Brave Search MCP
Real-time web search for Claude and AI models
How to Install Brave Search MCP
$npx @modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-searchRequires Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, or another MCP-compatible client.
About Brave Search MCP
Wraps the Brave Search API so AI models can ground answers in live web results.
Brave Search MCP is a Search MCP server designed for researchers, analysts, and engineers building grounded agents. It enables giving AI assistants live, source-grounded web access by wrapping a search provider and page-fetch step as MCP tools. Key capabilities include live web search with snippets and urls, optional full-page fetch for cited sources, configurable result counts and freshness windows, and structured tool calls that work cleanly inside an LLM context. It integrates with Google, Bing, Brave, Tavily, Exa, Perplexity, and SerpAPI, and is best suited for researchers, analysts, and engineers building grounded agents who need research and competitive analysis.
Key Features
- search
- web
- grounding
- Live web search with snippets and URLs
- Optional full-page fetch for cited sources
- Configurable result counts and freshness windows
Pricing
- Core MCP server
- Community support
- Works with any MCP client
- Everything in Free
- Higher usage limits
- Priority support
- Everything in Pro
- SLA & SSO
- Dedicated support
Tier details are indicative — visit the Brave Search MCP website for current pricing.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Lets the assistant answer about events past its training cutoff
- Cites sources you can actually click
- Replaces most simple RAG pipelines
Cons
- Quality depends on the underlying search provider
- Token costs scale with how much page content you pull
- Rate limits can bite on bursty agent runs
Best For
- Research and competitive analysis
- Source-grounded answers in chat UIs
- Fact-checking long-form drafts
- Replacing manual Googling in agent loops
Screenshots
Screenshots coming soon —
Submit yours →Our Take on Brave Search MCP
Cheaper than most search APIs and uses Brave's independent index. Great default for grounding.
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