Mojeek review

Mojeek is one of the few engines here with its own crawler and index built from scratch, which passed 9 billion pages in 2025. The UK company says it has provided independent search without tracking for over 15 years, and its results are not borrowed from Bing or Google. Recent additions include Search Summary and Semantic Search in 2024, a beta SafeSearch and cookieless preferences, so settings can be saved without cookies. Focus lets you build a search across a chosen set of sites. Mojeek runs on renewable energy at what it calls the UK's greenest data centre. Searching is free. Developers can buy its Search API on pay-as-you-go pricing starting at £2 per 1,000 requests, with no minimum commitment. The trade-off for independence is coverage: a 9-billion-page index is smaller than the major engines, so very niche searches may return fewer results.

Who it is for

people who want truly independent results from a small UK engine

Price

Free to search; Search API is pay as you go in GBP.

Proudly providing independent search without tracking for over 15 years
Quoted from the vendor pricing page on November 14, 2026.

Key features

• Own index, which passed 9 billion pages in 2025
• No tracking for over 15 years
• Focus lets you search a chosen set of sites
• Search Summary (2024) and Semantic Search
• Hosted at what Mojeek calls the UK's greenest data centre

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Results do not come from Bing or Google
• Strength: Cookieless preferences
• Strength: Pay-as-you-go Search API for developers
• Weakness: Smaller index than the big engines, so niche queries can return fewer results
• Weakness: Fewer extras than Brave Search or DuckDuckGo
• Weakness: Search API is priced in GBP

Key facts

• Price: Free
• Index size: 9 billion+ pages
• Based in: United Kingdom
• API: From £2 per 1,000 requests

Where it ranks

Mojeek is No. 7 in our Best Private Search Engines verdict.