# Brave Search MCP: use Brave Search from your agent through looot

Search the web, news, images and videos from Brave's own index for your agent through one MCP connection. Brave Search is one of the providers behind looot; your agent calls its endpoints through the looot MCP connection.

## What your agent can do with Brave Search

- Search the web: covered.
- Search news articles: covered.
- Search images: covered.
- Search videos: covered.
- Local results and AI summaries: partial. Brave's own MCP server has local search and the summarizer; the looot catalog does not run them today.

## Example prompts for Brave Search

- Fresh results: Use looot to search the web with Brave Search for posts about MCP security from the past week and list the ten best links.
- News: Use looot to search Brave Search news for Stripe in the US from the last month and return headline, source and date.
- Images: Use looot to find five images of the Golden Gate Bridge at night with Brave Search and return their URLs and sources.

## Is there a Brave Search MCP server?

Brave Search publishes its own MCP server. looot is not that server. looot is one MCP connection that reaches Brave Search and every other provider in the catalog, billed per call. Use Brave Search's server when Brave Search is the only provider you need.

## How do I use Brave Search with Claude Code?

Add the looot MCP connection to Claude Code once, using the setup at https://looot.ai/skill.md. Then ask Claude Code to use looot for the job. Brave Search is one of the providers behind looot; your agent calls its endpoints through the looot MCP connection.

## How do I use Brave Search with Cursor?

Add the looot MCP connection in Cursor's MCP settings, then ask the agent to use looot. Brave Search is one of the providers behind looot; your agent calls its endpoints through the looot MCP connection.

## Does Brave Search work with ChatGPT?

It works in any client that can add an MCP connection. Where your ChatGPT plan lets you add one, add looot and ask it to use looot. Brave Search is one of the providers behind looot; your agent calls its endpoints through the looot MCP connection.

## What can I do with Brave Search through looot?

The jobs on this page: search the web, search news articles, search images, search videos, local results and ai summaries. The page marks any job whose endpoints are not in the live catalog.

## What does Brave Search cost through looot?

You pay per call. The price of each endpoint is shown before you run it, so your agent can check it first and pick the cheapest one that fits.

## Do I need a Brave Search account to use it through looot?

You connect to looot, not to Brave Search. looot makes the provider call for you and bills each call at the price shown before the run.

## How does my agent find the right Brave Search endpoint?

It searches the looot catalog for the task, reads the endpoint's parameters and price, and then calls it. You do not have to read Brave Search's docs first.

## What can I use with Brave Search in looot?

Providers that often go with Brave Search are Exa, Tavily, Serper, Linkup, SearchApi. All of them sit behind the same looot MCP connection.

## What are the Brave Search alternatives?

Exa and Tavily search the web for agents, Serper and SearchApi return Google results, and Linkup searches and fetches pages, all behind the same looot connection. See /mcp/exa, /mcp/tavily and /mcp/serper, or ask your agent to compare prices in the looot catalog before it runs.

## Should I use the Brave Search MCP server or looot?

Brave's own server needs a Brave Search API key and covers Brave alone, including local search and the summarizer. Through looot, one key reaches Brave's web, news, image and video search plus every other search provider in the catalog, so your agent can fall back to another one when Brave misses.

## Used together with

- exa
- tavily
- serper
- linkup
- searchapi-io

## Last reviewed

2026-10-02. Live prices are on the web page, read from the catalog.

## Agent skill for this page

https://looot.ai/mcp/brave-search/skill.md sets an agent up for exactly the jobs on this page, with the live price of each, and offers the page's starter task once the user has picked a job and seen the price. The line to give an agent is under "Give this to your agent" below.

## For agents

### Give this to your agent

```text
set up looot for Brave Search jobs - https://looot.ai/mcp/brave-search/skill.md
```