Kuldeep Paul

Paid search + AI assistant · Kagi

Kagi Assistant

Kagi Search: its own Teclis and TinyGem indexes plus licensed results from other engines.

Compiled by · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Operator
Kagi
Launched
Jun 1, 2022
Search index
Kagi Search: its own Teclis and TinyGem indexes plus licensed results from other engines.Sources: en.wikipedia.org, blog.kagi.com
Crawlers
Kagibotkagi-fetcher — blocked by 4.5% of top sites
Referrer in analytics
kagi.com
UTM tagging
None added
Ads
No. Kagi is subscription-funded.Source: en.wikipedia.org
Citations
Inline citations.
Official docs
kagi.com

Usage, as stated

As ofMetricValueStated bySource
Sep 2026Paying members75,353Kagi live statsstack.liuhuo.org

Questions

What search engine does Kagi Assistant use?

Kagi Search: its own Teclis and TinyGem indexes plus licensed results from other engines.

Which crawlers does Kagi Assistant use?

Kagi Assistant relies on Kagibot, kagi-fetcher.

How do I track Kagi Assistant traffic in analytics?

Clicks from Kagi Assistant arrive with the referrer kagi.com. Add it to an AI channel in GA4 using a source regex.

Does Kagi Assistant show ads?

No. Kagi is subscription-funded.

Analysis using this data

  1. The opt-out asymmetry: you can block the small AI engines, not the big oneThe AI surfaces with the most users are the ones publishers can't refuse and can't measure.

Other AI engines

ChatGPT · ChatGPT Atlas · Google AI Overviews · Google AI Mode · Gemini · Perplexity · Comet · Claude · Microsoft Copilot · Meta AI · Grok · DeepSeek · Le Chat · You.com · Brave Search (Ask Brave) · DuckDuckGo (Duck.ai & Search Assist) · Amazon Rufus (retired)

How to cite this data

This dataset is free to use, including commercially, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The one rule is attribution:

  1. Credit the source as “Kuldeep Paul, kuldeep.cc” wherever you use a figure, chart or table from it.
  2. Link to this page (https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/kagi), not to the download file, so readers can check the source of every number.
  3. Include the date. These figures change; say “as of Oct 29, 2026” or link to the version you used.
  4. Mark changes. If you filter, recalculate or chart the data yourself, say so (“analysis based on data from…”).
  5. Cite the original source for single figures when you quote one reported number; it is linked in every row.

In running text: according to Kuldeep Paul's Kagi Assistant — AI search engine reference (kuldeep.cc). More in the methodology.

APA

Paul, K. (2026). Kagi Assistant — AI search engine reference [Data set]. kuldeep.cc. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/kagi

MLA

Paul, Kuldeep. "Kagi Assistant — AI search engine reference." kuldeep.cc, 29 October 2026, https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/kagi.

Chicago

Paul, Kuldeep. 2026. "Kagi Assistant — AI search engine reference." Dataset. kuldeep.cc. Updated Oct 29, 2026. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/kagi.

BibTeX

@misc{paul2026kagi, author = {Paul, Kuldeep}, title = {Kagi Assistant — AI search engine reference}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {\url{https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/kagi}}, note = {Dataset, CC BY 4.0, updated 2026-10-29} }

HTML link

<a href="https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/kagi">Kagi Assistant — AI search engine reference</a> (data: Kuldeep Paul, kuldeep.cc)