Brave MCP Server

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Brave is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. Last commit 26 Oct 2026.

Visit https://brave.com/search/api/ for a free API key. Search the web, local businesses, images,…

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 92%

91 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

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Tools

hidden behind auth

407 ms

Response time

average over 24h

1 552

Stars

last commit 26 Oct 2026

Brave missed one check this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add brave --transport http https://server.smithery.ai/brave/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://server.smithery.ai/brave/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.brave]
url = "https://server.smithery.ai/brave/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "brave": {
      "url": "https://server.smithery.ai/brave/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "brave": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://server.smithery.ai/brave/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, and it signs you in through your browser: there is no API key to paste.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://server.smithery.ai/brave/mcp	streamable-http	sign-in	674 ms	5 min ago

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Brave — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no tool list for Brave?

The server answered our handshake with an authorization challenge, so it is running — but it will not describe its tools to an anonymous client. To see them you need to connect with your own credentials. We record it as alive, not as broken: 100.0% of checks in the last 24 hours got a reply.

Is Brave working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 407 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Brave?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address. You sign in through your browser once and the client keeps the session: no key to copy, and it refuses anonymous clients.

How do you sign in to Brave?

No API key is involved. Brave answers our knock with an OAuth challenge, so you authorise it once in your browser and the client keeps the session. That is also why we see no tool list: it will not describe itself to an anonymous client, and that is the server working as intended, not a fault.

How fast is Brave?

It answers our handshake in 407 ms on average, which is faster than 32% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Brave open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript, 1 552 stars on GitHub and 25 open issues. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at server.smithery.ai, which runs on its operator's own terms.