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No good. Not fair. I put money into the account, you bill me per search - pre-paid usage based billing is the only way this can ever be "fair".
by Shorn 2y ago
No good. Not fair.
I put money into the account, you bill me per search - pre-paid usage based billing is the only way this can ever be "fair".
- whs 2y agoKagi used to have limits on all plans, and I feel like associating cost to typos is a bad experience that you'd never have on ads-supported engines. Even now on starter plan (300/month) a mistyped query would cost you $0.0166 each. Now I use the unlimited plan and so I search first, spellcheck later. Or sometimes it corrects it for me.
- ThePowerOfFuet 2y agoThe time it took you to submit this comment was surely worth an awful lot of those $0.0166...
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> you bill me per search This only works at the extremes of volume. If you're targetting very-low use users, or enterprise, you can price per search. In between the frictions just don't make sense for any sensible target market.
- freehorse 2y agoTheir search API is in beta right now.You can apply for access or wait for it to be released. I guess then making a front end to call it is simple eg an llm could make it.
- bux93 2y agoA sliding scale would make sense. Don't use it? Don't pay anything. Fewer than x searches? Pay Y per search. More than z searches? Pay z * y for unlimited use. I suspect this would also work great for streaming services, like HBO or Netflix. Rather than paying for unlimited use on 6 platforms OR spend fortunes on pay-per-view on yet another platform, just reward your most loyal customers but keep the door open for incidental users.