Like many browsers, Brave has an agent mode. But unlike other agentic experiences, Brave’s has strict safeguards built in to safeguard against unintended actions or exposure to security risks.

Brave’s browser agent is only available in the Brave Nightly channel, and even then it’s off by default. An additional feature flag must be enabled before the experience can be used.

This explicit invoking can help ensure users get what they want from an agent, and not what they don’t want. That means help with automating tasks, while still safeguarding against unintended actions and exposure to website security flaws.

Use cases:

  • Automate online shopping
  • Automate product & pricing comparisons
  • Website research
  • Automate content generation like emails and social media posts
  • Build schedules for work, school, or personal life
  • Create study guides based on written, audio, or video content
  • Look up recipes, and add ingredients to a shopping cart

Differentiators:

  • Isolated browsing profile to ensure agent can't access other open tabs or windows
  • Opt-in only
  • Guardrails against malicious sites and prompt-injection attacks
  • Only available in the Brave Nightly channel
  • Requires explicit consent before agent can complete an action
  • No login or account required
Read more about private agentic browsing
Footnotes
  1. Duck.ai retains user chats for at most 30 days 

  2. Gemini retains chats for 18 months - 36 months 

  3. Copilot retains chats for up to 18 months 

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