> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.theaidirectory.com.au/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Komo Review Australia 2026: A Search Engine Again. Can You Trust It? - URL: https://www.theaidirectory.com.au/review-komo-australia-2026/ - Published: 2026-09-06T23:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-09T06:32:04.000Z - Description: Komo has been a search engine, a sales bot and a waitlist page in six months. It is a search engine again, and cheap. It also has no privacy policy. Here is what an Australian gets. - Author: Adam - Tags: AI Assistants & Chatbots, AI Reviews, Komo, Research Tools, #review **9**/25 ★★☆☆☆ Below Average Komo AI Corp (New York, United States) Verified 9 Oct 2026 Reviewed 7 Sep 2026 Value for Money**2**/5 Ease of Use**3**/5 Feature Depth**2**/5 Australian Fit**1**/5 Reliability & Support**1**/5 From **A$24**/mo · ex-GST · billed in USD (US$17) **The gate:** Five stars need 21+ and Australian Fit of at least 4/5. [Skip to the verdict ](#verdict) > **Verdict (TL;DR):** Komo is a competent-looking AI search engine. The company behind it has had komo.ai pointed at three different businesses this year and currently publishes no privacy policy or terms at all. The free tier costs nothing and Pro matches Perplexity on price. But there is no AUD pricing, no support channel, and no way to know what a credit buys. Use the free tier if you are curious. Do not pay, and do not put anything sensitive into it until the legal pages come back. > > *Scored on Komo's public pages only. We did not create an account, so we did not run a search.* > > **Score: 9/25 — ⭐⭐ Below Average** > > *Last reviewed: 7 September 2026 by Adam.* ## What Komo is Komo is an AI search engine. You type a question, it searches the web and writes an answer with numbered citations, in the style Perplexity made familiar. The last terms the company published name Komo AI Corp of New York. It has a free tier, a Pro plan and a Max plan, all priced in US dollars and metered in "credits". That is what komo.ai is today. It is not what it was in June. Our first attempt at this review, written on 26 June 2026, found a sales-automation platform at the same address. "The AI Revenue Engine" was sold on demos and a seven-day trial, with a New York legal entity and a privacy policy dated 19 March 2026\. We spiked that draft on 7 September because the product it described no longer sits at komo.ai. The Wayback Machine tells the full story. In March 2025 komo.ai was an AI search engine with a "Get Premium" button. By 30 May 2026 it was the sales platform. On 16 August 2026 it was a one-page waitlist for "The Self-Driving Business". By 7 September it was a search engine again, with a Discover feed seeded with answers dated 11 and 12 August. The sales product's documentation is still online at docs.komo.ai and still tells people to sign up at komo.ai. We do not know which product a new sign-up gets. For an Australian reader that history is not colour. It is the main risk. A search engine that stores your search history is only as trustworthy as the company's commitment to running it. ## What it costs in Australia Prices are USD only. There is no AUD option, no GST statement and no tax line anywhere on the site. AUD figures below are converted at 1 USD = 1.39 AUD (European Central Bank reference rate via Frankfurter, 4 September 2026), shown ex-GST. A GST-registered Australian business that supplies its ABN is not charged GST on an imported digital service; other buyers should allow about 10% on top. | Plan | USD | AUD est. (ex-GST) | What you get | | -------------------- | ------------------------------------- | ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Free | $0 | $0 | 25 credits every day, "Komo Fast + budget models", all focus modes, search history | | Komo Pro | US$17/month billed annually | \~A$24/month | 2,000 monthly credits, "every premium model — GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, Grok" (Komo's wording), deep research, people search, non-expiring top-ups | | Komo Max | US$170/month billed annually | \~A$236/month | 25,000 monthly credits, "highest parallel-run limits", priority access to new features | | Top-ups (paid plans) | 500 credits US$5; 2,500 credits US$20 | \~A$7; \~A$28 | Non-expiring, stacked on the monthly grant | The page shows annual pricing by default and says annual billing saves 15%. That puts month-to-month Pro at about US$20 (\~A$28) and Max at about US$200 (\~A$278). Those two figures are