Kagi Assistant vs Venice AI Comparison

• Starter (monthly): USD 5.00/month, 300 searches/month, Kagi Assistant in Quick mode
• Starter (annual): USD 4.50/month billed as $54/year (10% annual discount)
• Professional (monthly): USD 10.00/month, unlimited search, Assistant Quick mode with a larger monthly allowance
• Professional (annual): USD 9.00/month billed as $108/year (10% annual discount)
• Ultimate (monthly): USD 25.00/month, unlimited search, Assistant Research mode plus flagship models
• Ultimate (annual): USD 22.50/month billed as $270/year (10% annual discount)

• Pro (monthly): $18/mo, ~16.7% cheaper billed yearly
• Pro Plus (monthly): $68/mo, ~16.7% cheaper billed yearly
• Max (monthly): $200/mo, ~16.7% cheaper billed yearly

No standing free tier for Assistant. The Trial plan offers 100 searches and 100 Assistant interactions before requiring a paid plan, and still requires creating an account.

Base AI models only, 10 text prompts/day, 15 image prompts/day, API access pay-as-you-go with credits. No web search, no document uploads, no vision, no text-to-speech, no character creation, no video generation, and no TEE/E2EE access on this tier.

Conversation threads are automatically deleted after one day by default; a thread can also be deleted immediately by hand. A thread a user reports (for example, to flag a bug) is retained for 30 days before deletion for debugging purposes. Requests to the model backend are not saved or tied to a customer account by default, though Kagi notes they may be retained briefly as part of request debugging. On the model-provider side, retention varies by provider and is documented separately — see the Privacy Architecture section.

Anonymous-tier requests go to outside frontier-model providers, and Venice's own guidance is to assume that provider stores the content under its own policy. Private-tier and TEE/E2EE-tier requests are not stored — enforced by contract on Private, and by hardware enclave plus client-side encryption on TEE/E2EE. One disclosed exception: prompts may sit in server memory in plaintext for the duration of a single request (never written to disk) on the Anonymous and Private tiers, and generated videos are held on Venice's servers temporarily until downloaded, then deleted shortly after — the one standing exception to the no-storage policy, due to file size.

Kagi Inc. is a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Venice.ai's Terms of Service are governed by Wyoming law, with the company operating from offices in Wyoming and a registered notice address in Sheridan, Wyoming. The Privacy Policy states the Service is hosted in the United States and is intended for visitors located within the United States.