The popular cryptocurrency-powered Brave browser has surpassed 30 million daily active users (DAU) as it continues to see month-on-month growth while focusing on growth and retention.
That’s according to Brave’s co-founder and CEO Brendan Eich, who in a post on the microblogging platform X (formerly known as Twitter) revealed that Brave’s daily active users are now above 30 million after growing around 1% in September. Its monthly active users are above 83 million when a historical measuring method is applied, and above 71.6 million when using a visible funnel method.
@Brave September statsBrowser (historical method)MAU: 83.08M (+2.5% normalized to 31 days)DAU: 30.60M (HWM +1.1%; 28 day mean: 29.23M +4.1%)DAU/MAU: 0.35Browser (visible funnel method)MAU: 71.66M (+2.7%)DAU: 30.13M (HWM +0.8%; 28 day mean: 28.80M +4.2%)DAU/MAU: 0.42/4
— BrendanEich (@BrendanEich) October 9, 2024
Brave’s privacy-focused search engine, Brave Search, has also seen significant growth last month, topping 1 billion queries per minute (QPM) and seeing an annualized queries per minute nearing the 12 billion mark after growing by 8.4%.
According to Eich’s data, QPM from non-Brave browser users stands at around 8% of total QPM. The open-source browser has been steadily growing since it was launched, according to the regular monthly stats Eich published as part of the project’s commitment to transparency.
Brave, which operates as a free web browser with built-in ad-blocking, relies upon the cryptocurrency brave attention coin (BAT) to drive its creator marketplace. Browser users are able to earn BAT for watching privacy-respecting advertisements and contribute these tokens towards supporting their favorite content.
The browser has over time expanded to also support artificial intelligence (AI) features, including an assistant called Leo, as well as a Virtual Private Network (VPN) included in a paid plan.
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