Kagi

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “Kagi was sufficiently confused as to what "Data blades" are that it actually thought I was looking for replacement woodworking blades”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-07-10

• “I've been using Kagi's API and found its cheap enough not to matter to me at all”

  POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-07-07

• “I still prefer Kagi News over any mainstream media at this point”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-05

• “I'm a paying customer. Maybe you can't provide unlimited translate access, but I expect some amount of translation access as part of my Kagi subscription.”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-03

• “Kagi are doing everything right. Nearly everything I could think of is in there”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-02

• “The Kagi Assistant used to not do this, and now it does it on nearly every response.”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-29

• “happy Kagi user. Paying for search aligns the incentives cleanly”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-27

• “Kagi easily saves me that in a year through it's ability to block sites, no ads, ans no having to worry about my searches being saved forever and sold to insurance and future employers.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-14

• “the assistant kagi offers for web-chat and research for months. For the smallish projects I work on at home those have been great.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-14

• “Being able to turn AI summaries and such off by default was the final reason I started paying for Kagi.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-13

• “With kagi that all disappears. And you get search results that are ranked based on how well they match your search query.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-12

• “in kagi it's tucked away behind a button, you can very easily burn through your allowance, and the models they have are.. subpar to say the least. and as a long-time (2+ years) kagi user i find myself using google more and more just for the ai overview/ai mode, bc its just genuinely faster”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-12

• “After using it for a week I can't imagine going back. Too many times I used to google my vet by name and the response would be some random other vet in next town over. I'd end up calling them and immediately hang up realizing google fed me bullshit again. Kagi just focusing on a doing a good job. It's their singular focus and its worth ever cent.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-12

• “I use Kagi because it doesn't have that (or it does, but allowed me to hide it”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-04

• “Yandex was feeding in a lot of low quality results into Kagi - lots of pirated software, shady websites, proxy duplicate copycat sites, content that I'll euphemistically call "free speech"”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-04

• “Kagi's excellent, their search results for me are significantly better than Google (and customizable), they've leveraged AI in a way thats optional and, to me, class-leading in its ability to help with search”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-04

• “kagi is better than google for the things I and my AI agents are searching for”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-04

• “I personally don't mind having to do this and I knew when signing up for something like Kagi that it wasn't going to be able to use information it has tracked about me to give me these kinds of "better" search results”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-01

• “Kagi is still by far the best results for me, particularly for engineering content and worth every dollar”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-01

• “I just have Kagi set a custom search engine in mobile browser - no seperate app needed.”

  MIXED · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-28

• “I discover so many more alternative resources when searching with Kagi”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-28

• “Kagi phone app is pretty nice. I do all my searching in Kagi, the clicked results launch my default browser and the search results stay stable where they are.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-28

• “I love the way Kagi does AI - it defaults to a regular search, but if you add a question mark to the end, it will give you an AI answer. Additionally there is a small "quick answer" button at the top of all results that will give an AI answer if clicked.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-28

• “an engine like Kagi(because Google just sells you the same product repackaged over and over)”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-27

• “switched to Kagi and has been a very happy customer. I never visited Google after that.”

  MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-27