Ad-free subscription search engine with an optional AI assistant
Kagi is a search engine you pay for instead of one that shows ads. There is no advertising and no tracking profile built from your queries, results can be reordered and boosted per domain, and filters shrink a search to a chosen set of sources. Alongside search it offers an assistant that answers with citations, a summariser for long pages and a translation tool. Small-team and family plans exist, and an API is available. The trade-off is straightforward: no free tier worth relying on, and the value depends on how much you dislike ad-driven results and how often you tune your own ranking rules.
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privacy-minded research, ad-free search, custom result ranking and reading long pages
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Not in any practical sense. A very small number of searches is available for evaluation, and everyday use requires a subscription, which is exactly how the product avoids advertising.
Lenses limit a search to a set of sources you trust for a topic, and ranking rules raise or lower domains across all your searches. Both are personal settings rather than shared team policy.
AI features are metered separately within the subscription tiers, since every answer consumes model tokens. Check the tier allowances before relying on the assistant for daily research.
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