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Used it but as a student paying $10 for a search engine isn't possible.

by calculated 4y ago

GekkePrutser 4y ago
Yeah here in Europe that is a lot of money. In Silicon valley it's pocket change but here it's not.
- calculated 4y ago
  Yeah doesn't look sustainable
  - _abox 4y ago
    Yeah it surprises me that 10 euros seems to be the minimum for pretty much every online service now. For 10 euro you can get Netflix, Spotify. My Ring security subscription is also a tenner. Pretty much everything that has a subscription model targets 10 euro as a minimum. I don't really know why, all these tenners add up a lot. I'm even dropping Spotify now some months (especially because when I drop it, the next month they offer me 3 months for a tenner to come back, which I find a lot more reasonable as I don't use it much). Kagi does really sound like it is easier to provide and should not cost as much. It feels like they are expecting super-heavy users. Their 50 free searches a month is not enough for me but I could probably do with 100 or 200. But there is no intermediate subscription, it's just 50 free or unlimited for a tenner.
    - calculated 4y ago
      I read that they calculate the subscription price based on average searches per user and something else. I see the main problem which occurs here is that they're not large scale enough hence the unoptimized subscription cost. > They are expecting suepr heavy users. They probably should be as most of thier users would be tech savy which by itself means a lot of searching so probably pricing is right according to the maintenance costs.
ekianjo 4y ago
and it will keep increasing, they rely on other search engine's API so costs keep skyrocketing
osigurdson 4y ago
I read that the cost (to them) for Kagi to perform searches is on the order of $1 per 80 searches. This seems incredible to me. How could it possibly cost that much?
- calculated 4y ago
  They're not big enough, that's why. They probably use a ton of third party services also.

Used it but as a student paying $10 for a search engine isn't possible.

GekkePrutser 4y ago

Yeah here in Europe that is a lot of money. In Silicon valley it's pocket change but here it's not.

calculated 4y ago
Yeah doesn't look sustainable
- _abox 4y ago
  Yeah it surprises me that 10 euros seems to be the minimum for pretty much every online service now. For 10 euro you can get Netflix, Spotify. My Ring security subscription is also a tenner. Pretty much everything that has a subscription model targets 10 euro as a minimum. I don't really know why, all these tenners add up a lot. I'm even dropping Spotify now some months (especially because when I drop it, the next month they offer me 3 months for a tenner to come back, which I find a lot more reasonable as I don't use it much). Kagi does really sound like it is easier to provide and should not cost as much. It feels like they are expecting super-heavy users. Their 50 free searches a month is not enough for me but I could probably do with 100 or 200. But there is no intermediate subscription, it's just 50 free or unlimited for a tenner.
  - calculated 4y ago
    I read that they calculate the subscription price based on average searches per user and something else. I see the main problem which occurs here is that they're not large scale enough hence the unoptimized subscription cost. > They are expecting suepr heavy users. They probably should be as most of thier users would be tech savy which by itself means a lot of searching so probably pricing is right according to the maintenance costs.

ekianjo 4y ago

and it will keep increasing, they rely on other search engine's API so costs keep skyrocketing

osigurdson 4y ago

I read that the cost (to them) for Kagi to perform searches is on the order of $1 per 80 searches. This seems incredible to me. How could it possibly cost that much?

calculated 4y ago
They're not big enough, that's why. They probably use a ton of third party services also.