They listed their sources before and they removed https://web.archive.org/web/20231228222303if_/https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html
But than this month they write a blog https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search and revealed everything again
Vendor Status
Mojeek Direct license
Brave Direct license
Yandex Direct license
Wikipedia Direct license
TripAdvisor Direct license
Yelp Direct license
Apple Direct license
Wolfram Alpha Direct license
Our own Small Web Index Proprietary
With Google and Bing, we failed - not for lack of trying.
Bing: Their terms didn’t work for us from the start. Microsoft’s terms prohibited reordering results or merging them with other sources - restrictions incompatible with Kagi’s approach. In February 2023, they announced price increases of up to 10x on some API tiers. Then in May 2025, they retired the Bing Search APIs entirely, effective August 2025, directing customers toward AI-focused alternatives like Azure AI Agents.
Google: Google does not offer a public search API. The only available path is an ad-syndication bundle with no changes to result presentation - the model Startpage uses.
and “it doesn’t just act as a proxy for other search engines” it exactly does this, Teclis is <1% of the results (you can see yourself https://teclis.com/)






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