Kagi Search API

Best for: AI agents and automation - an agent-ready surface (MCP / llms.txt); Teams needing broad API coverage out of the box; Cost-sensitive teams - low, transparent entry price

Avoid if: You want to try it free before paying; You have strict compliance requirements

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  40 / 100
  Agent friendliness
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  85 / 100
  Pricing transparency
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  60 / 100
  Setup speed
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  30 / 100
  Docs quality
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  85 / 100
  Procurement ease
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  15 / 100
  Trust readiness

Scores are computed deterministically from this profile's published, sourced fields (pricing, compliance, capabilities, docs and developer-surface signals) - not from reviews or paid placement. Each axis is 0-100; an unknown signal scores 0 for that axis. Procurement ease is the inverse of buying friction (higher = easier to adopt).

Pricing model

Usage-based [2]kagi.com/api/pricing“Pay only for what you use”kagi.com/api/pricing“We will invoice every 30 days or as soon as your usage reaches $100.”

Published pricing

✓ Yes [3]kagi.com/api/pricing“$12 /1k requests”kagi.com/api/pricing“$4 /1k pages”

Free tier

✗ No [4]help.kagi.com/kagi/api/api-portal.html“Add payment method via the API Billing panel; Copy your auto-generated API key and store securely”kagi.com/api/pricing“We will invoice every 30 days or as soon as your usage reaches $100.”

Self-serve signup

✓ Yes

Requires sales call

✗ No

Enterprise plan

✓ Yes [5]kagi.com/api/pricing“Volume discounts, Custom rate limits, Enterprise-grade support and SLAs, Dedicated onboarding”

• AI answer
• Full content for RAG
• News search
• Agent-ready / MCP

Supported actions

web_search, image_search, news_search, video_search, podcast_search, get_contents, enrich_web, enrich_news, summarize, answer_with_citations [6]kagi.com/api/docs“POST /search – a feature-rich endpoint for search products and agents; POST /extract – Extracts markdown content from up to 10 HTTP(s) URLs”help.kagi.com/kagi/api/enrich.html“GET /enrich/web … GET /enrich/news”

Regions

Global - any valid ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 country code supported as region filter; 'no_region' for general results [7]help.kagi.com/kagi/api/search.html“The API accepts 'any valid ISO-3166-1 Alpha-2 country code' or the special value no_region for general results.”

Input types

natural language query, keywords, URL (for extract and summarizer endpoints), text (for summarizer endpoint), lens filters, domain filters, date range filters, region filters, file type filters

Output types

JSON, Markdown, answer + citations (FastGPT), full page contents (extract), structured result objects (url, title, snippet, timestamp, image thumbnail, metadata)

Webhooks

✗ No

Sandbox / test mode

✗ No [8]kagi.com/api/docs“API key from https://kagi.com/api/keys … production API endpoint is https://kagi.com/api/v1”

SDK languages

Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript [9]kagi.com/api/docs“Official client libraries available for: Golang, Python, TypeScript, Rust”

MCP server

✓ Yes [10]kagi.com/api/docs“MCP Server … Hosted at https://mcp.kagi.com/mcp with HTTP Bearer authentication.”github.com/kagisearch/kagimcp“The Official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Kagi Search & other tools.”

SOC 2

None [11]help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/security.html“Kagi has undergone an independent security audit by Illumant ... no findings of material significance”blog.kagi.com/security-audit“no findings of material significance. This indicates that the organization's applications, systems, networks and data are well protected”

HIPAA

✗ No [12]help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/security.html“Kagi has undergone an independent security audit by Illumant”kagi.com/privacy“For information about your data protection rights under GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy laws, see our Privacy Rights Addendum.”

GDPR

✓ Yes [13]kagi.com/privacy“For information about your data protection rights under GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy laws, see our Privacy Rights Addendum.”

ISO 27001

✗ No [14]help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/security.html“Kagi has undergone an independent security audit by Illumant ... no findings of material significance”

PCI DSS

✗ No [15]kagi.com/privacy“Kagi uses external payment processors (Stripe, PayPal, OpenNode) for PCI compliance.”

Published SLA

✗ No [16]kagi.com/api/pricing“Enterprise-grade support and SLAs ... Dedicated onboarding”help.kagi.com/kagi/api/overview.html“The documentation contains no information regarding SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001 certifications or SLA commitments.”

Known restrictions

Extract endpoint is limited to 10 URLs per request, Only Kagi API products are licensed for commercial use; non-API frontend products (e.g. Universal Summarizer UI) are non-commercial only, On Family and Team plans, only the account owner can access the API portal, API keys can be IP-whitelisted, restricting access to configured addresses, Search queries temporarily logged for debugging and automatically purged after a short period, HTTP(S) URLs only for extract endpoint, Enrichment API only billed when non-zero results are returned, FastGPT web_search parameter currently mandatory (disabling it returns an error) [17]kagi.com/api/docs“Each URL is processed and the extracted content is returned in the response … up to 10 HTTP(s) URLs”help.kagi.com/kagi/api/enrich.html“we bill only when non-zero results are returned”help.kagi.com/kagi/api/fastgpt.html“The web_search parameter is currently mandatory; attempting to disable it results in an error”

