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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.

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

About Kagi Search

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

  • SOC 2 — “Compliance SOC 2” source
  • GDPR — “Compliance SOC 2 GDPR” source

Latest updates

About You.com