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Kagi is great, and I'd pay some amount of money for it, but $10/mth is simply too much for me personally to pay for a search engine. I understand why others do
by SadTrombone 3mo ago
Kagi is great, and I'd pay some amount of money for it, but $10/mth is simply too much for me personally to pay for a search engine. I understand why others do and enjoyed my Kagi experience, however. If only the $5 plan had more than 300 searches.
- haburka 3mo agoI have hit the 300 search limit once in a few years. It’s usually quite enough
- neysofu 3mo agoJust to add another data point to this, 300 would absolutely not be enough for me. Here's my usage stats: Jul 2026 939 Jun 2026 1,317 May 2026 1,924 Apr 2026 2,537 Mar 2026 2,183 Feb 2026 2,038 Jan 2026 2,392
- Groxx 3mo agoYep, in my one month paid trial I hit 300 after about 2 weeks, and I was being conscious of when I used it vs other engines. I'd probably clear 1000 if I wasn't. Their claims of "most people don't use 300+" has an EXTREME survivorship bias. I'd happily pay the base price if it weren't so limited - maybe if I wasn't subsidizing the LLM? Instead I just cancelled.
- freehorse 3mo agoIt depends on how often you search to find things, how much chronically online you are etc. I do 800-1200 searches per month, and that's excluding !w etc bangs that I also heavily use.
- Novosell 3mo agoI seem do to about 1000 searches a month, though I'm not sure if that's also including my partners usage. Less than 10 searches a day is crazy to me :O But I have quite PC-centric hobbies, I suppose.
- tombert 3mo ago$10/month is a bit steep, but if you have any friends and/or family members you could split the costs with, I don't think that the family plans are unreasonable. That's what I do now.
- secabeen 3mo agoDo they even expose much cross users? One of my sports apps has a Family Plan, and my "family" is three other players who organized ourselves on FB. We split the cost evenly and it saves us like 50% each. I don't even know their names.
- JohnFen 3mo agoI consider that expense to be well-spent. The value I get is well worth the price.
- mihaaly 3mo agoThat plan comes with Kagi Assistant, which is more than enough with big selection of simple models for a great portion of AI assisted queries. If you need no advanced Ai tasks then that is way enough. Recently I started to get hold of the daily events with Kagi News, world, science, local news, AI, Cybersecurity, ... That gives a very good platform to have a broad overview quickly and as a jumping board into details of specific events making me interested. Usually it is better for (configurable to my needs) quick overview than any big news portals out there.
- temp0826 3mo agoIf they offered a cheap plan ($2-3/mo) without the extras I'd sign up in a heartbeat. I happily pay for nextdns and being in that ballpark is reasonable to me.
- 201984 3mo agoDepends on your financial situation, but $10 is nothing these days. That's the price of a bougie coffee, half the price of going out to eat, half the price of a movie ticket, or less than 2 gallons of gas in some states. For most people here, it's probably 20min of labor after taxes or less, for something you use constantly. You pay several times more, possibly 10x more, for the internet you use Kagi on. Really not a bad deal from that perspective.
- Gud 3mo agoAll of your examples are things many people are no longer doing because they can't afford them.
- 201984 3mo agoPeople are no longer buying internet to use google, nor buying gas for cars? The others I understand, I'm cutting back on them too.
- Gud 3mo agoYes, people are driving less when gas prices are high.
- jubilanti 3mo agoEven in the US, which is already very HCoL, I think you seriously underestimate the number of households who've either never had who have cut household Internet. Lots of households where everyone's Internet access is on smartphones via MNVO mobile carriers, typically on $10-$20/mo/line plans with 5-25GB/mo/line.
- konart 2mo ago>nor buying gas for cars In many countries car is not something essential thanks to public transport. And some people [who own a car] actually stop using one when prices for gas go over the bar unless they absolutely have to.
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- armoredkitten 3mo agoI stick with the 300 searches plan, and most months I don't hit the limit. That said, part of my strategy is if I'm searching for something that I know will show up readily (say I am trying to find a particular website, I just don't remember if it's .com or .org or whatever), then I use DuckDuckGo instead. Not because it's better, but because it saves one of the 300 searches for something more useful.
- benhurmarcel 3mo agoI do the same thing, I only use Kagi when the result I want isn’t obvious, so the cheap plan is plenty. It’s easy to do with the browser’s shortcuts.
- russelg 3mo agoAFAIK using the bangs (e.g. !g) do not consume your search quota, so you can do it via that as well.
- carlosjobim 2mo agoEnable Safari suggestions, and it will suggest the website you're looking for most of the times while typing in the URL bar, and you don't need to bother with a search engine for those cases.
- flakiness 3mo agoThis is such a you-must-be-an-iphone-user comment. Enjoy the good life.
- Havoc 2mo agoThere is also uruky. They’re functionally unlimited on $5 but less developed feature wise
- BrunoBernardino 2mo agoThank you so much for the mention! Uruky co-founder, here. Let me know if there's some specific feature you'd like to see added (email or a reply here is fine), so we can evaluate!