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It would be nice if the pricing was such that there was a maximum, either for the price, or a configurable cap for searches.

I understand that it's implausible that I would somehow accidentally search 30,000 times and run up a huge bill, but uncapped utility billing is unavoidably somewhat scary.

I would prefer to be able to say "Once I've searched 1000 times, stop me from searching", or, as an alternate, have a system where if someone on "professional" billing searches enough to reach a bill of, say, $30 or $35, they cap out and can keep searching, but won't be billed further.

    Hi Jaron ,

    Kagi currently has soft & hard limits for pay-per-search plans (Standard, Professional). They are configurable on the billing page.

    The "soft" limit will give you a notice when your paid search bill meets that value.

    The "hard" limit will block further searches until your plan renews, or you reconfigure the limit, and give you an option to redirect your search to another engine.

    Jaron Following Zac's explaianation, I am wondering what made you think there isn't and how can we better expose this to our users to prevent confusion in the future?

      How about displaying how many times a user can search for a set cost as a limit?
      Or, another idea is that the user can set a limit of search counts and check how much the total cost is for that limit.

      1. Display how many searches a user can request at the set cost.

      2. Display how much it costs for the search count set by a user.

        Vlad sure! this page: https://kagi.com/settings?p=billing_plan

        only indicates the price, and the price per search. there’s no obvious way to set the cap when the account is still a trial account, which is presumably when this information would be most useful. let me know if you want more info, happy to help if I can.

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          Jaron Thank you! Yes please, what is the minimal information that you suggest we add and where along your journey would you liek to see it?

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