arithmetic from the vendor's own 15% claim, because the monthly toggle only renders in a browser session. Whatever you pay is billed in US dollars, so your card issuer's foreign-exchange margin lands on top of the AUD figures here. The number the page never gives is what a search costs. Everything is "metered in one credit currency", but nothing on the site says whether a basic search is one credit or ten, or what deep research draws. Twenty-five free credits a day might be twenty-five searches or two. Until Komo publishes a credit table, the free tier cannot be sized and the paid tiers cannot be compared honestly. For scale: Perplexity Pro is US$20 a month, or US$200 a year, and we know exactly what it includes. ## How it works in practice Two things shaped how we tested. Komo requires an account before it will run a single search. Its sign-in page offers Google, Microsoft or an email address. We do not create vendor accounts for reviews on the reader's behalf. So this review is built on what Komo shows without an account. That means the pricing page, the sign-in and Earn pages, the Firsthand page, the public Discover feed and the shared answers behind it. Treat the interface notes as observations of the product's public face, not a signed-in workout. What that public face shows is a clean, Perplexity-shaped product. The left rail has New search, History, Firsthand and Earn. A shared answer opens with a source strip of numbered cards with site favicons. The answer follows with inline citation numbers, then a "Continue this search on Komo" prompt. The seeded battery answer is good. "How close are solid-state batteries to commercialization?" cites Toyota's newsroom, Nature Energy, IEEE Spectrum, Reuters, QuantumScape's own blog and Electrek. Each claim carries the right number. That is a research answer you could act on. The user-shared answers are less convincing. A Spanish-language question about how cells transport substances returned a textbook-correct answer with eight citations, all Semantic Scholar PDFs. Most were unrelated: a paper on freezing bacteria, another on green nanotechnology, a third on kidney autoregulation. The prose was fine. The sources were decoration. A right answer wearing the wrong references is the pattern to watch for in any AI search engine. Komo shows it on its own front page. Firsthand is the differentiator Komo is betting on: "paid answers from people who were actually there — invitations, answers, payouts." You find a person in People search and request a paid answer from their profile. Earn is the other side of that marketplace. Both pages were empty shells without an account. The pricing page lists People search as a Pro feature, while the page's own code still carries a "People search (coming soon)" label. We could not see a single Firsthand answer. ## What it does well - **The price matches the leader.** US$17 a month for Pro, billed annually, sits within 33 US cents of Perplexity's annual rate (US$200 a year, or US$16.67 a month). The 2,500-credit top-up for US$20 is a cheaper way to handle a busy month than upgrading a tier. - **Citations are real and inspectable.** Every shared answer we opened linked to live source URLs, with a one-line summary of what each source says. When the sourcing is good, as on the battery answer, it is very good. - **The free tier renews daily.** A daily grant of 25 credits with no card is friendlier than a one-off trial. Whatever a credit buys, you get more tomorrow. - **Premium-model choice on one plan.** Komo says Pro users get GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini and Grok. If that holds, it is the same pitch as Perplexity Pro at the same price. - **No card to start.** The Free plan is "no card required" in Komo's own words, the sign-in page offers Google, Microsoft or email, and the Discover feed doubles as a gallery of what the engine can do. ## What it doesn't do well - **No privacy policy. No terms.** On 7 September 2026 komo.ai/privacy and komo.ai/terms returned 404\. No legal link appears on the pricing, sign-in or Discover pages. The company's last published policy, dated 19 March 2026, was written for the sales product. A search engine that keeps your history and has no policy on what it does with it should not hold anything you would mind leaking. - **Three products in six months.** Search engine, sales platform, waitlist, search engine. The sales product's docs are still live and still point at komo.ai. Nothing on the site explains the change, and there is no blog, changelog or about page to explain it. - **Credits are opaque.