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Brave Search vs Web Search
Same numbers we show everywhere else, lined up. Ratings come from users, the grade comes from our scanner, adoption comes from public registries.
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Brave Search MCP Server: web results, images, videos, rich results, AI summaries, and more.
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Live web search and clean-markdown page fetch over the Keenable web index.
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Neither has been reviewed yet, so the comparison rests on the scan and the public usage numbers. Both score close on the safety scan (85 and 87 out of 100). Web Search is hosted and callable through the gateway; Brave Search runs on your own machine. Brave Search has noticeably more public adoption.
| Brave Search | Web Search | |
|---|---|---|
| User rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
| Safety grade | A85/100 | A87/100 |
| Adoption | Established | Growing |
| GitHub stars | 1.5k | 6 |
| Downloads / week | 17k | 77 |
| Runs where | Your machine (local) | Hosted (remote) |
| Gateway-ready | No | Yes |
| Tools | 8 | 2 |
| Write actions | — | — |
| Price per call | Free | Free |
| Licence | MIT | MIT |
| Last release | 2026-09-22 | 2026-09-23 |
| Category | Web search | Web search |