Dia by The Browser Company vs Brave Leo
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Dia by The Browser Company
AI-native browser from the makers of Arc
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Brave Leo
AI assistant built into the Brave browser
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 7 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | Free: Llama 3.1 8B, Claude Haiku, Qwen 3 14B, GLM 4.7 Flash; no account required |
| Paid from | Dia Pro $20/month (uncapped AI usage/Skills) | Leo Premium $14.99/mo ($149.99/yr) — Claude Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.6, Kimi K2.5, DeepSeek |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2024 | 2023 |
| Maker | — | — |
| Verdict | Dia is the most thoughtfully designed of the current AI-browser wave: instead of bolting a chatbot onto a browser, it builds around tab-scoped memory and reusable "Skills," and pairs that with genuinely better privacy de... |
Leo has the best-designed privacy story in mainstream browser AI: no account, no chat retention, third-party models proxied through AWS Bedrock with zero data retention, and — since April 2026 — a local Ocelot model that... |
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