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They grandfathered me in, and in their announcement said that they would do that for all their early users. So, I don't quite understand what happened to the p

They grandfathered me in, and in their announcement said that they would do that for all their early users. So, I don't quite understand what happened to the parent commenter there. They also made it very clear on that early-days pricing that it was essentially arbitrary as they just had no idea of how the economics of their business would develop, and that they'd need to revisit it. So it really seems unfair to use that as an anchor. They're also being extremely open about everything. Anyone can join their Discord, and there is a channel there about pricing that had been going for months, prior to the change, where people could contribute to discussions and meaningfully get their grievances heard if they had any.

xlii 4y ago
It depends on your usage. With 200 searches/workday (25/hour) - Kagi set as default search engine - I got following options: - Stay at Professional - $10 + $49.5 query cost = $59.5 total (495% price increase) - Use grandfathered - $10 + $37.5 query cost = $47.5 total (375% price increase) - Use Ultimate plan - $25 + $0 query cost = $25 total (150% price increase) With absolutely 0 guarantee ultimate plan will be ultimate. Would I pay for search engine 25$? Of course. Does Kagi delivers 25$ of search quality - no. As I mentioned I did metrics. 50% of the queries had to be moved to other search engines, so Kagi simply didn't deliver.