Web and local search using Brave Search API
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Should you use this server?
The Brave Search MCP Server gives your AI assistant the ability to search the web using the Brave Search API. It supports both web search and local search (finding nearby businesses and places). Privacy-respecting alternative to Google search.
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Is it safe?
No known CVEs for @modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search.
No authentication — any process on your machine can connect to this server.
MIT. View license →
Last scanned 0 days ago.
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Is it maintained?
Last commit 5 days ago. 82,845 GitHub stars. 29,853 weekly downloads.
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Will it work with my client?
Transport: stdio. Works with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code, windsurf. Requires an API key.
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How much context will it use?
2 tools. Estimated ~100 tokens of your context window (0.0% of 200K).