r/SearchKagi

Long-time Brave user looking into Orion. How is your experience?

Hi everyone,

I’m an active Kagi user (Search, Assistant, and Translate) and have been relying on Brave as my daily browser for quite a while.

Being fully inside the Apple ecosystem, Orion has caught my eye recently because of its native WebKit foundation, promise of Safari-level battery efficiency, and support for Chrome/Firefox extensions.

For those of you who use Orion daily on macOS and iOS/iPadOS:

  • How has your real-world experience been compared to Chromium-based browsers like Brave?
  • How stable are extensions (uBlock, Bitwarden, etc.) in your everyday workflow?
  • Are there any major friction points or bugs you still run into regularly?

Also, could someone clarify the practical differences between the free Orion tier and the paid Orion+ plan? Beyond supporting the development and getting early access to candidate builds/Discord perks, are there distinct feature gates between the two?

Would love to hear your thoughts and whether it's worth making the jump. Thanks!

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u/EriksonThorsen — 9 days ago

Subscription with API usage

I have a Pro subscription. Do I have to pay for API usage on top of the sub? Or can I get API usage without the subscription?

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u/cchase — 10 days ago

Is the Kagi LLM Benchmarking Project dead?

I always liked the Kagi LLM Benchmarking Project, it reflected my personal experience with the different models quite well. It hasn't been updated in a while though, and even before the last update, many new models were already missing. Is it dead? Or is a bigger task list revision in the works?

u/rmi_ — 11 days ago

Chase Bank and Kagi

I recently switched to the paid version of Kagi. It's been great I switched my PC and phone default and I also switched from Chrome to Firefox.

it's been great and I absolutely love the service

however, there is one major issue that is driving me insane. Every time I go to pay my bill Chase bank forces me to call them and the only reliable way I have found to get through their code verification even with them on the phone is to switch my password.

I thought at first it was a Firefox issue but I have the same problem with chrome.

However, I don't really see how kagi would change much considering I am going directly to Chase Bank instead of searching for it.

has anyone else had this issue and have any advice? Is my best option to get their app on my phone? I am so sick of having to call their agents but aside from getting me the code they have been for the most part unhelpful.

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u/Significant_Fill6992 — 11 days ago

Does Kagi censor Pro-Palestinian, anti-American and anti-Israel government news articles like Google? Also including general censorship e.g. in my own country Australia.

Using Google it is very hard to find articles including evidence of the global horrors both the American and Israeli government do. I know they exist because i sometimes see them on reddit, but i find them impossible to find myself.

I like to try and fully understand issues by reading both sides, but todays news feels too 1 sided for me. For instance 2/3 of Australian news is owned by Rupert Murdoch who pays close to 0 tax.

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u/Nicolo003 — 12 days ago