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✦ Private search, done right

Search the web without ads, trackers, or noise.

From quick answers to deep research, Suede changes the rules of web search to give you the advantage.

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No ads · No trackers · Cancel anytime

Why Suede

A search engine that works for you — not for advertisers.

  • Superior corpus

    We don't compromise. Neither should you. Not on quality, completeness, or provenance.

  • You are not the product

    We're private by design. Our message to advertisers and data brokers is simple: get lost.

  • Zero AI

    Search means search. We'll never prompt an AI model on your behalf, or use your data to train one.

  • Fast & focused

    Clean, relevant results, unobstructed by ads and AI nonsense — no clutter, no noise.

Meet your new superpowers

Stack and combine views, narrow or broaden your scope, teleport across search engines, and reach your destination invisibly.

Bury the noise

Most search engines decide what you see. Suede hands you the dial — raise the signal, bury the noise, and tune every rule to the exact strength you want.

  • Pin Keep your must-read sources above everything — Suede even summons them from deep in the results when they're buried.

  • Raise Lift your higher-priority sources by exactly the degree you choose — a gentle nudge or a decisive boost.

  • Lower Turn the noise down as far as you like — still there, just as far out of the way as you decide.

  • Block Banish content farms and SEO slop for good — by whole domain, URL pattern, or keyword.

Suede makes every search more valuable, productive, and safe

Peace of mind, all the time

Industry-leading threat protection

Real-time threat intelligence is integrated into every Suede search by default, because some risks are too dangerous to ignore. No matter where your research leads, we keep you a step ahead, shielded from attacks like phishing pages, malware hosts, and scam domains. Know where you're going before you click.

Yours, down to the details

Comfort is key, so Suede displays search results to your exact visual specifications. Browse the layouts in our gallery, or design your own in under a minute.

Switching from Kagi or another paid engine?

We've got you covered — your muscle memory transfers!

  • Lenses → Views

    Available for every result type, with no ten-site ceiling. Stack and combine different views in the same query. Try that with a lens.

  • Bring your !bangs

    Create your own, or pull from our collection of over 13,500 built-in sites. Includes support for legacy use cases via bang-compat.

  • Personalized results → Search Control

    Precise per-site control, a clear account of how your rules impact each set of results, and a search depth others can't touch.

  • Captivity isn't a feature

    Drop a uBlacklist export, a hosts file, or any other supported format — it lands as a view you control. Then export it right back out.

Searching from Safari’s address bar

Safari won’t let a third-party engine be the default, so both Suede and Kagi ship an extension that catches your search on its way out. But the devil’s in the details.

Address-bar search on Safari: Suede for Safari compared with Kagi for Safari
Compared Suede for Safari Kagi for Safari
Where your search goes first Straight to Suede. The redirect happens inside Safari, before the request leaves your device. To your default engine, which then hands you on to Kagi.
What your default engine sees Nothing. Your query. Kagi’s own listing says some requests still reach your default engine, and its guide recommends DuckDuckGo or Ecosia as that engine for their privacy policies.

Compared in October 2026 against Kagi’s published source code, help pages and App Store listing.

Kagi is a trademark of Kagi Inc. Suede is not affiliated with or endorsed by Kagi.

Your rules and views export anytime and go anywhere.

  • No AI, ever
  • No retained history
  • Verbatim mode
  • Live service status
  • Human support
  • Cancel anytime
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Frequently Asked Questions

Why is there no free version?

Because "free" search isn't free — you pay with your attention and your data. Ad-funded engines make their money profiling you and selling ads against your results; independent estimates put that take well above $20 a month per user. Suede charges a fair membership instead, so you're the customer, not the inventory: no ads, no trackers, no ranking for sale.

Do you track me? What do you log?

We don't tie your queries to your identity, we don't sell data, and we don't build advertising profiles — your membership is the entire business model. We log only what's needed to run and bill the service, not a per-user history of what you searched.

You have my payment details. How is that private?

Billing and searching are separate concerns. Your card lives with our payment processor and identifies your subscription; your searches aren't attached to it.

Is it actually better than Google?

Different, and for most members better where it counts: no ads or sponsored placements, no SEO slop you've blocked, sources you trust ranked where you put them. Decide for yourself — !g re-runs any search on Google anytime. The test we care about: members who stop feeling the need to double-check us there.

Can I make Suede my browser's default search?

Yes. Desktop browsers pick Suede up automatically (OpenSearch) or add it in two clicks; the Android app registers as your device's search engine; the iOS Safari extension redirects Safari searches to Suede. Your !bangs keep working exactly as you'd expect.

Do you put AI in my results, or train AI on my data?

No AI-written answers are injected into your results, and we don't train AI models on your data. The only machine step is one you invoke: one-tap translation of a foreign-language result.

What if I want to leave?

Cancel anytime from your account — monthly or annual, two clicks, no retention maze. Export your Search Control rules in standard formats (uBlacklist, hosts) and take them with you. Closing your account permanently deletes your data.

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