9 Brave Browser Statistics (2025):
Market Share, Users, Popularity

Brave is a web browser & search engine with one main focus: It blocks trackers and ads by default.

Launched in March 2021, Brave has quickly attracted privacy-conscious users.

Today, it has over 82.7 million monthly active users.

So, how significant is Brave in the search engine market?

Here's a summary of what you'll find out on this page:

• Key Brave Browser Stats
• Brave Browser market share
• Brave Search daily searches
• Brave Search monthly searches
• Brave Search annual searches
• Brave Browser daily active users
• Brave Browser monthly active users
• Brave Browser app downloads
• Brave Browser user demographics
• How many people work at Brave Software

• On average, Brave Search processes 43.11 million search queries per day.
• Brave Browser has over 35.6 million daily active users.
• All-time mobile downloads of the Brave Browser app exceed 100 million.
• Brave has 175 employees working remotely across 5 different continents.

With 82.7 million monthly active users, Brave Browser claims over 1.5% of the worlds browser market share.

On average, Brave Search processes 43.11 million search queries per day. Over 1.34 billion queries are made each month.

in May, Brave Search reported a total of 411.7 million monthly search queries. The monthly volume of search queries grew by 10.67% compared to the month before.

On average, Brave Search's monthly search volume increased by 14.41% each month in 2022.

Here's a table showing the monthly number of searches on Brave Search since 2021:

Brave Search processes an average of 15.21 billion search queries per year.

In May 2022, Brave Search reported a total of 2.5 billion processed search queries in the previous 365 days.

In comparison, other search engines such as DuckDuckGo took over 4 years to hit that mark, and Google took over 1 year.

Brave Browser has 35.6 million daily active users. The daily active users has increased by 21.58% over the previous year, up from 25.3 million users in January 2024.

The average number of daily active users on Brave Browser has grown 24x since January 2019.

We've charted Brave Browser's daily active users since November 2018:

Brave Browser has 82.7 million monthly active users. The average number of monthly active users on Brave has grown 13.19% since last year.

Here's a table showing the monthly active users on Brave Browser since July 2019:

Brave offers mobile browsing apps for both iOS and Android.

The Brave Browser for iPhone users was downloaded over 800,000 times in January 2025 alone.

The Android app received even more downloads. It was installed over 2 million times with all-time downloads exceeding 100 million.

Approximately 74.69% of Brave Browser users are male compared to 25.31% female. In comparison, Google Chrome's userbase is 61.67% male vs 38.33% female.

Brave has 175 employees, working remotely across 5 different continents. 115 are located in the United States, 49 in Europe, 28 in Asia, 11 in South America, and 8 in Africa.

Here's a table of the employee distribution:

Brave's rise reflects a clear trend: users are choosing privacy and efficiency.

Its impressive user numbers and search volumes show a growing preference for secure, ad-free browsing.

As Brave continues to grow, it signals a broader move towards safeguarding online privacy.