76
Stack Score
Best for
Heavy researchers and developers who value result quality and privacy enough to pay for search outright.
At a glance
- Pricing
- paidfrom $10/mo
- Setup time
- 5 minutes
- Learning curve
- easy
- Last verified
- 5/19/2026
What we love
- ✓Quality of results genuinely beats Google for technical queries
- ✓Personalization (domain boost/block) is uniquely powerful
- ✓No ads, no SEO spam farms in top results
- ✓Privacy posture is real — no ad model behind it
Where it falls short
- −Paid only — there is no free tier beyond 100 trial searches
- −Shopping and local search lag Google
- −Image search results are weaker than DuckDuckGo
Pricing
✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 20264 tiers
Trial
$0
100 searches
- ✓Full features
- ✓No card required
Starter
$5
per month
- ✓300 searches/month
- ✓Lenses
- ✓Quick Answer
Professional
$10
per month
- ✓Unlimited searches
- ✓Kagi Assistant
- ✓Universal Summarizer
Ultimate
$25
per month
- ✓Access to all premium LLMs
- ✓Higher usage caps
- ✓Family billing
Why we picked it
If you've been disillusioned with Google, Kagi is the alternative that's actually better.
Overview
Paid search engine with AI assistant (Kagi Assistant). Ad-free, customizable ranking, strong privacy.
Key features
- ●Ad-free search with no tracking or profiling
- ●Personalized ranking — block, boost, or pin domains
- ●Quick Answer summaries powered by LLMs
- ●Lenses for scoping search by topic (programming, academic, etc.)
- ●Universal Summarizer for any URL or document
- ●Kagi Assistant with multi-model chat (Claude, GPT, Gemini)
- ●Family plan and team plans available
Best use cases
Developer research
Search for documentation and GitHub issues without wading through SEO-farmed Stack Overflow clones.
Privacy-conscious daily search
Replace Google as a default search engine with no ad targeting or profile-building.
Academic and journalist research
Boost authoritative domains and demote content farms to surface primary sources first.
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