Productivity
Brave
Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-08-03 — deterministic & reproducible
Brave is a privacy-focused web browser that blocks ads and trackers by default.
Is Brave production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Brave 91 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Brave (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Security; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 85/100
- Accessibility — 93/100
- Security — 100/100
- Privacy — 70/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 92/100
- Discoverability — 100/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 41 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
- Discoverable: structured data, sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.
Who built it
Brendan Eich, Brian Bondy · product account @brave
Who it's for
Privacy-conscious users · Mobile users · Desktop users · Enterprise organizations · Content creators
Pricing
Free; Brave Firewall + VPN subscription available (one subscription covers up to 5 devices)