Brave Now Has Over 100 Million Users

Brave announced today that it now has over 100 million active users across desktop and mobile worldwide.

“100 million users represent more than a growth milestone, they constitute a movement for a better Web that puts users first,” Brave CEO and founder Brendan Eich says. “Across the globe, users are choosing privacy and control over their online experience, instead of Big Tech’s tracking and abuse. Every product we’ve launched since our browser—our search engine, our premium products, our ad platform—has been built with privacy protections. As we expand our AI offerings, we will continue to design for privacy-by-default, which will fuel our next wave of growth.”

Brave is the web browser I recommend most because it’s secure and private out of the box and is as compatible as Chrome or any other Chromium-based browser. So it’s nice to see it reach this level of much-deserved success. According to the company’s it’s been averaging about 2.5 million new users each month for the past two years, and in addition to having over 100 million monthly active users (MAU) worldwide, it now boasts over 42 million daily active users (DAU), which Brave says indicates a very high engagement level.

“This growth has been fueled by a global awareness that Brave is an alternative to Big Tech and that users benefit greatly from a browser that preserves their privacy and is up to 3 times faster than competitors,” the company notes. “Also, when users are given a choice, users exercise that choice and switch to new browsers. For example, daily installs for Brave on iOS in the EU went up 50 percent with the new browser choice panel, following the implementation of the DMA and release of iOS 17.4 in 2024.”

Brave also makes Brave Search, of course, and it says that this service is just one of three truly independent search engines in the western world, and the only one outside Big Tech. Users now make 1.6 billion queries on Brave Search each month, or near 20 billion per year. It now handles over 50 million user queries and responds with over 15 million AI-generated search answers each day.

Brave hints that it will soon update its Leo AI with an agentic experience. But it will do so in a secure and private way, using a specialized browser profile that ensures the agent doesn’t have access to other tabs that may contain sensitive information.

“As a privacy company, we pride ourselves on adhering to a stronger variation of Google’s old (and since abandoned) mantra,” the company says. “When we say ‘Can’t be evil,’ we mean we don’t have access to personal user data in the first place.” Its Privacy Preserving Product Analytics (P3A) is also open-source and can be reviewed by anyone.

You can (and should) download Brave from the Brave website.