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Brave Search MCP Server

Official Brave Search MCP server for web and local search.

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Brave's first-party MCP server exposing web and local search to MCP-aware clients. Replaces the earlier modelcontextprotocol reference server.

What it does

  • Seven search tools: web, local, video, image, news, place search + LLM-optimized context retrieval
  • Official Brave server; 2.x defaults to stdio (`--transport http` or BRAVE_MCP_TRANSPORT for HTTP)
  • Rich filters: freshness, country/language, safesearch, goggles, result_filter

When to use it

The 'Claude can search the web' server with the best free tier among the majors. brave_llm_context is the differentiator — returns pre-extracted content sized for agent context windows.

Getting started

Get a Brave Search API key (free tier exists), then:

{
  "command": "npx",
  "args": ["-y", "@brave/brave-search-mcp-server"],
  "env": { "BRAVE_API_KEY": "..." }
}

Things to know

Local search and extra_snippets need a paid Pro plan — free tier silently falls back to web results. 2.x changed brave_image_search output (no more base64), so screenshots/examples from older tutorials won't match.

Repository

brave/brave-search-mcp-server

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