Brave Search API approaches 700,000 OpenClaw users, highlighting the surge in machine-first search

Brave Search API has reached nearly 700,000 users through OpenClaw, the leading open-source AI agent platform backed by OpenAI. Brave positions itself as the only viable independent search API alternative as Google limits access and Bing phases out its API. The post highlights the growing trend of machine-driven search, where AI agents require real-time web access at scale. Brave also claims its Ask Brave AI search (using open-weights Qwen3 and its LLM Context API) outperformed ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode in internal evaluations. A step-by-step guide is available for integrating Brave Search API with OpenClaw.