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21 days later

I bought the Professional Plan because I liked the sound of unlimited questions I could post to the FastGPT assistant. I tried it out on the website, and I found the results were good. Better than my experience on the common search engines—also, I was excited about all the integrations with my code editor of choice. Why leave my editor if I could get all my questions answered in right in my editor?

But I hadn't noticed that the unlimited questions only applies to the "web experience."—I had a chat with support where I was informed that the API require me to pay on top of the ~$100 I already payed.

So, I suggest the following—and I know I am no businessman, but hear me out: How about allowing "unlimted" questions via the API but with throttling. Say, a couple of questions per minute; and perhaps a dosen request pr hour. That way the "unlimited" API could be exposed but not abused.

Currently, I could automate a browser, and post from my editor via it and get answers to my questions, but that is just silly.

Just like any other API request, but limited to a handful of requests per minute, and a reasonable amount of requests pr hour.

  • Vlad replied to this.

    gausby Mostly because any sort of automated use would probably propel the costs for us to the skies, and we are already on razor thin margins. So this is why we ask users to pay for additional scripted usage via the API.

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        2 months later

        Hi! I am an Ultimate Subscriber, and was surprised that I needed to pay additional for calls made to the !code bang outside the Orion Browser, for example, in Emacs, with FLOSS gptel (https://github.com/karthink/gptel)

        It certainly makes more costly to use the AI for coding in the Code Editor of choice (pressumably, that's actually what most of us coders would want to do with AI for coding assistance!).

        Why is it "free" to use it from the browser (Orion, for example), but it's required for more payments for code assistance?

        If a user is already paying for !code assistance, it would be fantastic to get the same help in the code editor of choice!

          oscarvarto changed the title to Why don't make the !code bang available for free for Ultimate (paying) subscribers outside Orion? .
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              a month later

              It would be really nice to have a free allowance of 2-5$ in credits as ultimate user to power some smaller private projects and perform some tests.

                4 months later

                Some sort of API access should be included with Professional and Ultimate. I think the Perplexity people do this the right way: Professional subscribers get a monthly $5 credit for API access. Need more? Buy more.

                In Kagi's case, limiting this basic API access to Search will be appealing enough for most users.

                  8 months later

                  Seconded - I'd hope to get at least some credits at the professional tier. I've been working on a Raycast extension (https://www.raycast.com/fearoffish/kagi-search) and I'd really like to use it more, but paying per search over my "unlimited search" plan is a real disincentive. I understand the fear of abuse, but a quota and a rate limit should do just that.

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