Pick Kagi if
people who will pay a monthly search bill to drop ads and tune site weights.
Read the Kagi pageKagi vs Perplexity
Our take
Pick Kagi if people who will pay a monthly search bill to drop ads and tune site weights. Pick Perplexity if researchers, analysts, and anyone who wants a sourced first pass before opening ten tabs. Skip Perplexity if teams that cannot send queries to Perplexity, or users who need a repo-aware IDE (Cursor) or a local runtime (Ollama).
Best for
Kagi Ad-free web results you can personalize
Perplexity Research with sources you can click
Free plan
Kagi No free plan
Perplexity $0 · standard Search on the public composer
Lowest paid
Kagi Starter $5/mo
Perplexity Pro $17/mo yearly
Next step up
Kagi Professional $10/mo
Perplexity Max from $167/mo yearly
Coding agent
Kagi
Perplexity API platform
Runs where
Kagi
Perplexity Hosted
Watch out
Kagi Trial is 100 searches
Perplexity Citations are not a guarantee
Last checked
Kagi 2026-10-22 · kagi.com/pricing
Perplexity 2026-10-19 · perplexity.ai/pro
Which one, then?
Pick Perplexity if
researchers, analysts, and anyone who wants a sourced first pass before opening ten tabs.
Read the Perplexity page