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 ==