Brave is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server: Visit https://brave.com/search/api/ for a free API key. Search the web, local businesses, images,…. In practice that means any MCP-compatible AI assistant can call Brave's tools directly — the model decides when to use them in a conversation or agent run.
It's a hosted (remote) server — point your client at https://server.smithery.ai/brave/mcp and you're connected, with nothing to install locally. The current release is v2.0.58, published under the MIT license, with source at brave/brave-search-mcp-server on GitHub, where it has earned 1.4k stars.
Brave is listed under Development on mcp.site and works with any MCP client — Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed and the rest of the ecosystem — using the install snippets below. If you maintain Brave for smithery.ai, claim this listing to verify ownership, earn the Verified badge, and keep the details current.