Kagi (search engine)#Orion Browser

Kagi functions as a metasearch engine to aggregate search results from other established search engines with its own indexes for websites and news.{{Cite web |title=Search Sources {{!}} Kagi's Docs |url=https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=help.kagi.com}} They run their own crawler under the brand name Teclis,{{Cite web |title=Teclis - Non-commercial Web Search |url=https://teclis.com/ |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=teclis.com}} although this index is only used for small-web searches.{{Cite web |title=How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT |url=https://danluu.com/seo-spam/ |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=danluu.com}}

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 for PDF files, and filtering to focus content from smaller websites like blogs and forums.{{Cite web |last=Currie |first=Jason |date=2022-08-10 |title=What Is Kagi Search and What Can You Do With It? |url=https://www.makeuseof.com/what-is-kagi-search/ |access-date=2024-01-19 |website=Make Use Of |language=en}} Websites shown in search results can be upvoted, downvoted, and blocked.{{Cite web |last=Master |first=Web |date=2023-05-12 |title=Kagi Search Gets Major Upgrade |url=https://greycoder.com/kagi-search-gets-major-upgrade/ |access-date=2024-01-19 |website=GreyCoder |language=en-US}} Shortcuts called bangs can be created which allow searches to be redirected to different websites.{{Cite web |last=Ivanovs |first=Alex |date=2023-09-24 |title=Google Search vs. Kagi - Is paying for a search engine the future? |url=https://stackdiary.com/google-search-vs-kagi/ |access-date=2024-01-19 |website=Stack Diary |language=en-US}} There is also an AI quick response feature that summarizes a search query and gives sources. Details about websites can be shown in the search results such as when it was created and how many ads and trackers it has.

Kagi allows for customization of the user interface, including a custom CSS editor.

Orion Browser is a browser developed by Kagi Inc. that is based on the WebKit engine and is similar to Safari but with different features, such as supporting WebExtensions. Although they are working on going open source, Orion Browser is not fully open source yet.{{Cite web |title=Orion F.A.Q. |url=https://kagi.com/orion/faq.html#oss |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=kagi.com}} Orion Browser is designed to be used with Kagi, but users have the option to use any search engine.{{Cite web |last=Ashwin |date=2022-06-03 |title=Orion is a browser for macOS that supports Firefox and Chrome extensions - gHacks Tech News |url=https://www.ghacks.net/2022/06/03/orion-browser-for-macos-firefox-and-chrome-extensions/ |access-date=2024-03-06 |website=gHacks Technology News |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Ernie |date=2022-01-21 |title=Orion Browser: A Future Best Web Browser for the Mac? |url=https://tedium.co/2022/01/19/orion-web-browser-macos-kagi-profile/ |access-date=2024-03-06 |website=Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet. |language=en}} It is only available on macOS and iOS devices, with Kagi Inc. stating a potential Windows version sometime in the future, and is still in beta.

On March 7, 2025, Kagi Inc. announced that development of Orion Browser for Linux had begun.{{Cite news |title=Kagi HQ (@kagi.com) |url=https://bsky.app/profile/kagi.com/post/3ljqsgjmkpk2n |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250308191706/https://bsky.app/profile/kagi.com/post/3ljqsgjmkpk2n |archive-date=2025-03-08 |access-date=2025-03-15 |work=Bluesky Social}}

On November 7, 2024, Kagi Translate was introduced. Its aim is to provide better translation results than Google Translate or DeepL. Kagi Translate is free and can be used without an account.{{Cite web |date=2024-11-07 |title=Kagi Translate - We speak your language |url=https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-translate |access-date=2024-12-18 |website=Kagi Blog |language=en-US}}

Kagi has no ads or sponsored search results, being based on an account-based, subscription service instead.{{Cite web |last=Pierce |first=David |date=2023-10-01 |title=The best Google alternative I've tried yet |url=https://www.theverge.com/23896415/kagi-search-google-meta-quest-3-chatgpt-macos-sonoma-installer-newsletter |access-date=2024-01-19 |website=The Verge |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Koebler |first=Jason |date=2024-04-03 |title=Friendship Ended With GOOGLE Now KAGI Is My Best Friend |url=https://www.404media.co/friendship-ended-with-google-now-kagi-is-my-best-friend/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=404 Media |language=en}} {{Cite magazine |last1=Ashworth |first1=Boone |last2=Nield |first2=David |last3=Burgess |first3=Matt |date=2023-11-26 |title=How to Make Your Web Searches More Secure and Private |url=https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-make-web-searches-secure-private/ |access-date=2024-01-19 |magazine=Wired |language=en-US |issn=1059-1028}} Kagi allows users 100 free searches before they must subscribe to one of the monthly subscription plan tiers{{Cite web |last=Parab |first=Pranay |date=2023-10-19 |title=Does Kagi Making It Worth Paying to Search the Internet? |url=https://lifehacker.com/kagi-paid-search-engine-review-1850936944 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231019014842/https://lifehacker.com/kagi-paid-search-engine-review-1850936944 |archive-date=2023-10-19 |access-date=2024-01-19 |website=Lifehacker}} below:

1. A $5 tier that allows for 300 searches a month (formerly 500)
2. A $10 tier that allows for unlimited monthly searches
3. A $25 tier{{Cite web |title=Plan Types {{!}} Kagi's Docs |url=https://help.kagi.com/kagi/plans/plan-types.html |access-date=2024-01-19 |website=help.kagi.com}} that allows for unlimited searches and early access to new features.

Kagi had around 43,403 subscribed members as of March 28, 2025 and 845,200 searches were made that day.

The site claims not to collect user actions such as searches.{{Cite web |last=Claburn |first=Thomas |date=2024-01-30 |title=AI is changing search, for better or worse |url=https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/30/ai_is_changing_search/ |access-date=2024-02-18 |website=www.theregister.com |language=en}}

In 2025, the company implemented the privacy pass protocol in their search product,{{Cite web |last=Prelovac |first=Vladimir |title=Introducing Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search {{!}} Kagi Blog |url=https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250219103121/https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass |archive-date=2025-02-19 |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=blog.kagi.com |language=en}} allowing users to authenticate as a paying user while not being identifiable.{{Cite journal |last=Davidson |first=Alex |last2=Goldberg |first2=Ian |last3=Sullivan |first3=Nick |last4=Tankersley |first4=George |last5=Valsorda |first5=Filippo |date=2018 |title=Privacy Pass: Bypassing Internet Challenges Anonymously |url=https://petsymposium.org/popets/2018/popets-2018-0026.php |journal=Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies |doi=10.1515/popets-2018-0026 |issn=2299-0984|doi-access=free }} The same day, the company also announced the availability of their services on Tor.{{Cite web |title=Using Kagi with Tor {{!}} Kagi's Docs |url=https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/tor.html |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=help.kagi.com}}

• Comparison of search engines
• List of search engines

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• David Pierce, [https://www.theverge.com/web/631636/kagi-review-best-search-engine The future of search isn’t Google — and it’s $10 a month], The Verge, March 19, 2025

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