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Kagi Search vs You.com
Kagi Search or You.com? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
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In short
- Both: Cites sources, Summaries, API
Kagi Search
Kagi Search is a subscription web search engine with no ads or tracking, customizable results, AI tools, and search APIs.
Plans
Trial
Free
- 100 searches
- Explore Kagi Search and Assistant with privacy-first tech
- Enough to feel the difference
- Upgrade anytime
Starter
- $5 /mo (+ Sales Tax)
- 300 searches
- Kagi Assistant with Quick mode and plenty of interactions
Professional
- $10 /mo (+ Sales Tax)
- Unlimited searches
- Kagi Assistant with Quick mode and a larger monthly usage allowance
Ultimate
- $25 /mo (+ Sales Tax)
- Unlimited searches & Premium AI
- Kagi Assistant with Research mode and flagship models
- Highest level support for Kagi's mission
Prices checked 2026-09-26 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Cites sources — “Quick Answer uses AI to extract and summarize the important content from the search results including links to the source material.” source
- Summaries — “Summarize Page provides a synopsis of the page.” source
- API — “Search API preview opens to all users” source
Latest updates
- One login for all of Kagi, and Translate reopens to everyone
Kagi now has a single account for all products; Translate is freemium, and its browser extension adds read aloud and auto-proofread.
- A new Stocks widget and a better everyday Assistant experience
Stocks widget adds ETFs and a price chart; Search can remove paywalled links; Assistant adds thread search, sorting, and retention options.
- Kagi Assistant on the go and design refinements for Search
Assistant apps are available for iOS and Android; users can report responses and export or delete threads; Search adds currency conversion.
You.com
You.com provides APIs for real-time web search, page extraction, cited answers, research, and financial research.
Plans
Free
Free
- 100 queries per day
- Use the Web Search API for free
- No API key required
Web Search API
- $5.00 /1k calls
- 1–100 results per call
- News endpoint included at no extra cost
- Up to 100 URLs per call included
- LLM-ready snippets with rich metadata per result
- Country & language targeting filters
Contents API
- $1.00 /1k pages
- Batch multiple URLs per request
- Returns clean Markdown or raw HTML per page
- Reliable page extraction at scale
- Accessible via Search API livecrawl parameter
- Python SDK, MCP Server, and REST API access
Answer API
- $5.00 /1k calls
- Our same reliable, webscale knowledge as Web Search plus a synthesized, citation-grounded answer
- Answer generated only from retrieved passages
- Synthesized response with citations
- The same operators as Web Search to guide your output
- 93.48% accuracy on SimpleQA
Research API
- $12.00 /1k calls
- Fast retrieval for simple factual lookups
- Cited, source-backed answers with inline references
- Multi-step search and synthesis pipeline
- AAAI Best Paper Award methodology
Finance Research API
- $110.00 /1k calls
- Multi-source research and synthesis
- Covers filings, macro data, markets, and derived calculations
- Goes beyond web search with structured, multi-source research
- Precision-focused: avoids fiscal year, unit, and period errors
- Cited answers with traceable [[n]] source references
Prices checked 2026-09-26 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Cites sources — “Synthesized response with citations” source
- Summaries — “Extract page text, summaries, and metadata from multiple URLs.” source
- API — “The Leading Web Search APIs for AI” source
Security
Latest updates
- Knowledge: Live Stock Prices, Sports, Crypto, And More. Now In Web Search. Same $5 CPM.
Live stock prices, sports, crypto, and more are now in Web Search at the same $5 CPM.
- The n8n You.com Node Now Has 7 Operations, Including Background Research
The n8n You.com Node now has 7 operations, including Background Research.
- Web Search with Highlights: 95.17% on SimpleQA, 35% Cheaper Than Claude's Built-In Search.
Web Search with Highlights: 95.17% on SimpleQA and 35% cheaper than Claude's built-in search.