Search for everyone

bbor

Yes, sir(s)! Using a search engine without ads is such a life improvement that it’d be a steal at twice the price. Imagine DuckDuckGo but with no ads and good results every time instead of 90% of the time… absolute game changer. EDIT: put another way; if you think ads don’t work on you, you’re just not aware enough. Ads work on everyone —in the moment and otherwise- and search ads are the most effective ads in history. That’s why Google is explicitly built around using their money printer to pay into a long list of “bets”, hoping to find the next money printer before people realize how insidious this one is.

egecant

I love Kagi. I especially appreciate how it pushes back against AI slop and makes the web feel more human again. I haven't looked back at Google since switching. The search results are consistently better. My favorite feature is Smallweb [0]. I've actually replaced doomscrolling with browsing random personal blogs and discovering interesting corners of the internet. [0] https://kagi.com/smallweb/

smodo

Kagi is really good. And I never thought I would say this but their AI assistent actually works. It is well integrated with their search product to deliver actually usefully results. That said I’ve had a hard time getting other people on board. Apparently many people are just numb to the enshittification of the web?

ActionHank

I tried Kagi for a couple of months and then cancelled. I really liked the AI search, but it burns through credits too quickly. I have since switched to using Hermes, it's not quite as good yet, but it's a fraction of the cost. I liked the idea of ad free, slop free search. There were some problems with that though, which were hard to push past. I really like being able to search for stores and local restaurants. Maps integrations were hit or miss, mostly miss. It was also weirdly slow for me, even to load the search page without a query. Final point was their published and then unpublished support of Yandex. The CEO tried to argue some "search without borders" BS, but really they are taking your money that and sending some of it to a Russian company which is either directly or indirectly funding a pointless war. I took issue with that and remembered it every single time I opened the page. In particular it really didn't sit well with me that the response was flippant and then they took down their list of sources. I've switched to DDG and have been happier, YMMV.

hakunin

For some reason after latest MacOS update (27.2) Kagi extension for Safari started failing frequently. I have Kagi configured to redirect Google, but now I just see Google search show up and stay there. It only redirects if I click the Kagi extension button myself. Seems like a bug, but happens so often that it really ruins the experience.

vesrah

I've been a Kagi subscriber for a while now, the only non-Kagi workflow I end up using frequently is !gm instead of using the Kagi maps. Hopefully that gap closes up in the future.

pluc

Cool, I'm in

dude250711

Meh, I'd rather see some early 2000s level Google ads then have a yet another account + subscription, please.

jwr

I'll re-subscribe to Kagi instantly the moment they announce they stopped paying Russian businesses (for data). That is the only showstopper for me.

syntaxing

This is a really good move. I noticed this yesterday when I was in private mode in Orion and the Kagi search went through.

furyofantares

I'm a happy Kagi subscriber for 3 years? 4 years now? Not sure. I love the philosophy of just taking money from users and working on giving them what they want and having nobody else to answer to, and I think the results from that philosophy have been excellent. But my biggest (only) complaints are difficult to solve for a paid search engine that requires login. First, sometimes I end up logged out. And maybe I've changed my password in the meantime and it's not saved on the machine I'm logged out on. It is supremely frustrating to search for something and be met with a login screen instead, and enraging if I can't immediately solve it by logging in. I'm hopeful that I can actually just search logged out now if this happens, and log in after I'm done with what I was doing. The second is the requirement to install a browser extension in order to search from the unified search/url bar. I really wish browser vendors -- or, well, Apple is the only one I care about -- would support it directly. I think they don't want to support a search engine that requires an account. It would be cool if the 100 free searches is progress in this direction but I'm not sure if it will be.

darkamaul

I'm a happy subscriber / user of Kagi, but I don't understand why their API usage is not _included_ within your plan. If my agents are running internet search for me; why should I pay extra? My usage of Kagi has diminished since the raise of agents, so it should compensate. Maybe simply adding a soft cap to prevent abuse, but that's a bit lame to have to pay twice.

mzhaase

The thing I use most is kagi AI assistant. They have a bunch of models like Deepseek 4.1 and I don't think they have any usage limit.

araoz

I'd love to use Kagi, if only there was a $5-7 plan with only search, no AI. There's a million other better AI providers/gateways/whatever at API prices, doesnt work for coding, and subscriptions are better value. For me it makes no sense.

0xbadcafebee

I might use them if their search results were better. But DDG's results are the same and free.

blissofbeing

I was surprised to find out Kagi and google results by default are very similar because Kagi uses google results, they have their own index too apparently but it's not used as much.

ethin

I love Kagi and have been a very happy subscriber for like a couple years now. There were a few times where I would search for things and get some very, very weird results (e.g., when looking for GH repos, I'd find things at the top from places like gitmemory (I think that's what it was called)) and I thought that was very odd, but it hasn't really happened again in a few days so I don't know if it was just a bug or what.

drcongo

If you're reading this Kagi people, I salute you.

Mawr

Still no option to pay on a per search basis? Still not remotely interested then. I don't search nearly enough to justify paying for a search engine subscription.

jherskovic

Another happy subscriber here. The assistant is genuinely good, and the search is like Google back when Google was good. Love it, happy to pay for it.