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I was a paying kagi subscriber for about 5-6 months before canceling my subscription. Before that I participated in the beta, and was very excited in Kagi's mission. The service did provide better search results for me than google or bing, partly due to no ads and my ability to better filter out blog spam. I legitimately enjoyed using the service, but in the end could not rationalize paying $120 a year for search. That's more than I pay all in for email, VPN, online storage, password manager, etc.

I was really hoping they'd work on their own indexing and decreasing their costs. For simple, good, reliable, no advertising search I'd happily pay $5-7.50 for. I recently had a thought about re-subscribing when I got this email last night, and this pricing model is not appetizing at all. Not a fan of metering or search limits, I tried using their free plan but having to spend even a .25 of second to think if I want to use up 1 of my valuable search credits ruins the whole experience for me. In the 6 months since I unsubscribed their pricing has gone up and they are tacking on AI which they are just leveraging openai for?

I'm disappointed to say the least.