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I really like what I've read about Kagi, and I'll likely end-up paying for it too, but I _hate_ the metered fee. I've never run a search engine, but I don't im
by jszymborski 4y ago
I really like what I've read about Kagi, and I'll likely end-up paying for it too, but I _hate_ the metered fee.
I've never run a search engine, but I don't imagine that offering "Unlimited" searches where "unlimited" means "do not abuse" would meaningfully hurt their margins. As a benefit, you avoid losing customers that then need to ask "Do I make more than 5*80 searches a month? How many is that a day? What do I if I go over?". It also just feels like I'm being nickle-and-dimed.
I love that they're charging for the service, it makes me feel like they're building something sustainable. I just don't love the fee structure.
- Doctor_Fegg 4y agoThey're not going to do a metered plan. From an email sent today: > Kagi will come as a free version with limited use; and an unlimited use, paid option at $10 a month, both versions having great search results with less spam and completely ad-free, tracking free, and with none of your search data being retained
- jszymborski 4y agoAwesome! I was just going off of their FAQ https://kagi.com/faq#cost https://kagi.com/faq#cost
- sph 4y agoI sent the founder an email asking for clarification, he replied with "$10/mo is what we decided to use. FAQ needs an update."
- corrral 4y ago$10/m for a household, if this is as good as people are saying, would be a no-brainer subscription for me. Not paying $10/m per person in my household, though. That'd be way too high. [EDIT] Though I guess with no retained search history, we could just share one account anyway, so it doesn't matter. I was thinking about keeping those separate. Unless there are per-user settings that we might not all want to share.
- freediver 4y agoSorry for the confusion, we have not updated the FAQ yet. We are going to try with a flat fee ($10/mo) model. (kagi founder here)