Pick Kagi if
people who will pay a monthly search bill to drop ads and tune site weights.
Read the Kagi pageKagi vs You.com
Our take
Pick Kagi if people who will pay a monthly search bill to drop ads and tune site weights. Pick You.com if agent builders who need a search endpoint and will read a per-call row. Skip You.com if people looking for the retired YouPro consumer chat seat (not on the fetched pricing page) — use Perplexity or ChatGPT.
You.com
now a Web Search API for agents and LLMs
Best for
Kagi Ad-free web results you can personalize
You.com Grounded web results for a model
Free plan
Kagi No free plan
You.com $0 · no API key; 100 Web Search API queries/day via MCP
Lowest paid
Kagi Starter $5/mo
You.com Contents API $1
Next step up
Kagi Professional $10/mo
You.com Web Search API Standard $5
Coding agent
Kagi
You.com Agentic Research
Watch out
Kagi Trial is 100 searches
You.com This is an API meter, not a $20 chat seat
Last checked
Kagi 2026-10-22 · kagi.com/pricing
You.com 2026-10-20 · you.com/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick You.com if
agent builders who need a search endpoint and will read a per-call row.
Read the You.com page