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[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I love the idea of Kagi, but those prices are objectively insane. $100/year is downright exploitative when you consider the actual cost to them of performing a search.

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

Ahh perfect, I smell a business opportunity for you! Since search is cheap, make your own search engine and only charge $90/year!

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If you use less than 100 searches per month, you can use the starter plan. That's $54 a year.

[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Starter plan is 300 searches/month. 100 is for free plan.

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

Thanks.

So it's minimal $5/month ($54 annually) for 300 searches/month, after the first month of trial, which grants you 100 searches.

[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

Take Bing API for example. They say it's about $10/1k search.

As a person who searches 3k+/month + Few hundread Mtoks woth their LLM access, I'm practically stealing from them.

It is not cheap, especially for a service that is readily available for free, but I just don't see myself going back to Google or Bing or even DDG. Search is miles ahead of others imo.