# Komo review (2026): is the free plan enough? > AI search engine with credit-metered access to premium models Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Komo is a web-based AI search engine. Free accounts get a daily allowance of credits for searches with its fast and budget models, and paid plans add a monthly credit grant, premium models, deep research and people search. Searching requires signing in. - **Category:** AI Assistants - **Made by:** Komo AI - **Website:** https://komo.ai - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a phone or desktop app: it's browser only. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Komo has a free plan, and paid plans start at $17 per month, billed annually. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 25 credits every day, Komo Fast and budget models, all focus modes and search history. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | 25 credits every day, Komo Fast and budget models, all focus modes and search history. No card required. | | Komo Pro | $17 per month, billed annually | 2,000 monthly credits, premium models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok), deep research, people search and non-expiring top-ups. | | Komo Max | $170 per month, billed annually | Everything in Pro with 25,000 monthly credits, the highest parallel-run limits and priority access to new features. | Read from https://komo.ai/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Komo before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save 15% with annual billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page marks its Annual toggle with a 15% saving against monthly billing. Source: https://komo.ai/pricing ## Key features - **Credit-metered usage:** Every search draws from one credit balance: a daily grant on Free and a monthly grant on paid plans. - **Focus modes:** All focus modes are available on the free plan. - **Premium models:** Pro and Max add the premium models the pricing page names: GPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok. - **Deep research:** Longer research runs are included from Pro upward. - **People search:** A search mode for finding people, listed on Pro and Max. - **Credit top-ups:** Paid plans can buy non-expiring credits on top of the monthly grant: 500 credits for $5 or 2,500 for $20. ## Good for - People who want an AI search engine they can try daily without paying - Heavy searchers who prefer topping up credits to a fixed per-model subscription ## Worth knowing - Searching needs a signed-in account, even on the free plan. - Only the annual-billing price is shown on the pricing page text we could read; the monthly-billing price is not recorded here, and the page labels annual billing as a 15% saving. - Premium models, deep research and people search are not on the free plan. - Komo lists no mobile or desktop apps; it is used in a browser. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Komo is an AI search engine where every search spends credits. Free gives 25 credits a day, and premium models, deep research and people search need Pro at $17 a month billed yearly. It's browser only and needs an account even to search. - **Value for money: C.** Pro is $17 a month billed yearly, at the dear edge of the category, and Max is $170. Top-ups are $5 for 500 credits. - **Free plan and trial: B.** Free: 25 credits every day, no card, all focus modes and search history. One person can get through a day on that. - **Features: C.** Search with focus modes, credit-metered premium models, deep research and people search. Search is the job; there's no writing or file work. - **Ease of use: B.** No rating on record, but it's a search box in the browser: sign in and type. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with no apps or integrations listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Komo's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI assistants - Komo's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 20 of the 71 other AI assistants we grade, and level with 11. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 42 of 71) and worst on features (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $17 a month, against a middle price of $11 for the category: 34 of the 43 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 27 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-assistants ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Komo you would be making a search engine with an AI model behind it. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 40 of the 71 other AI assistants grade higher. It costs $204 a year. - You could not: A search engine with an AI model behind it. - You could not: An AI model, which you can rent by the request but not make. - You could not: A library of papers and sources to search. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** AI search, Chat assistant, Research, AI features ## Alternatives - [Perplexity](https://toolgpa.com/tools/perplexity): AI search assistant that answers questions with cited sources. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/komo-vs-perplexity) - [Felo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/felo): Multilingual AI search engine that also builds slides and docs. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/felo-vs-komo) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://komo.ai/ - https://komo.ai/pricing Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/komo Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).