[SebastianKra]

Grandfathered subscriptions will receive 1000 free searches instead of 700, so I'm unaffected by this change.

But it sours me how much money they need to throw at this. They are too dependent on external services.

In my searches, nearly all results come from external indexes. Either they can't or they don't want to improve their own crawlers. Before increasing the prices, they considered disabling their most expensive search provider (I'm guessing it's Google) with catastrophic results on search quality.

I was hoping that AI would level the playing field against their big competitors, but looking at their pricing chart, that won't happen either. Summarizing an article can cost up to three cents per question.

I will stick around, but I don't have much hope that this business model is scalable.