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Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by boringg »

I think Kagi sounds interesting but the business model is a tough one outside of niche HN types. E.g. I am interested but can't be bothered to pursue it as it seems like an unnecessary additional SAS model cost to my monthly budget.

How does search quality really change my life?

Entrenched behavior is tough to overcome especially ostensibly free products.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by wkat4242 »

Hmm most of the things I used search for are now covered by ChatGPT (for which I use the api which costs cents).

I don't think web search is still important enough for me to pay for. A year ago it would have been. I originally signed up with kagi but I wasn't too impressed and then they came with the limited plans and that was it. Not sure if I'll go back now.

And yeah like the article says it was priced for "silicon valley bros". Even $10 is a lot on a Spanish salary still. But it's doable and 300 for $5 is a decent deal IMO. I wouldn't do that many.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by zamadatix »

How many is unlimited? Presumably they don't get unlimited searches for $10 and, inevitably, someone will use more than they planned for. How much more than they expected is considered "fair use" or however they want to term it and why can't I know that before I sign up instead of guess I'm within what they are thinking?

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by neysofu »

m00dy wrote: post #10

anyone paying for kagi here ? how's it comparing to duckduckgo results ?

I've been a paying customer for more than a year, in my experience DDG is not even in the same league as Kagi. DDG provides a noticeably worse search experience than Google for most queries, whereas Kagi is either just as good or often better than Google.

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by joshstrange »

This is great news. I've been paying for a couple months now and I've been happy with the results and the previous limits weren't something I even needed to worry about in the end (I did worry at the start but only because I had no idea how many searches I do to gauge which plan I needed).

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by mongol »

crisp wrote: post #6

Happy customer here. Kagi is by far the best search engine there is. When I first started using Kagi a year ago or so, I compared results with Google every now and then. Now? Never. 10 bucks a month for a tool that I use multiple times every single day is more than reasonable. The results hit home virtually every time. There are variety of features to customize your searches but truthfully, I never found the need for…

Can the search result quality be quantified somehow? I remember when Google was new, and I used to use Altavista and Hotbot and those older search engines, the difference in results were like night and day, and Google's results were "wow!"

Does Kagi give a similar impression as Google did then?

Re: Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

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Post by ghostpepper »

wkat4242 wrote: post #12

Hmm most of the things I used search for are now covered by ChatGPT (for which I use the api which costs cents). I don't think web search is still important enough for me to pay for. A year ago it would have been. I originally signed up with kagi but I wasn't too impressed and then they came with the limited plans and that was it. Not sure if I'll go back now. And yeah like the article says it was priced for "silicon…

what do you use to hit the api? is there a good CLI tool for linux?
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