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Brave Search
Brave Software · US · since 2021-06
First privacy search to ship its own independent index (no Bing). Optional AI summaries. Free tier with ads or $3/mo ad-free Premium. Solid Goggles feature lets you reweight result rankings.
ProprietaryFreemium
Pros
- + Real index, not a Bing reseller
- + Generous free tier
- + Anonymous payment options
Cons
- − Closed source backend
- − Index quality below Google for niche queries
- − BAT/crypto integration may turn some users off
Highlights
- ▸Independent index (rare in the privacy-search market)
- ▸Goggles — re-rank results yourself
- ▸AI summaries optional
Specs at a glance
- License
- Proprietary
- Open source
- No
- E2EE
- N/A
- Audited
- Not yet
- Self-host
- No
- HQ
- US
- Pricing
- freemium
- Platforms
- 3 platforms