Kagi Summarize
Kagi Summarize turns web pages, videos, and podcasts with available transcripts into summaries.
What Kagi Summarize is
Kagi Summarize turns web pages, videos, and podcasts with available transcripts into summaries. It accepts URLs for web pages, PDFs, PPTX files, MP3s, and videos, and offers formats from headlines and brief summaries to digests, longer summaries, bullet points, and ELI5. Summaries can also be translated with Kagi Translate. Kagi lists Cecil as a consumer-grade model; Agnes is consumer-grade and Muriel enterprise-grade, with the latter two available through its browser extension or API. Summarize is available in Kagi search results, through the !sum Bang, in Orion on Apple devices, and in Chrome and Firefox extensions. API access supports additional formats, including DOCX, WAV, experimental YouTube URLs, and scanned PDFs or images using OCR. API requests are limited to 1 MB and require a Kagi account and API credits. A free trial includes 100 searches and 100 AI interactions with standard models; paid plans start with Starter at $5 a month plus tax. There is no free plan.
Good
- Accepts web pages, PDFs, PPTX files, MP3s, and videos.
- Offers headline, digest, bullet-point, and ELI5 formats.
- Summaries can be translated using Kagi Translate.
- Browser extensions and API access are available.
Watch out
- There is no free plan.
- API requests are limited to 1 MB.
- API access requires a Kagi account and API credits.
Who it suits
It suits readers who want to summarize web content, documents, audio, or video transcripts in different formats. Kagi describes its Professional plan as suited to prolific internet professionals and developers who are advanced search users.
Verdict
Kagi Summarize combines multiple summary formats with support for a range of linked content and files. Check the plan limits and API requirements against how you expect to use it.
Plans and prices
From Kagi Summarize's own pricing page, checked 29 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Trial | Free | 100 total searches · 100 AI interactions with standard models |
| Summarizer API consumer models (Cecil and Agnes) | $0.03, paid once | Input and output tokens count · requests above 10,000 tokens are billed as 10,000 · cached summaries of the same URL are free · $0.030 USD per 1,000 tokens processed |
| Summarizer API consumer models with Ultimate discount | $0.03, paid once | Ultimate subscribers · input and output tokens count · requests above 10,000 tokens are billed as 10,000 · cached summaries of the same URL are free · $0.025 per 1,000 tokens processed |
| Summarizer API Muriel | $1, paid once | Flat rate regardless of document length or type · $1 USD per summary |
| Starter | $5 a month | 300 searches per month · 300 AI interactions per month with standard models · USD $5 per month + tax |
| Professional | $10 a month | Unlimited searches · unlimited access to Kagi Summarize · Kagi Assistant with standard models · USD $10 per month + tax |
| Ultimate | $25 a month | Everything in Professional · premium models in Kagi Assistant · best-quality mode in Kagi Translate with expanded usage limits · $25/month |
The facts
Each one read from Kagi Summarize's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API formats
- The API supports text web pages, PDFs, PPTX, DOCX, MP3/WAV audio, experimental YouTube URLs, and scanned PDFs or images using OCR.checked 29 Sep 2026
- API limits
- The API request size limit is 1 MB, and API access requires a Kagi account and API credits.checked 29 Sep 2026
- API privacy
- Kagi says API queries are not stored against an account or used to build a profile, though they may be temporarily logged without account linkage for debugging and abuse prevention.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Best suited to
- Kagi describes its Professional plan as suited to internet professionals and developers who are prolific and advanced search users, and it includes unlimited Summarize access.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- Summarize is available in Kagi search results, through the !sum Bang, in Orion on Apple devices, and via Chrome and Firefox extensions.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Models
- Kagi lists Cecil as consumer-grade, while Agnes is consumer-grade and Muriel is enterprise-grade; the latter two are available through the browser extension or API.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- Kagi Summarize summarizes web pages, videos, and podcasts when a transcript is available.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Summary formats
- The available modes include headline, brief summary, digest, medium, long, bullet points, and ELI5.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Summary retention
- Kagi says summaries of public web pages may be cached for no more than a day and customer data is not cached.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Supported content
- The website accepts URLs for web pages, PDFs, PPTX files, MP3s, and videos.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Translation
- Users can optionally have a summary translated using Kagi Translate.checked 29 Sep 2026
The company
- Company
- Kagi says it was founded in 2018 by Vladimir Prelovac in Palo Alto, California.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Founded
- 2018checked 23 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California, United Stateschecked 23 Sep 2026
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