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Brave lets AI agents buy search for $0.005 a query, no API key required

Brave, led by CEO Brendan Eich, began accepting per-request payments on November 12 for access to its search index and LLM Context, priced at $0.005 per request, with funded AI agents paying in USDC on Base without an account or API key. The move lets software that can hold a wallet, receive a price quote and pay for its own queries buy search access directly, shifting the customer for Brave's index from human readers to autonomous agents.

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Brave lets AI agents buy search for $0.005 a query, no API key required
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Brendan Eich's Brave priced LLM Context and web search at $0.005 per request, letting funded agents pay in USDC on Base without an account or API key.

        By [RuntimeWire Staff](https://runtimewire.com/author/runtimewire-staff)
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Brendan Eich built JavaScript for a web of browsers and human readers. On November 12th, Brave started accepting per-request payments for access to its search index from a different kind of customer: software that can hold a wallet, receive a price quote, and pay for its own next query.…

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