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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.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Brave

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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

Fewer trackers than BraveNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Brave match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · 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 and search numbers · 14 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,212
Vector
384-d
Query
52 ms

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
Email hosting
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
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

Sitemaps

, 9,847 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.