x64
user scopeYandex.exe
- SHA-256
- 0db61c24419c9b7332c136a593fb088c16c0990ea0c7011a0d9119351b600862
Yandex Browser · earlier release
The URL Yandex published for this release, and the SHA-256 of every file in it, so you can prove the copy you have is that one and not something else wearing the same name.
Released 18 June 2026.
Yandex Browser is now on version 26.8.0.1788. An older build stops getting security fixes, so install one only when you have a reason: a plugin that broke, a machine that cannot run the new one, a bug you need to reproduce. If you just want Yandex Browser, take the current version.
Yandex.exe
The scope label says who the installer writes for. A user build installs into your own profile and needs no administrator rights; a machine build installs for everyone and does. On a work laptop where you cannot elevate, the user build is often the only one that will run at all. Silent install switches are on the same data.
Windows does this without installing anything. In PowerShell:
Get-FileHash .\Yandex.exe -Algorithm SHA256
Compare what it prints with the value above. If they match, your copy is byte-for-byte the one Yandex published. If they do not, it is a different file, whatever it is called and wherever it came from. Paste a hash into the verifier and it will tell you which release it belongs to.
If PowerShell is blocked by policy on the machine, the same thing works from plain cmd with certutil -hashfile Yandex.exe SHA256. On macOS or Linux it is shasum -a 256 Yandex.exe.
Publishers retire old releases, and we do not host copies, so a link from an earlier version can stop working without notice. Two ways it fails: an honest 404, or — more confusing — the server answers normally but hands you the current downloads page instead of the file. If what arrives is a few kilobytes of HTML rather than an installer, that is what happened.
The hash on this page stays useful either way. It still identifies Yandex Browser 26.4.5.646 wherever you find a copy, which is the whole point of publishing it: you can accept a file from somewhere else and still prove it is the one Yandex built.
Every Yandex Browser release we index · where this data comes from