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Brave Search

Search & Web Remote Official Top 100 ★ 11,574 8 tools

Search the web with Brave's independent index — web, news, images, and videos. Bring your own subscription token from the [Brave Search API dashboard](https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com).

Connect

MCP endpoint

https://brave.run.tools

How to connect

Smithery (hosted)

1. Open https://smithery.ai/servers/brave
2. Click Connect and complete OAuth in your MCP client (Claude, Cursor, VS Code, etc.)
3. MCP endpoint: https://brave.run.tools

Tools (8)

brave_web_search
Performs web searches using the Brave Search API and returns comprehensive search results with rich metadata. To chain into local-POI enrichment, pass `result_filter=locations` and feed the resulting `locations.results[].id` values into `brave_local_search`. To chain into the AI summarizer, pass `summary=true` and feed the returned `summarizer.key` into `brave_summarizer`.
brave_news_search
Searches for news articles using Brave's News Search API. Use it when you need current news, breaking updates, or articles about specific topics.
brave_image_search
Performs an image search using the Brave Search API. Helpful when you need pictures of people, places, things, graphic-design ideas, or art inspiration. Counts of up to 100 are supported.
brave_video_search
Searches for videos using Brave's Video Search API. Returns structured video results with metadata.
brave_local_search
Brave Local Search API returns enriched information (address, phone, hours, rating) for location-search results. Access requires the Brave Search API Pro plan; currently US-only. Two-step flow: first call `brave_web_search` with `result_filter=locations` to obtain `locations.results[].id`, then pass them here. NOTE: This tool takes location IDs from a prior web-search response; if you have a free-text query, call `brave_web_search` first.
brave_llm_context
Retrieves pre-extracted, relevance-ranked web content using Brave's LLM Context API, optimized for AI agents, LLM grounding, and RAG pipelines. Unlike a traditional web search that returns links and short descriptions, this tool returns the actual substance of matching pages — text chunks, tables, code blocks, and structured data — so the model can reason over it directly. When relaying results in markdown-supporting environments, cite source URLs from the `sources` map.
brave_place_search
Searches Brave's Place Search API. A single call may populate any combination of `results` (POIs), `cities`, `addresses`, `streets`, and `location` (the resolved search area), depending on the query shape. Use for POIs near coordinates or a named area, browsing general POIs (omit `query`, supply coords or `location`), disambiguating bare city names, resolving specific addresses, or looking up streets. Anchor via `latitude`+`longitude` or `location`; with neither, `query` is required.
brave_summarizer
Retrieves AI-generated summaries of web search results. Two-step flow: first call `brave_web_search` with `summary=true` to obtain `summarizer.key`, then pass it here. Pro AI tier required.