While you might know Kagi best as the paid competitor to Google's ever-worsening search product, the company launched its Kagi Translate tool back in 2024, saying at the time that it was a 'simply better' competitor to tools like Google Translate and DeepL. At launch, the company said Kagi Translate 'uses a combination of LLMs, selecting and optimizing the best output for each task,' a fact that 'can occasionally lead to quirks that we're actively working to resolve.'