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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.
Ahh perfect, I smell a business opportunity for you! Since search is cheap, make your own search engine and only charge $90/year!
If you use less than 100 searches per month, you can use the starter plan. That's $54 a year.
Starter plan is 300 searches/month. 100 is for free plan.
Thanks.
So it's minimal $5/month ($54 annually) for 300 searches/month, after the first month of trial, which grants you 100 searches.
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.