Search the web without the ads, trackers, or noise.
Suede is a members-only search engine for people that value their time and privacy.
No ads · No trackers · Cancel anytime
Customizable · Search profiles · Privacy Redirects · Custom !bangs · API access — all included.
Why Suede
A search engine that works for you — not for advertisers.
Truly private
No query logging and no behavioral profiles. Your searches are yours alone.
Fast & focused
Clean, relevant results the moment you hit enter — no ads, no clutter, no noise.
Zero ads
Because you pay for the product, you'll never be sold as one. No sponsored clutter, ever.
Your results, your rules
Most search engines decide what you see. Suede hands you the dial — raise the signal, bury the noise, and make every search your own.
Pin Keep a favorite on top — Suede even summons it from deep in the results when it's buried.
Raise Lift the sources you trust closer to the top of your results.
Lower Quietly push the sites you trust less further down — still there, just out of your way.
Block Banish content farms and SEO slop for good — by domain, subdomain, or pattern.
One quiet control on every result. Suede learns nothing about you — it simply does what you ask.
One box, countless moves
A snap scopes, a view re-ranks, a bang jumps, and front-ends keep your arrivals private. Watch each move — then stack them in a single query.
Customize these powerful features to ensure the right knowledge is always at your fingertips
Your searches are nobody's business
Not ours, not advertisers', not a data broker's. Suede keeps no history of what you search and builds no profile of who you are — members pay for search, so there is nothing else to sell.
Dangerous sites, flagged before you click
Suede stays on top of emerging threats, meticulously cataloging phishing, malware, and scam sites in real time.
A warning — or no result at all
Known phishing, malware, and scam domains are flagged right where they appear — across web, images, news, video, and shopping. Prefer them gone? One setting removes them from your results entirely.
Threat intel that stays current
Our team stays a step ahead as new phishing and malware campaigns emerge — you're protected without ever building or managing a blocklist.
Checked privately, inside Suede
It all happens inside Suede, in an instant — nothing about what you search or open is ever sent anywhere.
Yours, down to the details
No two people search alike, so nothing here is fixed. How the page feels, how results are built, how search behaves — every layer adjusts to fit the way you work.
How the page feels
Light or dark, your contrast, your text size, less motion if you want it — the page meets you where you're comfortable, in six languages, right-to-left included.
How results are built
Every result is a layout you own: list or grid, roomy or dense — or open the live designer and drag the pieces of a result until it reads exactly the way you want, per kind of search.
How search behaves
Views, snaps and bangs teach the box what you mean; filters and safe search decide what comes back. Every default is yours to change.
Set once, synced to your account — the same everywhere you sign in.
Everywhere you need it
Come one, come all. We've got you covered on every platform and device.
- Coming soonApp Store
- Coming soonGoogle Play
- Coming soonChrome Web Store
- Coming soonFirefox Add-ons
- Coming soonSafari Extensions
When quality matters
Rigorous work demands the right tools. That's why researchers, journalists, and archivists turn to Suede for fast, dependable results.
Your sources stay protected
We never log your queries and never track you. Your work leaves no trail to subpoena, sell, or leak.
Primary sources first
Build a research view, pin the publications you trust, and bury content farms and SEO spam — so the signal rises to the top.
The web, unmanipulated
No ads, no sponsored placements, no engagement algorithm choosing what you see — only the open web, ranked on your terms.
Built to cite
Copy a ready citation in eight styles — or your own template — plus the clean source link, with the Internet Archive a click away on every result.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no free version?
Because "free" search isn't free — you pay with your attention and your data. Ad-funded engines make their money profiling you and selling ads against your results; independent estimates put that take well above $20 a month per user. Suede charges a fair membership instead, so you're the customer, not the inventory: no ads, no trackers, no ranking for sale.
Where do your results come from?
Straight answer: Suede buys raw results from Google's index through a commercial API, then applies everything that makes Suede Suede — your rankings, blocks, and Views; threat-intelligence flagging; honest result counts; your own result design. Your identity never goes upstream: queries leave Suede stripped of who you are. Google's reach, without Google's incentives.
Do you track me? What do you log?
We don't tie your queries to your identity, we don't sell data, and we don't build advertising profiles — your membership is the entire business model. We log only what's needed to run and bill the service, not a per-user history of what you searched.
You have my payment details — how is that private?
Billing and searching are separate concerns. Your card lives with our payment processor and identifies your subscription; your searches aren't attached to it. Paying for search means we never need to know you better to make money — that's the point.
Is it actually better than Google?
Different, and for most members better where it counts: no ads or sponsored placements, no SEO slop you've blocked, sources you trust ranked where you put them. Decide for yourself — !g re-runs any search on Google anytime. The test we care about: members who stop feeling the need to double-check us there.
How is Suede different from other paid search engines?
We respect the category — paid, private search is the right model, and Kagi proved people will pay for it. Suede's own bets: control that goes further (a drag-and-drop result designer, shareable Views with a public directory, block/lower/raise/pin on every result), dangerous-site flagging from live threat intelligence, honest result counts, and an API in every plan. Rules export in standard formats — switching engines should be painless in either direction.
Can I make Suede my browser's default search?
Yes. Desktop browsers pick Suede up automatically (OpenSearch) or add it in two clicks; the Android app registers as your device's search engine; the iOS Safari extension redirects Safari searches to Suede. Your !bangs keep working exactly as you'd expect.
Do you put AI in my results — or train AI on my data?
No AI-written answers are injected into your results, and we don't train AI models on your data. The only machine step is one you invoke: one-tap translation of a foreign-language result.
Can I use Suede programmatically?
Yes. Every membership includes a clean, documented search API — generate a key in settings and call it from anything. API usage runs on a simple prepaid credit balance, so there are no surprise bills.
What if I want to leave?
Cancel anytime from your account — monthly or annual, two clicks, no retention maze. Export your Search Control rules in standard formats (uBlacklist, hosts) and take them with you. Closing your account permanently deletes your data.
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