Small Web, the non-commercial part of the internet made by real people, has always been at the heart of what we do at Kagi. Today, we're adding to the Small Web experience with new browser extensions,...
Kagi Translate is now available as an app for Android and iOS! The mobile release brings the same high-quality, customizable, and private translations of Kagi Translate to your smartphone, making it easy to translate voice, text,...
This blog post is a follow-up to Dawn of a new era in Search, published last year. A lot has changed: the legal case has advanced, AI has become the central battleground, and the need for...
After six years of relentless development, Orion for MacOS 1.0 is here. What started as a vision initiated by our founder, Vladimir Prelovac, has now come to fruition on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Today, Orion for...
We’re excited to announce that Kagi Hub Belgrade is now open! Our first office doubles as a free coworking space for all Kagi members. Reservations will be available from December 15th, and you can make your...
TL;DR Today we're releasing two research assistants: Quick Assistant and Research Assistant (previously named Ki during beta). Kagi's Research Assistant happened to top a popular benchmark (SimpleQA) when we ran it in August 2025. This was...
Note: This is a personal essay by Matt Ranger, Kagi's head of ML In 1986, Harry Frankfurt wrote On Bullshit. He differentiates a lying from bullshitting: Lying means you have a concept of what is true,...
Your collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms We made it our mission to prevent the web from becoming useless and a harmful space. That’s why today, Kagi Search introduces the first community-driven system to...
A comprehensive daily press review with global news. Fully private, with sources openly curated by our community. News is broken. We all know it, but we've somehow accepted it as inevitable. The endless notifications. The clickbait...
Our curation of privacy-first projects worth knowing and supporting Nothing excites us more than bringing together people who believe the web should respect its users and put their interests first. At a time where it feels...
"Wait, you PAY for search?" We get this reaction a lot about Kagi. And honestly? We’re not surprised. For 25+ years, we've all been trained to think search should be free. But here's the thing: free...
Just last week, we celebrated three years since Kagi was launched. We shared our vision and roadmap with you and this week, we are already at the next milestone - Kagi reaching 50,000 members! We reached...
Three years ago, Kagi officially launched with a splash on popular technology forum Hacker News (to which we are eternally grateful for helping put Kagi on the map). The top comment in the thread said: I've...
At Kagi, our mission is simple: to humanise the web. We want to deliver a search experience that prioritises human needs, allowing you to explore the web effectively, privately, and without manipulation. We evaluate new technologies...
Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search. Privacy Pass is an authentication protocol first introduced by Davidson et al., in [1], and recently standardized by the IETF as RFCs [2—4]. Our...
To satisfy the growing demand for our services in work environments, we are launching Kagi for Teams - bringing our unmatched quality, privacy-focused search and AI tools to businesses worldwide. While most enterprise tools force you...
Today, we're introducing Kagi Translate. It's not revolutionary - it's simply a better translation service. Our combination of advanced language models and precise output selection delivers translations that surpass existing solutions, including Google Translate and DeepL....
Dear Kagi Community, Remember those t-shirts we promised? Well, hold onto your search bars, because they’re finally ready to ship! TL;DR: Kagi Store. And let’s just say, the journey to get here...
Google search is in the news. Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google search is a monopoly and is behaving in a manner that suppresses search competition with their distribution agreements. The debate on this has started,...
Two years ago, on June 1st, 2022, Kagi introduced a search engine that challenged the ad-supported version of the web. Kagi Search instead works for you, the user, and not an advertiser paying for your attention....
Building a search engine is hard. Delivering accurate and reliable search results requires processing vast amounts of data, understanding complex queries, and constantly evolving to meet user expectations. In an era where AI-generated content is becoming...
Update: We shipped the t-shirts. -- Dear Kagi community, Today, we’re happy and proud to have reached 20,000 paying members, including over 1,500 families all over the world, in our community. We have come a very...
This year has been extraordinary for Kagi. We had tremendous support from our customers, and we want to start this by taking a moment to say thank you. We really appreciate it. Since we launched Kagi,...
As a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Kagi Small Web initiative. What is Kagi Small Web? To begin with, while there is no...
One of the most frequently requested features on Kagi has been the expansion of our payment methods so that more people can more easilly enjoy the benefits of Kagi Search. We are happy to announce that...
Kagi has successfully raised $670K in a SAFE note investment round, marking our first external fundraise to date. This was made possible with the participation of 42 accredited investors, most of whom are actual Kagi users....
We are thrilled to announce significant enhancements to our pricing plans, taking effect immediately. These modifications come as a direct result of cost savings we've recently achieved, which we are more than happy to share with...
Orion beta 0.99.124 has just landed and is bringing over 160 new features, improvements, and bug fixes, making this our most significant release ever. The full release notes will detail all improvements, and we will mention...
We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features. Kagi's goal from day one was to provide the best search results. Today, we are adding significant improvements to continue our steady progress...
We're thrilled to announce the launch of the Kagi Family Plan, a new way for families to enjoy the power of Kagi Search together. The Kagi Family Plan is perfect for families wanting to search smarter,...
Universal Summarizer is an AI-powered tool for instantly summarizing just about any content of any type and any length, by simply providing a URL address (and soon by uploading a file). Universal Summarizer in action One...
Kagi Search is pleased to announce the introduction of three AI features into our product offering. We'd like to discuss how we see AI's role in search, what are the challenges and our AI integration philosophy....
UPDATE: This blog post is old and does not reflect current plans or pricing. You can find current plans and prices here . --- It has been a while since our last update, and we have...
We’d like to give an update about the most important things happening at Kagi in the last three months. As a reminder you can manage your subscription or upgrade to a premium Kagi account [here] (https://kagi.com/settings?p=billing)....
Kagi search and Orion browser officially entered public beta exactly three months ago. We thought we'd give a full status update. If you are new to Kagi - Kagi search is an attempt to make the...
Update: We passed a security audit when we launched to establish our baseline security, which was very important for us. As any security researcher knows, these audits can be invalidated with the very next deployment to...
Web tracking and ads are becoming a personal and societal problem. Browsing and searching the web sensibly has become all but impossible. In response, today we are launching the public beta of two essential tools that...
New: More features in our Dec 22 update and May 23 update. These may be the most surprising Kagi features for new users. No ads No matter how hard you try, you will never see any...
Orion may be a newcomer to the market, but it comes loaded with features. These may be the most surprising parts of Orion for new users. Update: Read an update to this post from May 2023...
_(This is a whitepaper published in the early days of Kagi AI research)_ A neural network in a self-driving car may properly react in most situations based on billions of images it has seen. But if...
_(This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog a few short years ago. Considering the rapid pace of AI advancements since then, it seems like a different era. Despite the passage of time, the core principles...
When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, Stanford University, 1998) they profoundly...