Kagi

Paid, ad-free search funded entirely by subscriptions.

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Pricing From $5/month for 300 searches; $10/month for unlimited; $25/month Ultimate adds premium AI. Pay with card, PayPal or Bitcoin.

Kagi inverts the usual deal. You pay for it. In return there are no ads, no tracking and no reason to monetize your attention. Results come from a blend of its own indexes and anonymized commercial sources. Extras like Lenses, custom site ranking and a built-in assistant push the quality above the free engines. Plans run from $5 a month for 300 searches to $10 for unlimited, payable by card, PayPal or Bitcoin. It’s US-based and proprietary. It’s also the only paid engine on this list. The upside is better results from a company with no reason to work against you.

Strengths

  • Paid model means no ads and no tracking by design
  • Blends its own indexes with commercial sources for strong results
  • Power tools like Lenses, custom rankings and a built-in assistant
  • Pay with card, PayPal or Bitcoin

Considerations

  • Paid only, while every other option here is free

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Kagi alternatives

Brave SearchPrivate search on its own independent index, not Google or Bing.StartpageGoogle results with the tracking stripped out, from the Netherlands.DuckDuckGoThe mainstream privacy search, with results mainly from Bing.MojeekIndependent search on its own crawler and index, from the UK.