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title: "Brave browser passes 100 million monthly active users"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/brave-browser-passes-100-million-monthly-active-users-ckaoxflk6
source_url: https://brave.com/blog/100m-mau/
type: article
source: "Brave"
published: 2025-10-01T18:01:31.029Z
updated: 2025-10-01T18:01:50.369Z
tags: ["ai", "privacy"]
reading_time: 10
upvotes: 347
comments: 39
language: en
---

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# Brave browser passes 100 million monthly active users

**[Brave](https://daily.dev/sources/brave)** · 10 min read · 347 upvotes · 39 comments

## Summary

Brave browser reached 101 million monthly active users in September 2024, growing at 2.5 million users per month. Brave Search now handles 20 billion annualized queries with its independent index. The company has expanded into a privacy-focused ecosystem including Leo AI assistant, VPN services, and a cryptocurrency wallet, while building sustainable revenue through privacy-respecting ads, search API, and premium subscriptions. Brave emphasizes privacy-by-default design across all products, using aggregate analytics that don't collect personal user data.

## Full article

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@victormoni** · 17 upvotes

> I am one of them 😁👍

**@nubprogrammer** · 5 upvotes

> switched from chrome to that, W decision

**@tekn0wledg** · 5 upvotes

> I switched to Brave a few years ago and haven't switched back. Happy to see this!

**@petecapecod** · 4 upvotes

> Congrats Brave 👏🏻🎉 it's such a nicer experience than Chrome 😂

**@byteoutlaw** · 3 upvotes

> This is serious progress! Congratz! :)

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