Kagi is a paid search engine with no ads and no tracking, funded entirely by subscribers rather than advertisers. Results come with customization controls and filters, and the wider ecosystem adds Kagi Assistant for chatting with several AI models grounded in search results, the Orion browser, Kagi Translate, Kagi News and Kagi Summarize. A trial gives 100 searches. Starter costs $5 per month for 300 searches, Professional is $10 per month with unlimited searches, and Ultimate at $25 per month adds Research mode and flagship models. Monthly billing is quoted before sales tax.
People tired of sponsored results and click tracking are the natural audience: researchers, developers, writers, journalists and anyone who searches heavily each day. Families can share a plan, workplaces can adopt the Teams plan with private AI access, and libraries can offer students ad-free, untracked search. Heavy users usually land on Professional for unlimited queries, while those who want premium models for deeper research choose Ultimate. A fair pricing policy credits unused months to the next billing cycle.
Everyday uses include looking up technical answers without ad clutter, boosting or blocking domains to tune results, and asking Kagi Assistant questions with the same privacy protections. Kagi Translate converts text, pages and chats across more than 240 languages while keeping tone, Kagi Summarize condenses long articles into custom summaries, and Kagi News delivers private briefs on chosen topics. Orion supports Safari, Chrome and Firefox extensions with built-in ad-blocking, and Small Web surfaces non-commercial sites written by real people, useful for finding independent blogs and hobby projects.
