Brave Leo vs Claude vs Merlin

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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Brave Leo
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Competitor 1
Claude
Competitor 2
Merlin
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for Brave Leo: MaxAI85% Glarity84% ChatGPT83% Monica83% Gemini82% Microsoft Copilot for Android80% Mistral Vibe78% Microsoft Copilot78%
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3 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Brave Leo
brave.com
Brave Leo is the AI assistant built into the Brave browser.
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Competitor Claude
claude.ai
AI assistant built to be helpful, harmless, and honest
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Competitor Merlin
getmerlin.in
AI assistant in your browser
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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950.2Mvisits/mo
1.2Mvisits/mo
MoM change
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▼ 2.0%
▼ 13.8%
6-month growth
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+54.8%
-9.1%
Global rank web
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#40
#46,011
Avg. last 3 months
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955.4M
1.3M
Bounce rate lower is better
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26%
50%
Pages / visit
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4.5
2.5
Visit duration
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6m 14s
4m 15s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 93% · ● Referral 5%
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 14%
Brave LeoClaudeMerlin
0242.3M484.7M727M969.3MClaude · 180.3MClaude · 172.7MClaude · 202.9MClaude · 290.3MClaude · 613.7MClaude · 823.5MClaude · 952.6MClaude · 946.8MClaude · 969.3MClaude · 950.2MMerlin · 1.5MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.2MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.2M1M10M100M1BClaude · 180.3MClaude · 172.7MClaude · 202.9MClaude · 290.3MClaude · 613.7MClaude · 823.5MClaude · 952.6MClaude · 946.8MClaude · 969.3MClaude · 950.2MMerlin · 1.5MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.2MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.2MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$59.99per month · free tier available
$20per month · free tier available
$29per month · free tier available
Free tier
Free trial
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API access
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Plans
Brave Browser FreeBrave Origin $59.99Brave Firewall + VPN Custom/moBrave Talk Premium Custom/mo
Free FreePro $20/moMax 5x $100/moMax 20x $200/mo
Free FreePro $29/moTeams $15/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
Web pagesTextDocumentsCode
CodeTextImagesDocuments
CodeDocumentsTextWeb pages
Output
TextCode
TextSlidesDocumentsDataCode
TextImagesCode
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Chatbots & CompanionsDevelopment & CodeProductivity & OfficeWriting & Content+4 more
Chatbots & CompanionsDevelopment & CodeEducation & LearningProductivity & Office+19 more
Chatbots & CompanionsDesign & CreativeDevelopment & CodeEducation & Learning+21 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 5 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
10
26
13
Chatbots
Summarizing
Coding
Writing
Translations
Document summarization
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Copywriting
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Email writing
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Chrome extensions
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APIs
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Agents
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Code reviews
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Debugging
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Essay writing
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Image generation
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Large language models
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PDF analysis
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Paraphrasing
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Research
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Social media
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Social media posts
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Terminal
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Video summaries
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Web research summarization
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Blogging
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Browser
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Code documentation
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Grammar checking
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Mind maps
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PDFs
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