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.

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