Enterprise browsers · RankedBrave
Brave is a Chromium-based web browser with built-in ad and tracker blocking, designed with a focus on privacy · brave.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Microsoft Edge for Business is first at 31%.
Microsoft Edge for Business is first at 39%.
Chrome Enterprise is first at 38%.
Why models recommend it
“Choose Brave when your organization deliberately prioritizes privacy-first defaults”Muse Glimmer 30B · Comparative question · alternative
“Brave Enterprise / Firefox for Enterprise (Best for High Privacy Needs)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Choose Brave Business If: Privacy is a top organizational priority”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · alternative
“Choose Brave if privacy and anti-tracking are the main goals.”GPT-5.4 mini · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Brave - also considered a "criticized challenger" by IT AI Recommendation Index, with 80% negative labels and 7 hard negatives.”Llama 4 Maverick · Negative question · warning
“Avoid for Now: Dedicated secure browsers like Brave (great for privacy but limited enterprise management)”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Avoid or be cautious with Brave and Firefox ESR for enterprise use.”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“Consumer privacy browsers used as enterprise security platforms. Brave, Tor, and standard Firefox can improve privacy, but privacy features do not substitute for corporate DLP”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Brave, over the 39 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 16 | View → | |
| 25 | 16 | View → | |
| 25 | 4 | View → | |
| 20 | 1 | View → | |
| 15 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 5 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Brave →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Brave's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- developer tool for building applications with data from the Web
- Price stated
- Brave is completely free to use.
- Free plan or trial
- completely free to use
- Certifications
- SOC 2, GDPR, PCI DSS
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 37 of the 39 answers that named Brave and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
143 of the 158 domain citations in answers naming Brave came from a third party's page. Fifteen were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 429 | 5 | 2026-09-03 | CDN | |
| Comparison | 232 | 0 | 2022-11-15 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 218 | 3 | 2026-08-14 | MFA, Vector databases | |
| Podcast or video | 202 | 13 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Report or ebook | 79 | 0 | 2026-06-29 | ||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-29E140 podcast or video
- 2026-09-23E139 podcast or video
- 2026-09-16E138 podcast or video
- 2026-09-09E137 podcast or video
- 2026-09-03What a pizza-ordering hackathon reveals about connecting AI agents to the Web | Brave blog
- 2026-09-02Brave outperforms other browsers blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page brave.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.