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Kagi

Kagi is a paid ad-free search engine developed by Kagi Inc., a company located in Palo Alto, California.

Features
Kagi Kagi functions as a metasearch engine to aggregate search results from other established search engines with its own indexes for websites and news. They run their own crawler under the brand name Teclis, As of April 2024, Kagi listed sources that it sourced its searches from as including Google, Brave Search, Mojeek and Yandex. Shortcuts called bangs can be created which allow searches to be redirected to different websites. There is also an AI quick response feature that summarizes a search query and gives sources. but with different features, such as supporting WebExtensions. Although they are working on going open source, Orion Browser is not fully open source yet. Orion Browser is designed to be used with Kagi, but users have the option to use any search engine. It is only available on macOS, iOS and iPadOS devices. On March 7, 2025, Kagi Inc. announced that development of Orion Browser for Linux had begun. In June 2025, Lifehacker praised Orion's ad blocking by default and faulted it for not supporting tab management or VPNs. The Assistant uses generative artificial intelligence models from third party AI providers which are accessed anonymously with their respective APIs to preserve user privacy and can use Kagi Search to improve their output. Users can choose the AI model they want to use. Willow Roberts for Digital Trends also appreciated how easy it was to fact-check due to hyperlinked inline citations. It's similar to Google Translate but will also give multiple options to choose from, explaining the differences. with customisable topics and sections in each summary. == Business model ==
Business model
Kagi has no ads or sponsored search results, being based on an account-based, subscription service instead. Kagi allows users 100 free searches before they must subscribe to one of the monthly subscription plan tiers below: • A $5 tier that allows for 300 searches a month (formerly 500) • A $10 tier that allows for unlimited monthly searches • A $25 tier that allows for unlimited searches and early access to new features. Kagi had around 50,000 subscribed members as of June 9, 2025 and 845,200 searches were made that day. == Privacy ==
Privacy
The site claims not to collect user actions such as searches. In 2025, the company implemented the privacy pass protocol in their search product, allowing users to authenticate as a paying user while not being identifiable. The same day, the company also announced the availability of their services on Tor. == API ==
API
The Kagi API is currently in a 'v0' beta status, with ongoing changes and feature additions. Kagi has the following APIs (Paid): • Kagi Search API (invite only at the moment) • Universal Summarizer API (public) • FastGPT API (public) • Web and News Enrichment API (public, exposes Kagi's own indexes Teclis and TinyGem) And the following non-paid API: • Kagi Small Web RSS feed (public) == See also ==
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