For companies building AI or search applications, or training foundational models, success can hinge on the quality (and data retention policies) of their Web search API. Big Tech APIs have been reduced, restricted, or altogether removed from public access; they’re also a privacy nightmare. Scraper APIs—and thus the companies who use them—get results from unofficial calls to a fully-fledged search engine (usually Bing or Google), so they have no control over the retention policy of the query.
The Brave Search API is the only search API built with privacy at its core. Regardless of plan or subscription, Brave Search API data is used and maintained only for the narrow purposes documented in our Data Processing Addendum. To help meet ever-growing compliance obligations, Brave also offers enterprise customers the option of Zero Data Retention (ZDR).
With ZDR, Brave Search API enterprise customers can ensure that no queries are retained for any length of time. 1 ZDR simplifies compliance obligations, reduces liability exposure, and means API customers don’t need to worry about their data being leaked, because that data is never stored in the first place.
ZDR is available to all Brave Search API customers on a custom enterprise plan, and can be enabled by contacting API support.
