Brave Search indexer: Is your page in Brave's index?
This free Brave Search indexer checks whether Brave has your page, finds what keeps it out, and gets it to Brave's fetch request in one click. Brave runs its own index, apart from Google's and Bing's, and it is very likely the index behind Claude's web search.
Ask Brave to fetch it
- Copy the address and open Brave's form. The button below does both.
- Paste it into the box on Brave's page and press Submit. Brave runs its own quick check that you're a person first.
- Check again in a few days. This page remembers when you sent it.
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What we checked
Your sitemap's pages in Brave
Pages Brave lists that your sitemap doesn't
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How the Brave Search indexer works
The Brave Search indexer works in three steps: it asks Brave whether it has the page, checks everything that keeps Brave out, and hands the address to Brave's own fetch request.
- Ask Brave. It looks the address up in Brave's Search API. When the address isn't there, it searches your site for the page's title, so a page Brave keeps under www, a trailing slash or its canonical address still counts. When Brave has it, you see the title and description Brave shows, and whether its copy looks older than your page.
- Check what keeps Brave out. Brave says its crawler won't crawl a page Googlebot can't, so it reads your robots.txt the way Googlebot does. It reads the page from our server for noindex, errors, redirects, the canonical tag and firewall pages.
- Hand it to Brave. Brave takes requests one address at a time through its own form, behind a quick person check. The button copies the address and opens the form, and the page remembers the day you sent it.
- Scan the whole site. Choose The whole site to list every page in your sitemap, newest first, next to the pages Brave lists for your site, then check or send the ones that are missing.
Why Brave Search misses pages
Why Brave Search misses a page usually comes down to one of five things, and this tool checks each one.
Googlebot is blocked
Brave's crawler sends no name of its own and doesn't crawl what Googlebot can't, so a robots.txt line that blocks Googlebot, or a robots.txt that answers with a server error, keeps Brave out too.
The page says noindex
Brave reads the robots noindex directive in the page or the X-Robots-Tag header and leaves the page out. Brave has to fetch the page again to see that you removed it.
A firewall turns crawlers away
Brave's crawler looks like a normal browser and publishes no IP addresses to allow, so a bot rule that only lets Googlebot in, or a human check on every visit, can keep Brave out.
Brave hasn't found it yet
Brave's index is smaller than Google's, and new pages wait longest. Brave finds pages through its crawler, links, and visits from Brave browser users who opted into the Web Discovery Project. A fetch request puts the page in front of the crawler.
Another address is the real one
A redirect or a canonical tag that names another address tells search engines to index that address instead, so Brave may have the page under its canonical address and not the one you typed.
Brave Search Console and Brave Webmaster Tools
Brave Search Console and Brave Webmaster Tools are what site owners look for, but Brave's help pages describe neither: there is no sitemap upload, no index report and no click data.
- What Brave offers. A form at search.brave.com/submit-url that asks Brave to fetch one address again, for a new page, a changed one or one that should drop out. It takes no sitemap and no list.
- No IndexNow. IndexNow sends new addresses to Bing, Yandex, Seznam, Naver, Yep and a few others. Brave isn't one of them, so an IndexNow plugin doesn't reach it.
- What this tool adds. The checks a console would run for Brave: is the page in the index, what Brave shows for it, what keeps it out, and which of your sitemap's pages Brave lists.
Brave Search indexer questions
These Brave Search indexer questions come up most: how to get a site into Brave, how long it takes, and what it costs.
How do I submit my site to Brave Search?
One page at a time. Brave has no sitemap submission: its form at search.brave.com/submit-url asks Brave to fetch a single address, after a quick check that you're a person. Check the page here first, so you send pages that nothing keeps out, and start with your home page and your most important pages. Brave's crawler follows links from there.
How do I check if my page is indexed in Brave?
Type the page above and press Check Brave. The tool looks the address up in Brave's Search API, then searches your site for the page's title, so a copy Brave keeps under www, a trailing slash or the canonical address still counts. A plain site: search on search.brave.com works too, but it lists only some of a site's pages.
How long does Brave take to index a page?
Brave doesn't publish a time. Send the page, then check it again here after a few days. The tool remembers when you sent each address in this browser and says so on the next check.
Does Brave Search support IndexNow?
No. IndexNow passes new addresses to Bing, Yandex, Seznam, Naver, Yep, the Internet Archive and Amazon's crawler, and Brave isn't on that list as of October 2026. Brave's fetch request form is the only way to send it a page.
What user agent does Brave's crawler use?
Brave says its crawler sends no user agent of its own, so sites that only let Google in don't shut it out, and that it won't crawl a page Googlebot can't. That makes your robots.txt rules for Googlebot (or for every crawler) the ones Brave follows. Some crawler lists report a Bravebot name; Brave's own help page doesn't mention one.
Why does Brave's index matter for AI search?
Brave runs one of the few independent web indexes, and Claude's web search very likely searches it: Anthropic lists Brave Search as a subprocessor, and the pages Claude cites have matched Brave's results in tests. A page missing from Brave is hard for Claude to find, even when it ranks on Google.
Does the Brave Search indexer cost anything?
No. Each page check asks Brave's Search API once or twice and a site scan up to five times. You get 20 Brave lookups a day without signing in and 60 with a Google sign-in, and they come back at midnight UTC.
How do I remove a page from Brave Search?
Add a robots noindex tag to the page, or let it answer 404 or 410, then send the address through the same Brave form so Brave fetches it again and drops it. Brave's help page says robots.txt isn't what keeps a page out of its index, so a robots.txt block alone won't remove it.