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Kagi

Paid, ad-free search engine with a built-in multi-model AI assistant.

Category
Search
Pricing
PAID
Source
Proprietary
Hosting
Cloud
Platforms
WebAPI
Models
Multi-model
Verified
Jun 8, 2026

Kagi is a subscription-based, ad-free search engine that puts result quality and privacy ahead of advertising. Every paid plan now includes Kagi Assistant, which lets you chat with leading models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, and others against a fair-use token budget. Kagi also ships features like the Universal Summarizer and customizable result ranking.

Capabilities 4

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • Multi-model access (secondary capability)
  • Unified search (primary capability)
  • Cited answers (secondary capability)
  • Summarization (secondary capability)

Pros & cons

  • Ad-free, no tracking or data selling
  • Bundled multi-model AI Assistant
  • Customizable result ranking and blocklists
  • Universal Summarizer built in
  • Paid only — no free search tier
  • Smaller index than Google/Bing
  • AI usage capped by fair-use budget
  • Niche, requires browser/default switch

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