I wanted to try Kagi because it sounds like they’d be better at curating their database and I wouldn’t get SEO results? but they don’t have regional or coherent pricing. 5 USD for 300 searches? 10 USD for unlimited searches? It’s absurd. I get a whole suite of services for the same price as the “Professional” tier. Kagi’s infrastructure can’t be costlier than Proton’s, or Mullvad’s, or addy’s, Bitwarden’s, or Filen’s, etc.
I really like their implementation. If you use a question mark in your query it triggers a brief Ai answer so you can avoid clicking links but if your goal is a proper web search, leaving it out provides links without any AI contamination.
Also not the person you are replying to, but I pay to use Kagi so that I am the customer and not the product.
I wanted to try Kagi because it sounds like they’d be better at curating their database and I wouldn’t get SEO results? but they don’t have regional or coherent pricing. 5 USD for 300 searches? 10 USD for unlimited searches? It’s absurd. I get a whole suite of services for the same price as the “Professional” tier. Kagi’s infrastructure can’t be costlier than Proton’s, or Mullvad’s, or addy’s, Bitwarden’s, or Filen’s, etc.
And they’re still propped up with mostly scraped data from other engines.
SearxNG until it doesn’t work anymore, then maybe.
Is there a tier without AI? Seem the pricing is used to pay AI model instead of search
The pricing was the same before they introduced the Ai.
They should charge less for the slop.
I really like their implementation. If you use a question mark in your query it triggers a brief Ai answer so you can avoid clicking links but if your goal is a proper web search, leaving it out provides links without any AI contamination.