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Brave
Who runs Brave, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest web browser alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Vivaldi
Measured from Brave’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Brave01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Brave
Brave brave.com
The Brave browser is a fast, private and secure web browser for PC, Mac and mobile. Download now to enjoy a faster ad-free browsing experience that saves data and battery life by blocking tracking software.
Wikidata: free and open-source, privacy-focused web browser developed by Brave Software, Inc. based on the Chromium web browser
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Brave tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
12 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Brave
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Brave, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Vivaldi Browser | Powerful, Personal and Private web browser
It’s a web browser. But fun. It comes with a bunch of clever features built-in. It’s super flexible and does not track you. Get the Vivaldi browser for desktop, mobile, and your car!
Very close - 02
Opera Web Browser | Faster, Safer, Smarter | Opera
Faster, safer and smarter than default browsers. Fully-featured for privacy, security, and so much more. Get the faster, better Opera browser for free.
Very close - 03
Mozilla - Internet for people, not profit (US)
We’re working to put control of the internet back in the hands of the people using it.
Very close - 04
DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.
The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
Very close - 05
Firefox: The fast, private browser that keeps you safe — Firefox.com
The independent browser that has your back. Firefox blocks trackers, has a free built-in VPN, puts you in control of AI, and never sells your personal data.
Very close - 06
Cốc Cốc Browser | The web browser for Vietnamese people
Cốc Cốc web browser has built-in Adblocker, Video Downloader, and PiP on all platforms. Download Cốc Cốc for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS.
Very close - 07
Google
search engine by Google LLC
Very close - 08
UC Browser | Powerful, Personal and Private web browser
UC Browser is a fast and safe web browser for PC, Mac, and mobile. Download now to enjoy a clean, ad-free browsing experience with built-in VPN for enhanced privacy and security!
Very close - 09
Mojeek
Mojeek is a web search engine that provides unbiased, fast, and relevant search results combined with a no tracking privacy policy.
Very close - 10
privacy-focused online search engine
Very close - 11
Ghostery Ad Blocker | Best Free Ad Blocker & Privacy Tool | Ghostery
Take back control of your online privacy with Ghostery. The #1 privacy suite that gives you the power to block ads, stop trackers, and much more.
Very close - 12
Qwant - The search engine that values you as a user, not as a product
Fast, reliable answers and still in trust: Qwant does not store your search data, does not sell your personal data and is hosted in Europe.
Very close - 13
AdGuard Ad Blocker — block ads, popups, and trackers
AdGuard is the best way to get rid of annoying ads and online tracking and protect your computer from malware. Make your web surfing fast, safe and ad-free
Very close - 14
web search engine and browser
Very close - 15
Surf the web without annoying pop ups and ads!
AdBlock is one of the most popular ad blockers worldwide with more than 60 million users on Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge as well as Android. Use AdBlock to block all ads and pop ups. AdBlock can also be used to help protect your privacy by blocking trackers. AdBlock blocks ads on Facebook, YouTube, and all other websites. Download it for free now!
Very close - 16
Home – Lycos
search engine and web portal
Very close - 17
Mullvad VPN - Privacy is for the people
Free the internet from mass surveillance and censorship. Fight for privacy with Mullvad VPN and Mullvad Browser.
Very close - 18
VPN service that's fast, reliable, & effective | Windscribe
Protect your privacy, stream global content, and mask your location with the best VPN service. Enjoy fast speeds and servers in over 135 locations.
Very close - 19
NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet
NextDNS protects you from all kinds of security threats, blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps and provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids — on all devices and on all networks.
Very close - 20
Yandex — fast Internet search
Yandex finds anything: webpages, images, music, good. Solve any problem — from everyday to a scientific one. Search by text, voice or image.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Brave’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Brave uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Brave adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 14 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 28 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Brave’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Analytics
- Matomo page source: matomo.js
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:mg-sp…
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=847220A91D9946797AF5B23AF5E5816819D7635F929A648A6…
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: ugarN_fFZoyOmeSCFo4l8vA5721H60O9x9FgAh7B_NSFSUVz36CJ3Q==
- Hosting
- Amazon Web Services header server: AmazonS3
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms69010546
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:mg-sp…
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:mg-sp…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS kim.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=5XuBJ6NV4KD8docJ
- DocuSign TXT docusign=d29b5a86-240e-4695-bda6-40fac836d1ff
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=L_gCJjCp8BmJQV8Dw1zuHUrMXgEBInKkweJ0N…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=ZwvN7sFdASQRA2TVqpPkgIsRY0nxP1AhNevNKduButY
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Apple Business 7/20
- Zendesk 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on brave.com 6/20
- Microsoft 365 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS 4/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on brave.com 4/20
- OpenAI · not on brave.com 4/20
- nginx · not on brave.com 4/20
- Slack · not on brave.com 4/20
- Atlassian · not on brave.com 4/20
- Bing Webmaster Tools · not on brave.com 3/20
- jQuery · not on brave.com 3/20
- Yandex Webmaster · not on brave.com 3/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on brave.com 3/20