diff --git a/internal/engines/brave.go b/internal/engines/brave.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cb9313d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/engines/brave.go
@@ -0,0 +1,172 @@
+package engines
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/url"
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/metamorphosis-dev/kafka/internal/contracts"
+)
+
+type BraveEngine struct {
+	client *http.Client
+}
+
+func (e *BraveEngine) Name() string { return "brave" }
+
+func (e *BraveEngine) Search(ctx context.Context, req contracts.SearchRequest) (contracts.SearchResponse, error) {
+	if strings.TrimSpace(req.Query) == "" {
+		return contracts.SearchResponse{Query: req.Query}, nil
+	}
+
+	start := (req.Pageno - 1) * 20
+	u := fmt.Sprintf(
+		"https://search.brave.com/search?q=%s&offset=%d&source=web",
+		url.QueryEscape(req.Query),
+		start,
+	)
+
+	httpReq, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodGet, u, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return contracts.SearchResponse{}, err
+	}
+	httpReq.Header.Set("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36")
+	httpReq.Header.Set("Accept", "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8")
+	httpReq.Header.Set("Accept-Language", "en-US,en;q=0.9")
+
+	resp, err := e.client.Do(httpReq)
+	if err != nil {
+		return contracts.SearchResponse{}, err
+	}
+	defer resp.Body.Close()
+
+	if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
+		body, _ := io.ReadAll(io.LimitReader(resp.Body, 4096))
+		return contracts.SearchResponse{}, fmt.Errorf("brave error: status=%d body=%q", resp.StatusCode, string(body))
+	}
+
+	body, err := io.ReadAll(io.LimitReader(resp.Body, 128*1024))
+	if err != nil {
+		return contracts.SearchResponse{}, err
+	}
+
+	results := parseBraveResults(string(body))
+	return contracts.SearchResponse{
+		Query:               req.Query,
+		NumberOfResults:     len(results),
+		Results:             results,
+		Answers:             []map[string]any{},
+		Corrections:         []string{},
+		Infoboxes:           []map[string]any{},
+		Suggestions:         extractBraveSuggestions(string(body)),
+		UnresponsiveEngines: [][2]string{},
+	}, nil
+}
+
+func parseBraveResults(body string) []contracts.MainResult {
+	var results []contracts.MainResult
+
+	// Brave wraps each result in divs with data-type="web" or data-type="news".
+	// Pattern: <div ... data-type="web"> ... <a class="result-title" href="URL">TITLE</a> ... <div class="snippet">SNIPPET</div>
+	webPattern := regexp.MustCompile(`(?s)<div[^>]+data-type="web"[^>]*>(.*?)</div>\s*<div[^>]+data-type="(web|news)"`)
+	matches := webPattern.FindAllStringSubmatch(body, -1)
+
+	seen := map[string]bool{}
+
+	for _, match := range matches {
+		if len(match) < 2 {
+			continue
+		}
+		block := match[1]
+
+		// Extract title and URL from the result-title link.
+		titlePattern := regexp.MustCompile(`<a[^>]+class="result-title"[^>]+href="([^"]+)"[^>]*>([^<]+)</a>`)
+		titleMatch := titlePattern.FindStringSubmatch(block)
+		if titleMatch == nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		href := titleMatch[1]
+		title := stripTags(titleMatch[2])
+
+		if href == "" || !strings.HasPrefix(href, "http") {
+			continue
+		}
+		if seen[href] {
+			continue
+		}
+		seen[href] = true
+
+		// Extract snippet.
+		snippet := extractBraveSnippet(block)
+
+		// Extract favicon URL.
+		favicon := extractBraveFavicon(block)
+
+		urlPtr := href
+		results = append(results, contracts.MainResult{
+			Title:     title,
+			URL:       &urlPtr,
+			Content:   snippet,
+			Thumbnail: favicon,
+			Engine:    "brave",
+			Score:     1.0,
+			Category:  "general",
+			Engines:   []string{"brave"},
+		})
+	}
+
+	return results
+}
+
+func extractBraveSnippet(block string) string {
+	// Try various snippet selectors Brave uses.
+	patterns := []string{
+		`<div[^>]+class="snippet"[^>]*>(.*?)</div>`,
+		`<p[^>]+class="[^"]*description[^"]*"[^>]*>(.*?)</p>`,
+		`<span[^>]+class="[^"]*snippet[^"]*"[^>]*>(.*?)</span>`,
+	}
+
+	for _, pat := range patterns {
+		re := regexp.MustCompile(`(?s)` + pat)
+		m := re.FindStringSubmatch(block)
+		if len(m) >= 2 {
+			text := stripTags(m[1])
+			if text != "" {
+				return strings.TrimSpace(text)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
+func extractBraveFavicon(block string) string {
+	imgPattern := regexp.MustCompile(`<img[^>]+class="[^"]*favicon[^"]*"[^>]+src="([^"]+)"`)
+	m := imgPattern.FindStringSubmatch(block)
+	if len(m) >= 2 {
+		return m[1]
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
+func extractBraveSuggestions(body string) []string {
+	var suggestions []string
+	// Brave suggestions appear in a dropdown or related searches section.
+	suggestPattern := regexp.MustCompile(`(?s)<li[^>]+class="[^"]*suggestion[^"]*"[^>]*>.*?<a[^>]*>([^<]+)</a>`)
+	matches := suggestPattern.FindAllStringSubmatch(body, -1)
+	seen := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, m := range matches {
+		if len(m) < 2 {
+			continue
+		}
+		s := strings.TrimSpace(stripTags(m[1]))
+		if s != "" && !seen[s] {
+			seen[s] = true
+			suggestions = append(suggestions, s)
+		}
+	}
+	return suggestions
+}
diff --git a/internal/engines/braveapi.go b/internal/engines/braveapi.go
index 8977cb2..1ae6220 100644
--- a/internal/engines/braveapi.go
+++ b/internal/engines/braveapi.go
@@ -33,16 +33,16 @@ import (
 // BraveEngine implements the Brave Web Search API.
 // Required: BRAVE_API_KEY env var or config.
 // Optional: BRAVE_ACCESS_TOKEN to gate requests.
-type BraveEngine struct {
+type BraveAPIEngine struct {
 	client          *http.Client
 	apiKey          string
 	accessGateToken string
 	resultsPerPage int
 }
 
