diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/Admin/Agents/WebSearchSelection/SearchProviderOptions/index.jsx b/frontend/src/pages/Admin/Agents/WebSearchSelection/SearchProviderOptions/index.jsx
index 2dae3f7db4..940f6b474d 100644
--- a/frontend/src/pages/Admin/Agents/WebSearchSelection/SearchProviderOptions/index.jsx
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/Admin/Agents/WebSearchSelection/SearchProviderOptions/index.jsx
@@ -316,3 +316,13 @@ export function TavilySearchOptions({ settings }) {
     </>
   );
 }
+
+export function DuckDuckGoOptions() {
+  return (
+    <>
+      <p className="text-sm text-white/60 my-2">
+        DuckDuckGo is ready to use without any additional configuration.
+      </p>
+    </>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/Admin/Agents/WebSearchSelection/icons/duckduckgo.png b/frontend/src/pages/Admin/Agents/WebSearchSelection/icons/duckduckgo.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ce87627679
Binary files /dev/null and b/frontend/src/pages/Admin/Agents/WebSearchSelection/icons/duckduckgo.png differ
diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/Admin/Agents/WebSearchSelection/index.jsx b/frontend/src/pages/Admin/Agents/WebSearchSelection/index.jsx
index cba4397c79..c4e9907eb1 100644
--- a/frontend/src/pages/Admin/Agents/WebSearchSelection/index.jsx
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/Admin/Agents/WebSearchSelection/index.jsx
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import BingSearchIcon from "./icons/bing.png";
 import SerplySearchIcon from "./icons/serply.png";
 import SearXNGSearchIcon from "./icons/searxng.png";
 import TavilySearchIcon from "./icons/tavily.svg";
+import DuckDuckGoIcon from "./icons/duckduckgo.png";
 import {
   CaretUpDown,
   MagnifyingGlass,
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ import {
   SerplySearchOptions,
   SearXNGOptions,
   TavilySearchOptions,
+  DuckDuckGoOptions,
 } from "./SearchProviderOptions";
 
 const SEARCH_PROVIDERS = [
@@ -35,6 +37,14 @@ const SEARCH_PROVIDERS = [
     description:
       "Web search will be disabled until a provider and keys are provided.",
   },
+  {
+    name: "DuckDuckGo",
+    value: "duckduckgo-engine",
+    logo: DuckDuckGoIcon,
+    options: () => <DuckDuckGoOptions />,
+    description:
+      "Free and privacy-focused web search using DuckDuckGo's HTML interface.",
+  },
   {
     name: "Google Search Engine",
     value: "google-search-engine",
diff --git a/server/models/systemSettings.js b/server/models/systemSettings.js
index f43118c626..9bd4a7bf1e 100644
--- a/server/models/systemSettings.js
+++ b/server/models/systemSettings.js
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ const SystemSettings = {
             "serply-engine",
             "searxng-engine",
             "tavily-search",
+            "duckduckgo-engine",
           ].includes(update)
         )
           throw new Error("Invalid SERP provider.");
diff --git a/server/utils/agents/aibitat/plugins/web-browsing.js b/server/utils/agents/aibitat/plugins/web-browsing.js
index 31e06cab00..0c139515f0 100644
--- a/server/utils/agents/aibitat/plugins/web-browsing.js
+++ b/server/utils/agents/aibitat/plugins/web-browsing.js
@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@ const webBrowsing = {
               case "tavily-search":
                 engine = "_tavilySearch";
                 break;
+              case "duckduckgo-engine":
+                engine = "_duckDuckGoEngine";
+                break;
               default:
                 engine = "_googleSearchEngine";
             }
@@ -499,6 +502,66 @@ const webBrowsing = {
             );
             return JSON.stringify(data);
           },
+          _duckDuckGoEngine: async function (query) {
+            this.super.introspect(
+              `${this.caller}: Using DuckDuckGo to search for "${
+                query.length > 100 ? `${query.slice(0, 100)}...` : query
+              }"`
+            );
+
+            const searchURL = new URL("https://html.duckduckgo.com/html");
+            searchURL.searchParams.append("q", query);
+
+            const response = await fetch(searchURL.toString());
+
+            if (!response.ok) {
+              return `There was an error searching DuckDuckGo. Status: ${response.status}`;
+            }
+
+            const html = await response.text();
+            const data = [];
+
+            const results = html.split('<div class="result results_links');
+
+            // Skip first element since it's before the first result
+            for (let i = 1; i < results.length; i++) {
+              const result = results[i];
+
+              // Extract title
+              const titleMatch = result.match(
+                /<a[^>]*class="result__a"[^>]*>(.*?)<\/a>/
+              );
+              const title = titleMatch ? titleMatch[1].trim() : "";
+
+              // Extract URL
+              const urlMatch = result.match(
+                /<a[^>]*class="result__a"[^>]*href="([^"]*)">/
+              );
+              const link = urlMatch ? urlMatch[1] : "";
+
+              // Extract snippet
+              const snippetMatch = result.match(
+                /<a[^>]*class="result__snippet"[^>]*>(.*?)<\/a>/
+              );
+              const snippet = snippetMatch
+                ? snippetMatch[1].replace(/<\/?b>/g, "").trim()
+                : "";
+
+              if (title && link && snippet) {
+                data.push({ title, link, snippet });
+              }
+            }
+
+            if (data.length === 0) {
+              return `No information was found online for the search query.`;
+            }
+
+            this.super.introspect(
+              `${this.caller}: I found ${data.length} results - looking over them now.`
+            );
+
+            return JSON.stringify(data);
+          },
         });
       },
     };