The Kagi implementation can use Kagi search and can use advanced features of search like lenses. This isn't a unique feature but if you believe Kagi search is better than whoever Anthropic/OpenAI are using it's a nice plus.

Kagi's contracts with LLM providers are the ones businesses get with actual privacy protections which is also nice.

Actually, i get the news search with a quick answer and a link to the assistent and not a single LLM but practically all LLMs in one interface and can link and share the chats. The Interface is nice, simple and Kagi is very up to date regarding new LLMs (it already contains Sonnet 4.5, for example).

It's just a nice interface for all LLMs which i often use on mobile or laptop for various work and also private tasks.

The last months have shown that there is no single LLM worth investing in (todays "top" LLM is tomorrows second-in-class).

> subscribing directly to a single LLM

You get multiple LLM in a single interface, with a single login and a single subscription to maintain, all your threads stored at the same place, the ability to switch between models in a thread, custom models...

KI multi-step asisstant. Being able to try out all the llms in one subscription. Search integration with Kagi which means AI can really search only pages I want. And my settings for search as well.