Arc Search vs Dia by The Browser Company vs Comet by Perplexity vs Brave Leo
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Arc Search
Free mobile browser that reads the web and builds one answer page
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Dia by The Browser Company
AI browser for work from the makers of Arc
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Comet by Perplexity
Perplexity's free AI browser with an assistant that acts on pages
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Brave Leo
The privacy-first AI assistant built into the Brave browser
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6 / 10 | 7 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 | 7 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Free | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free on iOS, iPadOS and Android: Browse for Me, Pinch to Summarize, voice search and ad and tracker blocking | Better Browser is free: profiles, tab groups, split view, ad and tracker blocking, sync, but no AI. New users get a 14-day Better Days trial, no card needed | Comet browser and Comet Assistant free on Mac, Windows, iOS and Android; some agent features (e.g. Background Assistants) launched Max-only | Free with no account: Qwen 3.6 35B, GPT 6 Luna, Nemotron Nano 3 30B, GLM 4.7 Flash and Claude Haiku 4.5, at standard rate limits |
| Paid from | — | Better Answers $10 or $20/mo (page lists both); Better Days $100/mo | Comet Plus $5/mo publisher-content add-on (included with Perplexity Pro and Max) | $14.99/month for Leo Premium ($149.99/year) |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — | — | — |
| Founded | 2024 | 2025 | 2025 | 2023 |
| Maker | The Browser Company of New York (Atlassian) | Atlassian (acquired October 2025) | Perplexity AI, Inc. | Brave Software, Inc. |
| Verdict | Browse for Me is still the reason to install it: ask a question and Arc Search reads several pages, then builds one tidy summary page instead of a list of links. For quick mobile lookups it beats a search-results loop, a... |
Dia has turned from an Arc successor into a work browser: it chats across your tabs and connected tools, briefs you each morning, preps meetings and turns context into reports and decks. The browser itself is polished an... |
Comet is the most complete agentic browser available for free: an assistant that understands your open tabs and can navigate and act on sites, across desktop and mobile, with an Enterprise edition for managed rollouts. T... |
Leo is the most convenient way to get private, in-context help inside Brave: no account on the free tier, chats kept only on the device, a free model list that includes Claude Haiku 4.5, and Bring Your Own Model for loca... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.