• API reference
• Changelog
• Status page

Docs rendering: client_rendered

API style

rest

Base URL

https://kagi.com/api/v1

Version

v1

Versioning

url

Stability

beta

Auth methods

api_key

Error format

vendor-specific (meta.trace field + X-Kagi-Trace response header)

SDKs

• Python kagi-api-python · repo
• Go kagi-api-golang · repo
• Rust kagi-api-rust · repo
• TypeScript kagi-api-typescript · repo

• Auth docs
• Quickstart
• MCP server

Launched

2018-01-01

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1. ↑Description: help.kagi.com
2. ↑Pricing model: kagi.com · kagi.com
3. ↑Published pricing: kagi.com · kagi.com
4. ↑Free tier: help.kagi.com · kagi.com
5. ↑Enterprise plan: kagi.com
6. ↑Supported actions: kagi.com · help.kagi.com
7. ↑Regions: help.kagi.com
8. ↑Sandbox: kagi.com
9. ↑SDK languages: kagi.com
10. ↑MCP server: kagi.com · github.com
11. ↑SOC 2: help.kagi.com · blog.kagi.com
12. ↑HIPAA: help.kagi.com · kagi.com
13. ↑GDPR: kagi.com
14. ↑ISO 27001: help.kagi.com
15. ↑PCI DSS: kagi.com
16. ↑Published SLA: kagi.com · help.kagi.com
17. ↑Known restrictions: kagi.com · help.kagi.com · help.kagi.com

Every field change, who made it, and when - from our audited data pipeline and editors.

1. 2026-06-15 Score Agent Friendliness: 30 → 40
2. 2026-06-15 Score Docs Quality: 10 → 30
3. 2026-06-14 Has Structured Data: (none) → No
4. 2026-06-14 API Reference URL: (none) → https://kagi.com/signin?r=/api
5. 2026-06-14 Robots Allows Agents: (none) → Yes
6. 2026-06-14 Capabilities: {} → {"news":true,"ai_answer":true,"agent_ready":true,"content_extraction":true}
7. 2026-06-14 Summary Md: (none) → Kagi Search API provides programmable access to Kagi's premium search index, co…
8. 2026-06-14 Avoid If: (none) → You want to try it free before paying, You have strict compliance requirements
9. 2026-06-14 Scoring Methodology: (none) → Scores are computed deterministically from this profile's published, sourced fi…
10. 2026-06-14 Best For: (none) → AI agents and automation - an agent-ready surface (MCP / llms.txt), Teams needi…
11. 2026-06-14 Score Agent Friendliness: (none) → 30
12. 2026-06-14 Score Pricing Transparency: (none) → 85
13. 2026-06-14 Score Setup Speed: (none) → 60
14. 2026-06-14 Score Docs Quality: (none) → 10
15. 2026-06-14 Score Procurement Friction: (none) → 85
16. 2026-06-14 Score Trust Readiness: (none) → 15
17. 2026-06-14 Llms Txt Present: (none) → No
18. 2026-06-14 Changelog URL: (none) → https://kagi.com/changelog
19. 2026-06-14 Status Page URL: (none) → https://status.kagi.com
20. 2026-06-14 Rendering: (none) → client_rendered
21. 2026-06-14 Supported Actions: set to web_search, image_search, news_search, video_search, podcast_search, get_conten…
22. 2026-06-14 Supported Regions: set to Global - any valid ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 country code supported as region filter; …
23. 2026-06-14 Supported Languages: set to (none)
24. 2026-06-14 Input Types: set to natural language query, keywords, URL (for extract and summarizer endpoints), t…
25. 2026-06-14 Output Types: set to JSON, Markdown, answer + citations (FastGPT), full page contents (extract), str…
26. 2026-06-14 Webhooks Supported: set to No
27. 2026-06-14 Sandbox Available: set to No
28. 2026-06-14 SDK Languages: set to Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript
29. 2026-06-14 Auth Methods: set to api_key
30. 2026-06-14 SDK Packages: set to Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript
31. 2026-06-14 MCP Server Available: set to Yes
32. 2026-06-14 Auth Docs URL: set to https://help.kagi.com/kagi/api/overview.html
33. 2026-06-14 API Style: set to rest
34. 2026-06-14 Base URL: set to https://kagi.com/api/v1
35. 2026-06-14 API Version: set to v1
36. 2026-06-14 Versioning Scheme: set to url
37. 2026-06-14 Stability: set to beta
38. 2026-06-14 MCP URL: set to https://mcp.kagi.com/mcp
39. 2026-06-14 Quickstart URL: set to https://help.kagi.com/kagi/api/api-portal.html
40. 2026-06-14 Error Format: set to vendor-specific (meta.trace field + X-Kagi-Trace response header)
41. 2026-06-14 Requires Verification: set to Yes
42. 2026-06-14 Starting Price Usd: set to 12
43. 2026-06-14 Price Basis: set to 1,000 searches
44. 2026-06-14 Pricing Model: set to usage_based
45. 2026-06-14 Notable Customers: set to (none)
46. 2026-06-14 Fields Not Found: set to documented_rate_limits, sla_published (SLAs mentioned for enterprise tier only,…
47. 2026-06-14 Source Confidence: set to high
48. 2026-06-14 Extractor: set to claude-subagent:sonnet
49. 2026-06-14 Last Verified At: set to 2026-06-14T00:00:00.000Z
50. 2026-06-14 Status: set to published

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