** No published cost per search, per deep-research run or per people search. You cannot budget. - **No support channel.** No help centre, no contact page, no status page for the search product. The only addresses we found, admin@komo.ai and support@komo.ai, are in the sales product's documentation. - **Citations can be padding.** The cell-transport answer shows the engine attaching irrelevant papers to a correct answer. That is worse than no citation, because it looks checked. - **USD only, GST silent.** Standard for a US start-up, but Komo does not even state the currency on the page. The dollar sign is assumed. ## Australian fit **AUD pricing:** none. **GST:** not mentioned. **Data residency:** unknown, because there is no policy to read. The March 2026 policy, when it existed, said customer data was not used to train general-purpose models and that third-party AI providers were bound by data-processing agreements. It had sections for European, UK, Swiss and Californian users and none for Australians. Whether any of it still applies to the search product is not stated. **Support:** nothing reachable from the search app in any time zone. **Australian context in answers:** untested, and nothing on the site suggests the engine knows where you are. The Discover feed on the day we looked was mostly Spanish-language homework. **Privacy Act position:** an Australian business feeding client questions into a tool with no privacy policy has no basis for the "reasonable steps" the Act expects before personal information goes offshore. Keep it to public-domain questions. **Australian Fit score: 1/5.** Every item on our checklist is missing: AUD pricing, a privacy position, a GST statement, a support channel, and any Australian signal in the product. We do not give a one lightly. Komo earns it by publishing nothing. ## Alternatives - [**Perplexity**](https://www.theaidirectory.com.au/perplexity-ai-review-australia/) (21/25) is the tool Komo is imitating, and our pick. Pro is \~A$28 a month, or \~A$23 a month on annual billing at the same rate, with published policies and a track record. Consider it if you would actually pay for AI search. - [**Genspark**](https://www.theaidirectory.com.au/review-genspark-australia-2026/) (15/25) does research-style answers plus agent tasks. Consider it if you want one tool that also builds things from what it finds. - [**You.com**](https://www.theaidirectory.com.au/review-you-com-australia-2026/) (12/25) went the other way from Komo, from consumer search toward enterprise. Consider it only if you are already inside its business tier. ## Bottom line Komo the search engine is not bad. The shared answers we could read are structured, cited and fast to scan, and the price is fair against the market leader. If you want a free daily ration of AI search and you ask it nothing you would not ask a stranger, the free tier is harmless. Komo the company is the problem. It has pointed komo.ai at three different businesses this year, still has the previous one's documentation live, and has taken down its privacy policy and terms rather than rewriting them. Until a policy is back on the site and a credit table is published, there is no case for paying. There is no case for putting client work through it either. What would change our view: a privacy policy and terms on komo.ai, a published credit cost per search, a support address on the search product, and six months of the homepage staying the same. We will re-check in December. ## Score | Criterion | Score | Notes | | --------------------- | -------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Value for Money | 2/5 | Free daily credits and Pro priced level with Perplexity; but USD only, and with no published cost per credit the free tier cannot be sized and the paid tiers cannot be judged fair | | Ease of Use | 3/5 | Public face only: Google/Microsoft/email sign-in, "no card required", clean answer layout; but no search at all without an account, and no docs or onboarding | | Feature Depth | 2/5 | Public face only: cited answers and premium-model choice; Firsthand marketplace unproven and empty; padded citations on a front-page answer; no integrations, no changelog | | Australian Fit | 1/5 | No AUD pricing, no privacy policy or terms, no GST statement, no support channel, no Australian signal | | Reliability & Support | 1/5 | No status page, no support route, no documentation for the search product; three product identities in 2026 and the legal pages removed | | **Total** | **9/25** | ⭐⭐ Below Average | Update history - **9 Oct 2026 — re-verified by browser from Australia; negative confirmed, ladder unchanged.