Kagi vs OsirisBrain vs Perplexity Sonar API vs MaxAI

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

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Kagi
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OsirisBrain
Competitor 2
Perplexity Sonar API
Competitor 3
MaxAI
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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.
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Competitor OsirisBrain
osirisbrain.com
OsirisBrain is a single frontier reasoning model sold through an OpenAI-compatible API.
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Competitor Perplexity Sonar API
docs.perplexity.ai
Perplexity Sonar API is the developer platform behind Perplexity's real-time web research, exposed as a Router API, an Agent API, a Search API and an Embeddings API.
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Competitor MaxAI
maxai.co
MaxAI is a browser extension and web app that adds an AI sidebar to whatever page you have open.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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334visits/mo
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6-month growth
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Global rank web
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Avg. last 3 months
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111
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Bounce rate lower is better
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40%
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Pages / visit
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1.0
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Pricing
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Starting price
$5per month
$5per month · free tier available
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$12per month · free tier available
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Plans
Trial FreeStarter $5/moProfessional $10/moUltimate $25/mo
Starter $5Pro $20Enterprise Custom
Router API CustomAgent API CustomSearch API CustomEmbeddings API Custom+1 more
Free FreePro $12/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
Web pagesText
CodeText
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ImagesWeb pagesTextDocumentsCode
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TextCode
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TextImagesCode
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Advanced
Advanced
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Chatbots & CompanionsEducation & LearningLifestyle & EntertainmentProductivity & Office+6 more
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI API
Chatbots & CompanionsEducation & LearningProductivity & OfficeVideo Editing+7 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Chatbots
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Summarizing
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Translations
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LLM gateway
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Browser
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Developer tools
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Search engine
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Web search
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AI search
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Information retrieval
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News
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Paraphrasing
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Video summaries
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Web search summaries
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Writing
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Agents
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Coding
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Development
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Document summarization
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Grammar checking
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Image generation
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LLM development
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Model routing
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Research
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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.