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Type of site | Web search engine |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2018 |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto, California |
| Country of origin | USA |
| CEO | Vladimir Prelovac |
| Key people | Vladimir Prelovac, Raghu Murthi, Dr. Norman Winarsky |
| URL | www |
| Advertising | No |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Required |
| Current status | Online |
Kagi (/ˈkɑːɡi/KAH-gee[† 1]) is a paid ad-freesearch engine developed by Kagi Inc., a company located inPalo Alto, California.[† 1]
The name means "key" inJapanese (鍵).[† 1]
Kagi functions as ametasearch engine to aggregate search results from other established search engines with its own indexes for websites and news.[† 2] They run their own crawler under the brand name Teclis,[† 3] although this index is only used for small-web searches.[1] In 2024, Kagi removed mentions of traditional search engines from their list of search sources; before this, these sources includedGoogle,Brave Search,Mojeek andYandex.[2]
The search engine allows results to be filtered by category with a feature called lenses and allows the user to create their own lenses. Some lenses include filtering to find discussions,podcasts, search directly forPDF files, and filtering to focus content from smaller websites like blogs and forums.[3][4] Websites shown in search results can be upvoted, downvoted, and blocked.[5] Shortcuts called bangs can be created which allow searches to be redirected to different websites.[6] There is also an AI quick response feature that summarizes a search query and gives sources.[4][7] Details about websites can be shown in the search results such as when it was created and how many ads andtrackers it has.
Kagi allows for customization of the user interface, including a customCSS editor.[3]
| Orion Browser | |
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| Developer | Kagi Inc. |
| Repository | github |
| Operating system | |
| License | Proprietaryfreeware |
| Website | orionbrowser |
Orion Browser is aproprietary browser developed by Kagi Inc. that is based on theWebKit engine and is similar toSafari but with different features, such as supportingWebExtensions. Although they are working on goingopen source, Orion Browser is not fully open source yet.[† 4] Orion Browser is designed to be used with Kagi, but users have the option to use any search engine.[4][8][9] It is only available onmacOS andiOS devices, with Kagi Inc. stating a potentialWindows version sometime in the future, and is still in beta.
On March 7, 2025, Kagi Inc. announced that development of Orion Browser forLinux had begun.[† 5]
On November 7, 2024, Kagi Translate was introduced. Its aim is to provide better translation results thanGoogle Translate orDeepL. Kagi Translate is free and can be used without an account.[† 6]
Kagi has noads or sponsored search results, being based on an account-based, subscription service instead.[4][10][11] Kagi allows users 100 free searches before they must subscribe to one of the monthly subscription plan tiers[12] below:
Kagi had around 50,000 subscribed members as of June 9, 2025 and 845,200 searches were made that day.[7]
The site claims not to collect user actions such as searches.[7]
In 2025, the company implemented the privacy pass protocol in their search product,[† 8] allowing users to authenticate as a paying user while not being identifiable.[13] The same day, the company also announced the availability of their services on Tor.[† 9]
The KagiAPI is currently in a 'v0' beta status, with ongoing changes and feature additions.
Kagi has the following APIs (Paid):
And the following non-paid API:
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