I tested some things out today for a few minutes with a single query ("test"), reloaded a few times without really changing region settings and the likes a lot and then out of curiosity looked into the "consumption" (which should be better called "Usage" imo): 44 searches
I think if we had a query like "%kagi_teclis_test_query%" which wouldn't contact google or bing, but just teclis and maybe also give us a few random web / image / video results, that would be good for UI/UX testing and it wouldn't burn money.