** `komo.ai/pricing` on an Australian connection: Free $0 with 25 daily credits; **Pro $17 and Max $170 a month billed annually**; top-ups $5 for 500 and $20 for 2,500 credits — the table above to the dollar. The monthly toggle, not recorded in September: **Pro $20 and Max $200 month-to-month** (the annual rate is the 15% saving the page advertises). Markup: bare `$`, no `USD`, `A$` or `AUD` string. `aud_native: false` set explicitly (it was unset). Housekeeping note under our editions policy. Capture: `Dossiers/captures/komo-pricing-2026-10-09.txt`; Wayback save queued 9 Oct 2026 (AUD queue #371). ## Sources - **Primary —** Komo pricing page (Free, Pro, Max, top-ups, credit wording, model names), read in a rendered browser session 7 September 2026\. https://komo.ai/pricing · [Wayback snapshot 7 September 2026 AEST](https://web.archive.org/web/20260906213157/https://komo.ai/pricing) — the archive holds the page shell; plan prices load by script. - **Primary —** Komo homepage ("Komo — AI Search Engine": New search, History, Firsthand, Earn), 7 September 2026\. https://komo.ai/ · [Wayback snapshot 7 September 2026 AEST](https://web.archive.org/web/20260906213236/https://komo.ai/) - **Primary —** Komo Discover feed (community-shared answers, seeded items dated 11–12 August 2026), 7 September 2026\. https://komo.ai/discover · [Wayback snapshot 7 September 2026 AEST](https://web.archive.org/web/20260906214315/https://komo.ai/discover) - **Primary —** Shared answer, "How close are solid-state batteries to commercialization?" (six sources, inline citations), dated 11 August 2026\. https://komo.ai/share/seedSSB001 · [Wayback snapshot 7 September 2026 AEST](https://web.archive.org/web/20260906214350/https://komo.ai/share/seedSSB001) - **Primary —** Shared answer, "Mecanismos que utilizan la célula para el transporte de sustancias" (eight Semantic Scholar citations), dated 4 September 2026\. https://komo.ai/share/xsJWKS3QpK · [Wayback snapshot 7 September 2026 AEST](https://web.archive.org/web/20260906215049/https://komo.ai/share/xsJWKS3QpK) - **Primary —** Komo Firsthand page ("Paid answers from people who were actually there"), rendered 7 September 2026\. https://komo.ai/firsthand · [Wayback snapshot 7 September 2026 AEST](https://web.archive.org/web/20260906215103/https://komo.ai/firsthand) - **Primary (archived) —** komo.ai homepage as "The AI Revenue Engine", 30 May 2026\. [Wayback snapshot 30 May 2026](https://web.archive.org/web/20260530131340/https://komo.ai/) - **Primary (archived) —** komo.ai homepage as "The Self-Driving Business" waitlist, 16 August 2026\. [Wayback snapshot 16 August 2026](https://web.archive.org/web/20260816074615/https://komo.ai/) - **Primary (archived) —** komo.ai homepage as an AI search engine with "Get Premium", 2 March 2025\. [Wayback snapshot 2 March 2025](https://web.archive.org/web/20250302001231/https://komo.ai/) - **Primary (archived) —** Komo AI Corp Privacy Policy, last updated 19 March 2026 (no model training on customer data; EEA/UK/Swiss and California sections; no Australian section). komo.ai/privacy returned 404 on 7 September 2026\. [Wayback snapshot 13 June 2026](https://web.archive.org/web/20260613125534/https://komo.ai/privacy) - **Primary (archived) —** Komo AI Corp Terms of Service, last updated 19 March 2026 (legal entity and New York address; New York governing law; 18+ business use). komo.ai/terms returned 404 on 7 September 2026\. [Wayback snapshot 13 June 2026](https://web.archive.org/web/20260613122655/https://komo.ai/terms) - **Primary —** Komo AI documentation, "The AI Revenue Engine" overview and refund policy (support addresses; sales product still documented), 7 September 2026\. https://docs.komo.ai/welcome · [Wayback snapshot 7 September 2026 AEST](https://web.archive.org/web/20260906214433/https://docs.komo.ai/welcome) · https://docs.komo.ai/support/refund-policy · [Wayback snapshot 7 September 2026 AEST](https://web.archive.org/web/20260906214509/https://docs.komo.ai/support/refund-policy) - **Exchange rate —** Frankfurter (European Central Bank reference rates), 1 USD = 1.3882 AUD on 4 September 2026\. https://api.frankfurter.dev/v1/latest?base=USD&symbols=AUD Dossier: `Dossiers/dossier-komo-2026.md` (7 September 2026). **Update history:** 7 September 2026 — written from scratch. 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