“Kagi is explicitly something like a search engine aggregator.[1]: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...”
“I don't even remember when I have needed to go to a second page of search results in Kagi and spammy clone sites which copy stack exchange verbatim are banned into oblivion where they belong.”
“My ongoing concern with Kagi is they always seem to be focused on sidequests like their Orion browser and their LLM-powered Translate tool. Maybe that's interesting for some people, but I can't help but feel like I just want a damn search engine than works.”
“Kagi is what I settled on a couple of years ago. I do think sometimes the fawning is over the top, but it is a solid search engine and tended to give me a bit better results than Google out of the box. The real win, though, is that you can give various sites a weight, so the search results will prefer or avoid sites according to your desires.”
“Typically, every search query on Kagi will call a dozen or so different sources simultaneously, all with the purpose of bringing the best possible search results to the user in a split second.”
“This and other recent moves make me very close to quitting after over a year. If they suddenly raise the basic kagi search price and/or remove the summaries from there, I'm done.”
“Yeah, I get that this is upsetting to people, but Kagi isn't subsidized by billions of venture capital. Providing AI features is expensive for companies like Kagi; they can't take a loss on something like Translate and just eat the cost.”
“They mention that Kagi Translate would become a subscription service (so I pessmistic'ly assumed it would no longer be part of my existing subscription).The 2026-29-10 announcement includes "As we roll out our unified Fair Use system, usage across Kagi Translate and Kagi Assistant will count toward a shared allowance.".”
“You can just type or photograph something and ask the ai assistant to translate it, I know it's not as convenient and i am not defending Kagi, but it can be a work around”
“Then enshittify your own product through the Amazon Prime approach of taking away existing features for paid subscribers and charging 80% more to get those features back.”
“I really like Kagi Translate as a product and honestly, depending on the freemium limits, it might actually push me onto Ultimate from Professional. I'm probably in the minority in that regard.”
“When I use Kagi I have a curated search experience that has a relatively high information density - driven in large part by the alignment of incentives and the ability for me to tune my results.”
“Every time I went to look up my problem on Kagi, I found no relevant info, only dozens of "AI" tools claiming to do the task for me. Dead Internet Theory feels real now”
“> you get what you pay forI generally agree with your sentiment against trusting free services/things.I agree with paying for Kagi.But I can see why people try to be frugal with their money and use free services.The problem is handing over money guarantees nothing.Money provides the opportunity for the other party to do the right thing by you.”
“I have Kagi because i couldn't turn off AI responses in Google. I very rarely use Kagis AI answer feature, and when i do, i'm rarely happy with the answer.”
“Kagi is a search engine which is like Google was back in the day. They’re funded through subscriptions rather than ads, but if you rely on a search engine then it makes sense to pay for it.”
“I pretty successfully cut out the majority of my Google use a couple years back: Proton for email, Kagi for search, Firefox for browser- but in the last year I switched careers into education and started in an asynchronous masters program. Now both the school district I work at, and the university I’m attending pretty much require you to use Chrome/gmail.”