Software:Kagi

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Kagi (/ˈkɑːɡi/ KAH-gee[† 1]) is a paid ad-free search engine developed by Kagi Inc., a company located in Palo Alto, California.[† 1]

The name means "key" in Japanese (鍵).[† 1]

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.[† 2] They run their own crawler under the brand name Teclis,[† 3] although this index is only used for small-web searches.[1] In 2024, Kagi removed mentions of traditional search engines from their list of search sources; before this, these sources included Google, Brave Search, Mojeek and Yandex.[2]

The search engine allows results to be filtered by category with a feature called lenses and allows the user to create their own lenses. Some lenses include filtering to find discussions, podcasts, search directly for PDF files, and filtering to focus content from smaller websites like blogs and forums.[3][4] Websites shown in search results can be upvoted, downvoted, and blocked.[5] Shortcuts called bangs can be created which allow searches to be redirected to different websites.[6] There is also an AI quick response feature that summarizes a search query and gives sources.[4][7] Details about websites can be shown in the search results such as when it was created and how many ads and trackers it has.

Kagi allows for customization of the user interface, including a custom CSS editor.[3]

Orion Browser

Orion Browser
Developer(s)Kagi Inc.
Repositorygithub.com/OrionBrowser
Operating system
Websitekagi.com/orion/

Orion Browser is a browser developed by Kagi Inc. that is based on the WebKit engine and is similar to Safari but with different features, such as supporting WebExtensions. Although they are working on going open source, Orion Browser is not fully open source yet.[† 4] Orion Browser is designed to be used with Kagi, but users have the option to use any search engine.[4][8][9] It is only available on macOS and iOS devices, with Kagi Inc. stating a potential Windows version sometime in the future, and is still in beta.

On March 7, 2025, Kagi Inc. announced that development of Orion Browser for Linux had begun.[† 5]

Kagi Translate

On November 7, 2024, Kagi Translate was introduced. Its aim is to provide better translation results than Google Translate or DeepL. Kagi Translate is free and can be used without an account.[† 6]

Business model

Kagi has no ads or sponsored search results, being based on an account-based, subscription service instead.[4][10][11] Kagi allows users 100 free searches before they must subscribe to one of the monthly subscription plan tiers[12] below:

  1. A $5 tier that allows for 300 searches a month (formerly 500)
  2. A $10 tier that allows for unlimited monthly searches
  3. A $25 tier[† 7] that allows for unlimited searches and early access to new features.[6][11]

Kagi had around 50,000 subscribed members as of June 9, 2025 and 845,200 searches were made that day.[7]

Privacy

The site claims not to collect user actions such as searches.[7]

In 2025, the company implemented the privacy pass protocol in their search product,[† 8] allowing users to authenticate as a paying user while not being identifiable.[13] The same day, the company also announced the availability of their services on Tor.[† 9]

API

The Kagi API is currently in a 'v0' beta status, with ongoing changes and feature additions.

Kagi has the following APIs (Paid):

  1. Kagi Search API (invite only at the moment)
  2. Universal Summarizer API (public)
  3. FastGPT API (public)
  4. Web and News Enrichment API (public, exposes Kagi's own indexes Teclis and TinyGem)

And the following non-paid API:

  1. Kagi Small Web RSS feed (public) [† 10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT". https://danluu.com/seo-spam/. 
  2. ↑ "Search Sources | Kagi's Docs" (in en-US). https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Currie, Jason (2022-08-10). "What Is Kagi Search and What Can You Do With It?" (in en). https://www.makeuseof.com/what-is-kagi-search/. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Pierce, David (2023-10-01). "The best Google alternative I've tried yet" (in en). https://www.theverge.com/23896415/kagi-search-google-meta-quest-3-chatgpt-macos-sonoma-installer-newsletter. 
  5. ↑ Master, Web (2023-05-12). "Kagi Search Gets Major Upgrade" (in en-US). https://greycoder.com/kagi-search-gets-major-upgrade/. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Ivanovs, Alex (2023-09-24). "Google Search vs. Kagi - Is paying for a search engine the future?" (in en-US). https://stackdiary.com/google-search-vs-kagi/. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Claburn, Thomas (2024-01-30). "AI is changing search, for better or worse" (in en). https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/30/ai_is_changing_search/. 
  8. ↑ Ashwin (2022-06-03). "Orion is a browser for macOS that supports Firefox and Chrome extensions" (in en-US). https://www.ghacks.net/2022/06/03/orion-browser-for-macos-firefox-and-chrome-extensions/. 
  9. ↑ Smith, Ernie (2022-01-21). "Orion Browser: A Future Best Web Browser for the Mac?" (in en). https://tedium.co/2022/01/19/orion-web-browser-macos-kagi-profile/. 
  10. ↑ Koebler, Jason (2024-04-03). "Friendship Ended With GOOGLE Now KAGI Is My Best Friend" (in en). https://www.404media.co/friendship-ended-with-google-now-kagi-is-my-best-friend/. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Ashworth, Boone; Nield, David; Burgess, Matt (2023-11-26). "How to Make Your Web Searches More Secure and Private" (in en-US). Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-make-web-searches-secure-private/. Retrieved 2024-01-19. 
  12. ↑ Parab, Pranay (2023-10-19). "Does Kagi Making It Worth Paying to Search the Internet?". https://lifehacker.com/kagi-paid-search-engine-review-1850936944. 
  13. ↑ Davidson, Alex; Goldberg, Ian; Sullivan, Nick; Tankersley, George; Valsorda, Filippo (2018). "Privacy Pass: Bypassing Internet Challenges Anonymously". Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. doi:10.1515/popets-2018-0026. ISSN 2299-0984. https://petsymposium.org/popets/2018/popets-2018-0026.php. 

Primary sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "About | Kagi's Docs". https://help.kagi.com/kagi/company/. 
  2. ↑ "Search Sources | Kagi's Docs". https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html. 
  3. ↑ "Teclis - Non-commercial Web Search". https://teclis.com/. 
  4. ↑ "Orion F.A.Q.". https://kagi.com/orion/faq.html#oss. 
  5. ↑ "Kagi HQ (@kagi.com)". Bluesky Social. https://bsky.app/profile/kagi.com/post/3ljqsgjmkpk2n. 
  6. ↑ "Kagi Translate - We speak your language" (in en-US). 2024-11-07. https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-translate. 
  7. ↑ "Plan Types | Kagi's Docs". https://help.kagi.com/kagi/plans/plan-types.html. 
  8. ↑ Prelovac, Vladimir. "Introducing Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search" (in en). https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass. 
  9. ↑ "Using Kagi with Tor | Kagi's Docs". https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/tor.html. 
  10. ↑ "Overview | Kagi's Docs". https://help.kagi.com/kagi/api/overview.html. 



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