-func (e *BraveEngine) Name() string { return "braveapi" }
+func (e *BraveAPIEngine) Name() string { return "braveapi" }
 
-func (e *BraveEngine) Search(ctx context.Context, req contracts.SearchRequest) (contracts.SearchResponse, error) {
+func (e *BraveAPIEngine) Search(ctx context.Context, req contracts.SearchRequest) (contracts.SearchResponse, error) {
 	if e == nil || e.client == nil {
 		return contracts.SearchResponse{}, errors.New("brave engine not initialized")
 	}
diff --git a/internal/engines/factory.go b/internal/engines/factory.go
index 528dcb7..68f66eb 100644
--- a/internal/engines/factory.go
+++ b/internal/engines/factory.go
@@ -51,12 +51,13 @@ func NewDefaultPortedEngines(client *http.Client, cfg *config.Config) map[string
 		"wikipedia": &WikipediaEngine{client: client},
 		"arxiv":     &ArxivEngine{client: client},
 		"crossref":  &CrossrefEngine{client: client},
-		"braveapi": &BraveEngine{
+		"braveapi": &BraveAPIEngine{
 			client:          client,
 			apiKey:          braveAPIKey,
 			accessGateToken: braveAccessToken,
 			resultsPerPage: 20,
 		},
+		"brave": &BraveEngine{client: client},
 		"qwant": &QwantEngine{
 			client:         client,
 			category:       "web-lite",
diff --git a/internal/engines/planner.go b/internal/engines/planner.go
index 9616a4b..270885b 100644
--- a/internal/engines/planner.go
+++ b/internal/engines/planner.go
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/metamorphosis-dev/kafka/internal/contracts"
 )
 
-var defaultPortedEngines = []string{"wikipedia", "arxiv", "crossref", "braveapi", "qwant", "duckduckgo", "github", "reddit", "bing", "google", "youtube"}
+var defaultPortedEngines = []string{"wikipedia", "arxiv", "crossref", "braveapi", "brave", "qwant", "duckduckgo", "github", "reddit", "bing", "google", "youtube"}
 
 type Planner struct {
 	PortedSet  map[string]bool
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ func inferFromCategories(categories []string) []string {
 		out = append(out, e)
 	}
 	// stable order
-	order := map[string]int{"wikipedia": 0, "braveapi": 1, "qwant": 2, "duckduckgo": 3, "bing": 4, "google": 5, "arxiv": 6, "crossref": 7, "github": 8, "reddit": 9, "youtube": 10}
+	order := map[string]int{"wikipedia": 0, "braveapi": 1, "brave": 2, "qwant": 3, "duckduckgo": 4, "bing": 5, "google": 6, "arxiv": 7, "crossref": 8, "github": 9, "reddit": 10, "youtube": 11}
 	sortByOrder(out, order)
 	return out
 }