Kagi Research
Ranked 4 of 6 research agents by recommenders
People recommend it for surfacing forums, small blogs and primary sources quickly; one commenter found it weaker than Claude and similar tools.
People recommend it for surfacing forums, small blogs and primary sources quickly; one commenter found it weaker than Claude and similar tools.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Useful, well-liked research agent
“Kagi's Research and Research (Experimental) models work well with the prompt suggested above”
Comment from 17 Feb 2026 in “Ask HN: LLMs helping you read papers and books” “pretty damn useful, particularly when I can have it poll different models”
Comment from 1 Jan 2026 in “2025: The Year in LLMs” “Kagi research is legit amazing.”
Comment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Kagi Small Web” - Comment from 15 Dec 2025 in “Claude CLI deleted my home directory and wiped my Mac”
Finds forums, small blogs, primary sources
“research surfaces great results. Forums, small blogs and websites with authoritative views on subjects I search for. Really great.”
Comment from 21 Mar 2026 in “Kagi Small Web” “It seems to have been given the instruction to tunnel through to primary sources”
Comment from 26 Jan 2026 in “Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Worse than Claude and alternatives
“I found it worse than alternatives in the similar space (Claude, genspark, kagi research, etc.)”
Comment from 11 Aug 2026 in “Manus will return to operating as an independent company” “worse than alternatives in the similar space (Claude, genspark, kagi research, etc.)”
Comment from 11 Aug 2026 in “Manus will return to operating as an independent company”
Other research agents people recommend
The four most recommended other research agents, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autoresearch by Karpathy | 37 | 15 | 71% | 6 | — | Approved |
| Gemini Deep Research | 27 | 19 | 59% | 9 | — | — |
| OpenAI Deep Research | 13 | 15 | 46% | 8 | — | — |
| Kagi ResearchThis page | 9 | 0 | 100% | 7 | — | — |
| LangAlpha | 8 | 2 | 80% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
11 of the 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I found it worse than alternatives in the similar space (Claude, genspark, kagi research, etc.)”
“worse than alternatives in the similar space (Claude, genspark, kagi research, etc.)”
“Aggressively cites, unlike Claude. Concise, unlike Grok.”
“research surfaces great results. Forums, small blogs and websites with authoritative views on subjects I search for. Really great.”
“Kagi research is legit amazing.”
“Kagi's Research and Research (Experimental) models work well with the prompt suggested above”
“It seems to have been given the instruction to tunnel through to primary sources”
“pretty damn useful, particularly when I can have it poll different models”
“I like Kagi’s Research agent.”
“their Ki research assistant just left beta”
“It generates a lot of good leads very quickly when I want to learn about something.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.