{"slug": "brave-lets-ai-agents-buy-search-for-0-005-a-query-no-api-key-required", "title": "Brave lets AI agents buy search for $0.005 a query, no API key required", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "# Brave lets AI agents buy search for $0.005 a query, no API key required\n\n**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.**\n\n        By [RuntimeWire Staff](https://runtimewire.com/author/runtimewire-staff)\n        · Published \n\nBrendan 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.…", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/brave-lets-ai-agents-buy-search-for-0-005-a-query-no-api-key-required", "canonical_source": "https://runtimewire.com/article/brave-search-api-x402-agentic-payments", "published_at": "2026-11-13 05:07:02+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-13 08:22:24.534472+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-search", "ai-tools", "agent-protocols"], "entities": ["Brave", "Brendan Eich", "LLM Context", "USDC", "Base"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/brave-lets-ai-agents-buy-search-for-0-005-a-query-no-api-key-required", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/brave-lets-ai-agents-buy-search-for-0-005-a-query-no-api-key-required.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/brave-lets-ai-agents-buy-search-for-0-005-a-query-no-api-key-required.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/brave-lets-ai-agents-buy-search-for-0-005-a-query-no-api-key-required.jsonld"}}