Alternatives to Kagi
A paid, ad-free web search engine with anti-tracking, result customization and an AI assistant. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Kagi
A paid, ad-free web search engine with anti-tracking, result customization and an AI assistant.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Kagi.
DuckDuckGo Search
A web search engine that does not track or profile its users.
DuckDuckGo Search is free and needs no account, but shows ads alongside results and lacks Kagi's per-site blocking, Lenses and multi-model AI assistant.
Brave Search
A private web search engine built on its own independent index, with optional AI answers.
Brave Search is free and uses its own independent index with Goggles for custom ranking and optional AI answers, instead of a paid, ad-free subscription with an account.
Startpage
A web search engine that does not keep search histories and lets you view results anonymously.
Startpage is free with nothing to install and offers anonymous viewing of result pages, but has no paid tier, result customization or AI assistant like Kagi.
Qwant
A French web search engine hosted in Europe that says it does not keep search data.
Qwant is free and hosted in Europe under EU rules, with iOS and Android apps, but lacks Kagi's result customization and results vary outside European content.
Mojeek
An independent UK search engine with its own crawler and index that does not track users.
Mojeek is free and uses its own independent UK crawler and index, but has a smaller index and no customization tools or AI assistant.
SearXNG
Self-hosted metasearch engine that aggregates results without profiling you.
SearXNG is open source and self-hostable, aggregating dozens of engines at no cost, though running your own instance means ongoing maintenance.
MetaGer
A privacy-focused metasearch engine and anonymous browsing service paid for with a prepaid key.
MetaGer is also paid but open source and run by a non-profit, using a prepaid key without an account, with results drawn from underlying engines.
Swisscows
A Swiss private search engine with no tracking and results filtered to be family-friendly.
Swisscows is free and operated from Switzerland with no tracking, but filters violent and adult content and offers no result customization.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Kagi as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Felo
A multilingual AI search tool that answers questions and creates slides, mind maps and documents.
Kagi is a paid, ad-free search engine with an AI assistant grounded in search results and customizable ranking, but it needs a subscription and does not generate slides.
Perplexity
An AI answer engine that searches the web and replies with cited sources.
Kagi is a paid, ad-free search engine with an AI assistant grounded in search results, per-site ranking controls and apps for Android and iOS.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Have I Been Pwned
A service that checks whether your email address or password appeared in known data breaches.
Mozilla VPN
A paid WireGuard-based VPN service from Mozilla that runs on Mullvad's server network.
4get
A proxying metasearch engine you can use through public instances or host yourself.
