# Brave Search MCP Server

> Web and news search for AI assistants via MCP

- Page on StartupList: https://startuplist.tech/launches/brave-search-mcp-server
- Website: https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server
- Category: MCP Servers
- Price: Open source
- Company: Brave Search MCP Server (https://startuplist.tech/companies/brave-search-mcp-server)
- Used for: Answer questions with AI, Build a chatbot

## About

Brave Search MCP Server is an MCP server that connects AI assistants and other MCP clients to the Brave Search API. It provides tools for web, local, place, video, image and news search, along with LLM context retrieval and AI-powered summarization.

Each search capability is exposed as a named tool, such as brave_web_search, brave_news_search and brave_place_search. Parameters cover query terms, country and language, result counts, safe search level, and freshness filters. The LLM Context tool returns pre-extracted web content meant for grounding answers and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines.

The server supports STDIO and HTTP transports, with STDIO as the default since version 2.x. The README includes setup instructions for Claude Desktop and VS Code, and explains how to obtain a Brave Search API key and set environment variables or command line options.

The project is aimed at developers building AI agents and tools that need live search results, and at people who want to use Brave Search from an MCP-compatible client. The source is published under the MIT license. The page does not state any pricing for the server itself. Use of the underlying Brave Search API requires an API key, and some features, such as extra snippets and full local search, are described as requiring a Pro plan.

## Links

- [Brave Search MCP Server on StartupList](https://startuplist.tech/launches/brave-search-mcp-server)
- [Website](https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server)