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I like the idea of Kagi a lot, but the pricing structure is not yet the right one for me. I fully support the idea of paying for search - I paid for Neeva and now that this has shut down I pay for Brave Search Premium. But I despise having limits, that's a mental burden I don't want. And with Kagi that would mean I have to pay $25 a month, and that's not worth it for me.
You're not limited to a set amount of searches if you pick a cheaper Kagi plan... the plan is just for how many are pre-paid. You'd have to do six times the pre-paid number of searches on the $5 plan to get billed $25, so there's no point in paying $25 monthly unless you're actually doing thousands of searches every month.
But either way, there is no limit.
Idk, that might even be worse imo. I don't want to go back to the days of surprise bills like you'd get because you went over your alotted minutes/texts/GBs, or to have to think about whether or not a particular search is worth $.
The typical surprise bill would still be a lot less than your monthly payment for the infinite searches option. You probably aren't going to unknowingly perform several thousand more searches than you normally do without noticing it.
Anyway, your other option is to scroll through infinite ads trying to find the few actual search results.
Pick your poison.
You can set a price point you get a notification, and another price point where there's a hard cap. So I've started on the $5 a month plan which is 300 searches plus 1.5c per additional search. Then I set a $5 limit on the extra searches, so I'll never be billed more than $10.