Price-scale option: 2-10 USD

nandor-magyar

The $10 price of the subscription is overpriced, it would be nice at least until the product is in beta to have a scale for subscription price from 2-10 USD - with no impact on the service quality. This would show clearly how many of us are willing to pay first. Me personally, I would pay $5 tops, not because of poverty, but I don't consider more justified. I asked around, I know this is not thorough research, but the 1-5 USD price range is what most people suggested.

I would be nice to see you grow and well.. succeed.
Consider this as a small friendly sign about the price-sensitivity of the market.

Vlad

nandor-magyar Thanks! $5/mo (starter plan) is planned for the future for casual users and will come with a limit of 200 searches per month (expandible with $0.025 per additional search)

buteo

I won't claim Kagi is cheap. It isn't.
But after consideration of my search usage I find the pricing for a standard subscription fairly easy to justify. For example: Approximately one-third of my search queries per month (100-150 searches) directly concern my work/profession. Of these, I tend to make 2-5 queries per "search session" to find a particular thing in Kagi. With other search engines, I could easily make 5-10 queries per search session and would often spend 15 to 50 extra minutes wading through pages of poor quality (or entirely unrelated) results to find that thing. If you consider time spent searching as time not yet doing or at least reading about what you wanted (as I do), that cumulative effort and time mucking about in a search engine starts looking really wasteful. With many search engines even aiming to maximize "site engagement", it's hard not to consider counterproductivity as a deliberate feature of their design. But Kagi is basically letting me bank all the personal and unbilled work time I used to spend just searching each month for roughly the cost of one dinner out at a family restaurant where I live. Perhaps it's not cheap, but I consider this very reasonable.

nandor-magyar

The reasoning and the described scenario could be mine.
I do like the results and everything overall, it is just that there is this $10 mysterious pricing wall...
I would separate the professional use case completely. I use a streaming music provider a lot, this is my personal preference that I would like to use it, probably would not have started using it if costed more, it was $3 back then.
It is also be put as professional use, because it helps my work a lot, helped my studies even more, yet still it is still relatively cheap, because of the emotional binding between me and that product.
JetBrains deliver awesome IDEs for a solid price, even their product is something not justified enough by most companies I know, though people can clearly explain how it is Ultimate is more beneficial, than the free tier.
Pricing is heavily affected by the cultural environment where one is coming from - that is a clear, I am from Central Europe.

I'm not over-educated about the subject, but for a search engine to really shine the more users, the better.