Kagi Search

Kagi is a user-funded, ad-free search engine that prioritizes privacy and unbiased results ^S32. It serves individuals, families, teams, and libraries seeking a distraction-free search experience without tracking ^S32. Its practical value lies in providing high-quality, private search with AI features and a meta-search API for developers ^{S1 S32}.

• Identity: Kagi is a privacy-focused, user-funded search engine and meta-search API provider ^{S1 S32}.
• Core purpose: To offer ad-free, private search that avoids tracking and AI-generated content ^{S32 S1}.
• Intended users: Individuals, families, teams, and libraries seeking private, productive search ^S32.
• Product scope: A web search engine with browser extensions, AI assistant, and a separate Search API for developers ^{S1 S32}.
• Positioning: Kagi positions itself as a privacy-first alternative to ad-supported search engines ^S32.
• Claimed distinction: It claims to search 12 sources with less AI slop and better results than single-index APIs ^S1.

Access multiple AI models without being tracked. Use the power of different LLMs, all grounded by Kagi search results, while keeping your prompts and data private. assistant.kagi.com: an estimated 174,543 total monthly visits and about 0 monthly organic visits across 0 ranking keywords. Scout crawled 1 pages and measured a technical health score of 88/100.

• Total traffic (modeled): 174,543 monthly visits across all channels.
• Organic search traffic (estimated): 0 monthly visits from search.
• Closest measured organic competitor: apps.apple.com, appearing 2 times in the sampled first-page SERPs.
• Technical crawl: 1 pages, health score 88/100.

Total website traffic

Domain identity

Website capture

Top organic keywords

Independent Google result page

Query: Kagi Assistant

No ranking page-level rows were returned for this domain.

This analysis created the first position baseline at 2026-10-18T04:31:01.553Z. Movement appears after the next fresh analysis using the same location and language.

No ranking keywords were available to establish a position baseline.

OpenRouterOpenRouterAggregates multiple AI models like Kagi, but focuses on developer API routing rather than a direct consumer chat interface.

1 verified

Sampled competitors

Backlink comparison profile

• Domain rating: 79/100
• Backlinks: 1,193
• Referring domains: 198
• Dofollow backlinks: 46.0%
• Dofollow referring domains: 65.0%

Collection decision

The Scout search index remains intentionally excluded from automatic Scout analysis. This Scout traffic model profile costs 5 credits (0.5 cents) and is included in the first comparison run so its usefulness can be judged before the recurring collection is finalized.

AI-assistant referral traffic

• Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 0.0%

Scout traffic model did not return a separate AI-referral trend series for this domain.

Independent reviews

Customer proof

No named customers, testimonials, or customer case studies were found.

Independent mentions

• Ask HN: Why do you trust Kagi? / Hacker News — I frequently see high praise for Kagi here, both for the quality of the search results as well as the ostensibly customer-friendly business decisions. ... ’t trust them or trust them less than any other company claiming to be privacy and security focused,
• How I Use Kagi / Hacker News — Privacy pass exists, but is limited to 1,500 tokens per month (3, batches of 500). Furthermore, they do not allow disabling safe search or customizing the results in any way (including your block lists) when using it.
• A three month review of kagi search and the orion web browser (2024) / Hacker News — used kagi for quite a while now, and i use it pretty much exclusively. I was unhappy with google ignoring many terms in my search queries and giving me results that I generally considered to be 'intro' pages and generic content, even when my searches were
• Back to Kagi / Hacker News — for a few years. I'd say that the biggest thing to me about it is that it does exactly what so many other sites nowadays seem to hate. It stays out of your way and allows itself to blend into the background, no sudden UI changes, no pop ups advertising
• Dumping Google’s enshittified search for Kagi - Ars Technica — The feature that convinced me to start paying for Kagi was its Privacy Pass option. Based on a clean-sheet Rust implementation of the Privacy Pass standard (IETF RFCs 9576, 9577, and 9578) by Raphael Robert, this is a technology that uses cryptographic token-based auth to send an “I’m a paying user, please give me results” signal to Kagi, without Kagi knowing which user made the request. (There’s a much longer Kagi blog post with actual technical details for the curious.) To search using the too
• Why not try Kagi? Serious question. / Hacker News — I'm a paying customer for Kagi, and I like it very much, but I don't use Google because it is part of FAMAG. As European, having a functioning European index is worth a lot more than Kagi. Though Kagi themselves also are building their own index, which is
• Kagi finally let me lay Google Search to rest / Hacker News — quality is excellent - certainly better than Google is today, and subjectively, feels as good at least as good as Google was at its ... . And notably I have never needed to fall back to Google; it's just a strict upgrade. I absolutely feel it's worth the

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

Every trust signal above is backed by a collected page or a registration record.

Not found in the collected public sources: public roadmap, status page, separate help center or knowledge base.

Not measurable: wayback: rate limited by archive.org, ladder stopped after 1 probe(s); rdap: exceeded the overall budget; wayback: exceeded the overall budget; tls: exceeded the overall budget; dns: exceeded the overall budget; headers: exceeded the overall budget. A gap here means the lookup was unavailable, not that the finding is negative.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

• Pages crawled: 1 of 15 maximum
• Technical health: 88/100
• Critical issues: 0
• Warnings: 2
• Notices: 1

Issues

Crawled pages

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

Modeled acquisition channels

First-party connections

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

Collected pages do not name competitors directly. Evidence gaps include lack of detailed security certifications, uptime statistics, and independent review ratings. Open questions remain about the long-term pricing for the Libraries program and the full scope of the API's rate limits.

This report is based on 12 of 15 collected pages from kagi.com, including the homepage, pricing, API, changelog, libraries, specials, and press pages. External proof search was used but not verified. Limitations include partial rendering of some pages and lack of third-party review data.

• Official Websitehttps://kagi.com/Verified
• Documentationhttps://kagi.com/products/apiVerified
• Pricing Pagehttps://kagi.com/pricingVerified
• Pricing Pagehttps://kagi.com/api/pricingVerified
• Official Websitehttps://kagi.com/changelogVerified
• Official Websitehttps://kagi.com/privacyVerified
• Official Websitehttps://kagi.com/assetsVerified
• Official Websitehttps://kagi.com/librariesVerified
• Official Websitehttps://kagi.com/pressVerified
• Official Websitehttps://kagi.com/specialsVerified
• Official Websitehttps://kagi.com/statsVerified
• Articlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43178217Verified
• Articlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44594475Verified
• Review Sitehttps://www.cyprien.io/posts/kagi/Verified
• Articlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42652125Verified
• Review Sitehttps://litmustools.com/review/kagi/Verified
• Review Sitehttps://gyibb.com/ai-search/kagiVerified
• Articlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49006195Verified
• Articlehttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/enough-is-enough-i-dumped-googles-worsening-search-for-kagi/Verified
• Articlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43319982Verified
• Articlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37852133Verified