Brave Search

Brave Search is a privacy-focused search engine that uses its own independent search index to generate both traditional results and AI summaries. Unlike most AI search engines that rely on third-party indexes, Brave built its own crawler and index covering over 35 billion pages. This independence makes it the best privacy-focused search engine available, with zero data retention—query logs are not stored and search histories do not persist. In February 2026, Brave launched its LLM Context API, a retooled search infrastructure built specifically for AI applications, offering structured web results with content extraction and direct synthesized answers.