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Sailor vs Brave Search API

Independent index — bare metal.

Brave's index is genuinely independent and great. But you still get raw SERP rows. Sailor sits on top of independent indexes and turns them into LLM-ready context.

TL;DR

Brave's independence + Sailor's AI-native shape, in one call.

Feature comparison

Honest, side-by-side. We update this quarterly.

Clean markdown output (no HTML mess)

Sailor

Brave Search API

Structured deep search & enrichment

Sailor

Brave Search API

Multi-engine (Google, Bing, Brave, DDG)

Sailor

Brave Search API

Social-native search (X, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, HN, LinkedIn)

Sailor

Brave Search API

Token-compact responses (~70% smaller)

Sailor

Brave Search API

Source citations with timestamps

Sailor

Brave Search API

Drop-in OpenAPI / OpenAI tool schema

Sailor

Brave Search API

Streaming results

Sailor

Brave Search API

Per-query budget & token limits

Sailor

Brave Search API

JS-rendered page support

Sailor

Brave Search API

Free tier

Sailor

1,000 / mo

Brave Search API

limited

Pay-as-you-go pricing

Sailor

Brave Search API

When to choose Sailor

  • You're shipping an AI product where context quality directly drives output quality.
  • You want one API for SERPs, page content, and social platforms.
  • You care about token cost as much as recall.
  • You'd rather migrate later than hit a ceiling now.

When to choose Brave Search API

  • You strictly need Brave's own crawler and index.
  • You're cost-sensitive and don't need page enrichment.
  • You're building a pure search frontend, not an AI app.

Migrate in under 30 minutes

Same payload shape. Same response keys. Drop in and ship.

Before — Brave Search API
GET https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search?q=ai+agents
After — Sailor
POST https://api.sailorsearch.dev/v1/search { q: "ai agents", source: "brave" }

Questions, answered

Still curious? Email us at hello@sailorsearch.dev — we usually reply within hours.

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