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Perhaps this is just me, but in general I feel like Kagi is holding itself back with its pricing structure. 300 searches a month is not enough for me, and $10/m
by permo-w 2y ago
Perhaps this is just me, but in general I feel like Kagi is holding itself back with its pricing structure. 300 searches a month is not enough for me, and $10/month is too expensive for something I can get 75% of the value of for free elsewhere. I would have adopted it a long time ago if it were $5 a month, or you could pay per search.
- jazzyjackson 2y agoI suppose they are choosing the customers they want and aren't growth focused. I wondered if they had any venture capital in them and was surprised to find they have a kind of community funding model where their investors are their users [0]. It's almost positioned as a luxury good, doesn't have to be better, it just captures the market that /wants/ to spend $10 a month on a search engine with the idea that they're funding a French atelier of bespoke software (and I say that as a subscriber :^) [0] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/company/ https://help.kagi.com/kagi/company/
- permo-w 2y agoseems somewhat reasonable, if frustrating. I wish there was a mid-ground between this model and the ad-exploitation bonanza that every other search is based on