Brave Browser Referral Code

Brave the browser is alive and actively developed. Brave the referral programme is not, and has not been for years — which is worth stating plainly, because listings for it are still everywhere.

There is no Brave referral code that pays anything, and there has not been for several years.

Brave began winding down its referral program on 9 November 2020. Referrals — counted as first opens driven by a referrer — were no longer eligible for payout after 23 November 2020. The separate creators referral programme continued in a reduced form for a while and was shut down entirely at the end of January 2023.

The reason is worth knowing, because it is the opposite of the usual story. The programme did not fail. Launched in early 2018 to distribute $1 million in BAT to content creators who brought new users to Brave, it overshot that goal by roughly thirteen times, paying out more than $12 million in BAT. It was closed because it worked far better than intended and became unsustainable at that scale, not because nobody used it.

Be clear about what is and is not dead. Brave the browser is very much alive, actively developed, and still running Brave Rewards — the BAT-based system that pays users for viewing privacy-preserving ads. Brave has continued to change how Rewards works and introduced a Rewards 3.0 Partner Program in 2025. What ended is specifically the arrangement where sharing a referral link earned you a payment when someone installed the browser.

So if you came here looking to earn by getting friends onto Brave, that route is closed. If you came looking to earn from using Brave, Brave Rewards still exists and is a different mechanism entirely — you opt in to ads and accumulate BAT for your own attention rather than for anyone else's signup.

Any site currently publishing a Brave referral code and promising a payout is describing a programme that stopped paying in 2020.