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If your volume is low enough, it should be pretty fine. It can just piggy back onto your personal browser cookies for Cloudflare.
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Even the hosted ones are blocked from searching certain sites, for example Claude is banned from searching Reddit:

`Error: "The following domains are not accessible to our user agent: ['reddit.com']."`

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Tavily, Exa, Firecrawl, Perplexity, and Linkup are all tools for agents to search the web.

I’ve been building a harness the past few months and supports them all out of the box with an API key.

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Kagi also has an API. People who hate ads are probably the same folk that should be paying for Kagi. That's the sane alternative world where companies respect their users.
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Oh, you got me so excited. I've had a Kagi sub for 3 years, but their API is still in closed beta. I guess I could (and should reach out and ask for access).
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