Kagi vs Consensus vs Phind vs ChatGPT

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

Your tool
Kagi
vs
Competitor 1
Consensus
Competitor 2
Phind
Competitor 3
ChatGPT
Compare
4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Kagi
kagi.com
Kagi is a paid search engine with no ads and no tracking, funded entirely by subscribers rather than advertisers.
Remove
Competitor Consensus
consensus.app
Scientific answers from peer-reviewed research
Make main Remove
Competitor Phind
phind.com
AI search for developers who hate searching
Make main Remove
Competitor ChatGPT
chatgpt.com
Your AI assistant for everything
Make main Remove
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
—
5.8Mvisits/mo
35Kvisits/mo
5.6Bvisits/mo
MoM change
—
▲ 3.5%
▲ 219.8%
▲ 3.5%
6-month growth
—
+14.4%
-38.9%
-1.6%
Global rank web
—
#9,859
#2,321,099
#7
Avg. last 3 months
—
5.5M
21.2K
5.5B
Bounce rate lower is better
—
43%
66%
30%
Pages / visit
—
4.1
1.3
4.3
Visit duration
—
3m 56s
8s
6m 35s
Traffic sources
—
● Direct 84% · ● Referral 14%
● Direct 80% · ● Referral 18%
● Direct 95% · ● Referral 3%
KagiConsensusPhindChatGPT
01.5B2.9B4.4B5.8BConsensus · 4.4MConsensus · 4.1MConsensus · 3.9MConsensus · 4MConsensus · 5.1MConsensus · 5.9MConsensus · 5.7MConsensus · 5MConsensus · 5.6MConsensus · 5.8MPhind · 414.1KPhind · 484.8KPhind · 249.4KPhind · 118.6KPhind · 57.4KPhind · 36.4KPhind · 21.3KPhind · 17.6KPhind · 11KPhind · 35KChatGPT · 5.8BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6B10K100K1M10M100M1B10BConsensus · 4.4MConsensus · 4.1MConsensus · 3.9MConsensus · 4MConsensus · 5.1MConsensus · 5.9MConsensus · 5.7MConsensus · 5MConsensus · 5.6MConsensus · 5.8MPhind · 414.1KPhind · 484.8KPhind · 249.4KPhind · 118.6KPhind · 57.4KPhind · 36.4KPhind · 21.3KPhind · 17.6KPhind · 11KPhind · 35KChatGPT · 5.8BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$5per month
$8.99per month · free tier available
$15per month · free tier available
$8per month · free tier available
Free tier
–
Free trial
–
–
–
API access
–
–
–
–
Plans
Trial FreeStarter $5/moProfessional $10/moUltimate $25/mo
—
—
Free FreeGo $8/moPlus $20/moPro 5x $100/mo+1 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
Web pagesText
Text
TextCode
AudioTextImagesDocumentsCode
Output
Text
Text
TextCode
TextImagesCodeAudio
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Intermediate
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Chatbots & CompanionsEducation & LearningLifestyle & EntertainmentProductivity & Office+6 more
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool+1 more
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI Coding AssistantAI Search Engine
Chatbots & CompanionsDevelopment & CodeEducation & LearningImage Editing+27 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
8
8
6
19
Search engine
Research
–
AI search
–
–
Chatbots
–
–
Summarizing
–
–
Translations
–
–
Coding
–
–
Developer search engine
–
–
–
Research papers
–
–
–
Academic research
–
–
–
Blogging
–
–
–
Copywriting
–
–
–
Email writing
–
–
–
Essay writing
–
–
–
Grammar checking
–
–
–
Image generation
–
–
–
Image to text
–
–
–
Literature reviews
–
–
–
Medical research
–
–
–
News
–
–
–
Research papers summaries
–
–
–
Scientific research
–
–
–
Search
–
–
–
Searching
–
–
–
Writing
–
–
–
Browser
–
–
–
Code documentation
–
–
–
Debugging
–
–
–
Image editing
–
–
–
Image to image
–
–
–
Community on aitoolstime
Rating
no ratings yet
no ratings yet
no ratings yet
★ 4.34 ratings
Upvotes
▲ 0
▲ 0
▲ 2
▲ 17
Saves
0
0
0
4
Reviews
0
0
0
4
Prompts
0
0
0
17
Verified listing
–
–
–
–

Traffic figures are third-party estimates for the tool's own domain; tools sharing a domain with a bigger product are not counted. Pricing is captured from each tool's site and may lag.