AI assistants
Kagi Assistant privacy rating
AI assistant from Kagi that combines several third-party language models with Kagi Search results, available with a Kagi account.
Summary
Kagi Assistant scores 54 out of 100 (grade D) on the AI assistants criteria. It meets 5 of 12 criteria: no trackers or telemetry, no ads or data sales, security headers, no training on your data and limited chat retention. It partly meets transparency report and TLS configuration. It does not meet open source, independent audit, tells users about requests, runs locally and no account needed. It is based in the United States: Five Eyes member; subject to the US CLOUD Act. Automated tests: SSL Labs grade B and Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade A+.
Score 54 out of 100. How scoring works
Criteria
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No trackers or telemetry Weight 3 of 3
Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
The site loads no analytics or telemetry.
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Yes
No ads or data sales Weight 2 of 3
Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
Funded by paid subscriptions, with no ads.
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No
Independent audit Weight 2 of 3
Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?
No independent audit is published.
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Partial
Transparency report Weight 2 of 3
Does the provider regularly publish how many government and legal requests it receives and how it responds?
The privacy policy includes a warrant canary, but no request counts are published.
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No
Tells users about requests Weight 1 of 3
Does the provider promise to tell users about requests for their data, unless a court forbids it?
No published policy on notifying users about data requests.
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Yes
No training on your data Weight 3 of 3
Are prompts, chats and files kept out of model training by default?
Kagi does not train on chats and uses third-party providers that do not save data or train on it whenever possible.
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No
Runs locally Weight 2 of 3
Can the assistant run on your own device or server, so prompts never leave it?
Hosted only.
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Yes
Limited chat retention Weight 2 of 3
Are chats deleted by default or on request, with no long-term server copy?
Threads are deleted automatically after one day by default, and can be deleted immediately. Reported threads are kept longer.
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No
No account needed Weight 1 of 3
Can it be used without an account or personal details?
A Kagi account is required.
Automated tests
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Partial
TLS configuration Weight 2 of 3
Does the website pass the Qualys SSL Labs test with a grade of A or better?
Grade B
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Yes
Security headers Weight 1 of 3
Does the website pass the Mozilla HTTP Observatory test with a grade of A or better?
Grade A+ (105/100+)
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Not tested yet
Modern web standards Weight 1 of 3
Does the website score 90% or higher on the Internet.nl website test?
Not tested yet.