Basic Search Tier

enkydu

Kagi is really great service and I was excited when I found it. I was willing to pay for my privacy and ditch Google search after I ditched Gmail a few years ago for paid service. But it seems that pricing is to high for casual users.

“Starter” plan seems to be expensive and too limiting.

My suggestion for consideration by Kagi:

“Basic” search only plan without GPT with 300 search queries limit for 2-2,5$

“Starter” plan bumped up to at least 500 queries for 5$

Vlad

enkydu Credit card transactions fees would eat between 10%-20% of the subscription if it was $2. It is not economically viable to do that. If $5/mo is too much to pay for best search in the world, then I am afraid Kagi has a different problem.

enkydu

Vlad if transaction fees are an issue, cheapest plan can be for example annual only which will mitigate the fees problem.

And if only viable option is 5$ plan, then I think 300 queries is still too low limit. I subscribed to Starter plan, and I am still thinking if I should search something or use alternatives, so I will not waste my 300 limit.

carl

enkydu and I am still thinking if I should search something or use alternatives

Is it actually worth agonizing over a couple of dollars?

enkydu

carl For some people yes. Not everybody is from US for example or programmer with thousands of dolars monthly salary. There are also ordinary people from other side of the world, who value their privacy but all subscriptions are just adding up to too big numbers and have to do some compromises.

carl

In this case we're not talking about thousands of dollars, we're talking about five dollars.