Berges AI vs Brave Leo
Leo is an assistant built into a browser, with nothing kept after the session. Berges AI is a chat you return to, with encrypted history and shaped output.
Brave Leo is the AI assistant inside the Brave browser. It summarizes the page you are on, answers questions about it, and chats, all through an anonymous proxy that Brave says discards conversations immediately after the reply. The free tier runs a mix of open and closed models; Premium adds larger ones. No account is needed, and you can point it at a model running on your own machine.
Berges AI is not in a browser; it is a place you go to think. Conversations are stored encrypted at rest so you can pick them up later, a reasoning model you pick does the work on every turn, and pipelines shape the answer. Two different jobs.
How they compare
What it is
History
Account
Models
Page context
Trains on your data
Paid plan
How they're different
In the page vs in a chat
Leo's strength is being where you already are: highlight text on a page, ask, done. Berges AI needs you to paste a link or the text, and in exchange gives you a conversation you can save, continue, export, and delete. If most of your questions are about the page in front of you, Leo is more convenient. If they are about your own work, a standalone chat is easier to live in.
Discard vs keep
Brave keeps nothing after the reply, which is the strongest possible retention policy and makes long-running work impossible by design. We keep conversations encrypted at rest so you can return to them, and let you delete any of them permanently. Different answers to what a chat is for.
Mixed models vs open weights only
Leo offers a mix, including closed models on Premium and the option to run a local model. Berges AI runs only open-weights models, hosted for you, with a reasoning model on every turn and pipelines that shape the output. Auditable models and controlled output are the product.
Things people ask about Berges AI vs Brave Leo
Is Brave Leo private?
By its design, yes: requests go through an anonymous proxy, conversations are discarded after the reply, and no account is needed. Your message still reaches a model provider to be answered, as with any chat.
Do I need Brave to use Leo?
Yes. Leo is a feature of the Brave browser. Berges AI works in any browser and does not care which one you use.
Which should I pick?
Both, if you use Brave: Leo for questions about the page you are reading, Berges AI for thinking and writing you want to keep, with answers that skip the filler.