Provide a plan without AI functionality

theothertom

I've tried using the automatic summarization functionality of Kagi a few times now, and each time it's been entirely wrong as well as being slower than reading the source pages.
Whilst I'm sure there are many people who find these sort of summaries useful, they are not a priority for me in a search engine.
If possible, it would be great to have an AI-less plan that was closer in price to the old unlimited plan. If this is not practical, it would be good to have the ability to disable the AI functionality in my account - partly to avoid wasting search credits and partly to allow the Kagi team to gain an understanding of how many users value this functionality.

Example query: "ansible integer value in extra-args"

Vlad

theothertom The AI features do not impose any additioanl cost to us (or you) unless you use them. The only thing that is exposed in UI is really Summarize Results which you could easilly hide with Custom CSS.

In other words there would be no benefit in creating an AI-less plan, just a lot of extra work around billing.

theothertom

On the extra cost thing, it may be coincidental timing, but my perception is that the pricing went up as a result of the AI features since they launched together.
The other aspect is that I worry the AI functionality will take effort will take development efforts away from improvements to the aspects of Kagi that I do use. It would be nice if it was possible to signal this to the team, even if there is no difference in the price I pay.

Vlad

theothertom I understand. We remain first and foremost in the business of search, and AI features are there to enhance that experience for some users like blocking domains and lenses do for others. In other words it a customer acquistion channel for customers who want these features in search (lot of people nowadays do). But our main focus remains on enhancing the core search experience.