C1231 95% of our cost is search. Also a single search costs us 1.5 cents to deliver, so at 1000 searches/mo, assuming you are on $10/mo subscription, Kagi is losing money on you.

Regional pricing is typically what companies with high margin products do, or in cases where the cost of goods to produce depends on the location. But searching the entire web costs the same whether done from a desert in the middle of nowhere or from New York, and the results are same high quality Kagi results in both cases so "regional pricing" is not possible. (similar to how an iPhone costs the same anywhere in the world).

If we are able to reduce the cost of search, we would just reduce the price for everyone, we would not discriminate users based on location or other criteria.

Update: Want to add that our Kagi for Libraries program has been created to partially address this problem.

Since launch we are now in 20+ public libraries and this number is quickly expanding. Library patrons receive Kagi search for free. We will have a list soon on the site and if you want to see Kagi available in your nearby public librariy, let them know.

We are giving away this to libraries for free. If the demand significantly increases the idea is that librarires would budget this from their internal fundings, bnringing the idea of government subsidized search closer.