Kagi Search API
Kagi provides a premium, privacy-first search API with no ads and high-quality results. Unlike Google or Bing, Kagi is a paid search engine that prioritizes result quality and user privacy. The API lets agents search the web without the noise of ad-influenced results and without Google's data collection.
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
⚡ Reliability
Best When
You want high-quality search results without ad influence, and privacy matters. Particularly good for research agents that need reliable, unbiased results.
Avoid When
Cost per query is your primary concern, or you need the scale and freshness of Google's search index.
Use Cases
- • Agents that need high-quality web search results without ad bias
- • Research agents where result quality matters more than cost per query
- • Privacy-sensitive agent applications where Google/Bing data collection is a concern
- • Universal Summarizer: AI-powered summaries of any URL for agent context
- • FastGPT endpoint: quick answers for agent sub-queries
Not For
- • High-volume search (cost per query is higher than Google/Bing APIs)
- • Applications needing real-time news (freshness varies by plan)
- • Teams optimizing for raw search volume over quality
Interface
Authentication
API key authentication via Authorization header. Simple, clean auth model. API access requires Kagi subscription.
Pricing
Requires active Kagi subscription ($10-25/month) plus API credits. Not free. Higher quality has higher cost.
Agent Metadata
Known Gotchas
- ⚠ Requires paid Kagi subscription — not available without account payment
- ⚠ Rate limit of 1 req/sec is very restrictive for multi-agent parallelism
- ⚠ Freshness not guaranteed on Standard plan — some results may be hours old
- ⚠ No JavaScript rendering — cannot scrape dynamic sites
- ⚠ Credit balance required — agents must handle credit exhaustion gracefully
- ⚠ Summarizer requires URL access — paywalled/login-required content fails
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-10.