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Kagi
Paid search with no ads and no tracking — for humans.
About
Kagi (kagi.com) is the paid search engine: $5–10/mo, no ads, no tracking, no SEO spam — you are the customer, not the product.
Beloved by power users and developers. Not an agent API (it's for humans), but it belongs in any AI-tools catalog as the search upgrade for the person directing the agents.
What it can do
- Ad-free search
- No tracking
- Lenses (custom search)
- Fast and clean
- For humans, not APIs
Setup
- Sign up at kagi.com.
- Pick a plan ($5–10/mo).
- Set as your default search engine.
Prerequisites
Paid subscription.
Use cases
automation
Works with
Generic APIAny agent (.md)
Trust score — 7/10
/10 trustMetrics-checked
Scored 7/10 (metrics tier). Beloved paid search with a real differentiator (you're the customer), but niche and human-focused, not an agent tool. Proprietary, provider-estimated adoption. Metrics tier.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 7.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 7.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 4.5/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 8.0/10
- · provider-tier estimate — thinner evidence (no public adoption metric)
- · paid ad-free search engine; no public repo — adoption estimated
- · released 285 days ago
- · manual review: Kagi — paid search ($5-10/mo), no ads, no tracking; beloved by power users; license: proprietary
Sources
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