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The thing that has held me back from Kagi (I've had the pricing tab open for the past month, just staring at it), is the usage limits. I have no idea how many s
by bisby 3y ago
The thing that has held me back from Kagi (I've had the pricing tab open for the past month, just staring at it), is the usage limits. I have no idea how many searches I make in a month. I don't know if I'm looking at a $5/month situation or a $20/month situation, and my inability to predict that makes it hard for me to commit. From a single device, my firefox history says that in May I had 750 different variants of duckduckgo.com/?q=X. And thats not counting my phone, or work device. Will the $10/1000 queries be enough for me? (This isn't necessarily for you to answer, but just restating my anxiety around the product.)
I too love to pay for things, and thus use a product, rather than be the product.
- mongol 3y agoIf you use Google, and you have not disabled it, you can visit your search history to get an idea.
- aorth 3y agoLooking at my account usage summary, I've been averaging about 550 searches a month on Kagi. I'm grandfathered into the "Early Adopter Professional" plan so I get 1500 searches for $10, though clearly I need to try harder. ;)
- benhurmarcel 3y agoI just got the cheapest plan, and configured my devices to use Kagi when I prepend a search by "k ". This way I use whatever free search engine for most searches (like when you type "steam" because you don't remember the url), and Kagi when I actually want more than the simplest first result.
- bisby 3y agoInteresting. I do that a lot, which is partially why I'm concerned about count. However, if I'm paying for Kagi, it would be because I want to cut off using other search engines. Either I trust DDG and it's privacy and don't think theyre selling my data, and I continue using it, or I don't trust them quite enough (not accusing them of anything, I just don't know where they get their money from, and I know its not me paying them, so naturally just a bit worried), and I pay for Kagi instead, then I trust Kagi with all my data because I'm paying them to not share it. And in that scenario I've deemed DDG "not private enough", which would mean I dont want to keep giving them more info about me. So in the end, I either keep not using it, or I want to make sure I have enough to cover everything. Which is probably just my own issue.
- freediver 3y agoI recommend starting with a $10/mo plan and treating as if it was unlimited. This is where Kagi is heading anyways. To control cost, Kagi allows you to set soft limit and hard limit so the cost can never spiral out of control.
- europeanNyan 3y agoHey Vlad, I share the same sentiment as the person you replied to - I keep checking my Billings page wondering if the 1000 searches are going to be enough, but decided to just give it a month with the hard limit set to $25 which would be the point at which I should have just paid for unlimited and see how I do. I love what Kagi is standing for and, while I really understand that the business has to be kept afloat, $25 feels like a lot to get better search results. What did you mean with that that is where Kagi is headed anyways? Will you offer the unlimited package for a price which is a bit lighter on the wallet?
- freediver 3y agoCorrect, unlimited for $10/mo is what we are trying to get to.
- stinkyball 3y agoI too worried that my cost would balloon but I find that I actually search less as the results, for me, are better quality.