[freefaler]

I've used Kagi for a year and it was better than Google for most of the searches.

However I think the model will be changed to something more like Perplexity.ai

I've switched to Perplexity and for most of the searches it works better than Kagi.

They'd need to add something like this to survive in the long run, because for exploratory searches tools like Perplexity are really good.

[Terretta]

Perplexity lets a firm switch on SSO and give perplexity to employees without a big barrier to entry. So, we bought it for our employees and if they use it great, if they don't great. Even though we're a small startup, this is true of almost any SaaS we find that lets us control the login to stay regulation compliant. If you like it, and show how it helps your day, and the SaaS let us control the login, we'll "just pay for it".

We will not, however, pay some four or five figure SSO tax for every SaaS. We'd be bankrupted.

Kagi should do this, or at least enable domain-specific OIDC/Oauth2 — the ubiquitous "Sign in with" or "Continue with" buttons like http://xsplit.com/user/auth or http://id.atlassian.com/login since MSFT and Google accounts hit almost all businesses — and then just bill the same as the individual pro price + usage pricing.

As it stands, we reimburse employees who buy Kagi individually, this costs us more than the cost of Kagi, and means it's only one off.

PS. Don't get me started on the MacOS and iOS apps that have no retail price version available. Apple provides no way for a firm to provide employees with IAP subscription apps whether BYOD or managed devices. We can, and do, provide any retail priced app for both BYOD and MDM. It shows up in a catalog on the device, people install it, you get a retail sale. Thank you to those devs who make a retail version available, even if its 2x - 5x the annual cost. Empowering employees with apps is a no brainer if devs just let firms pay them to do it.

[cube2222]

I admit I haven’t used Perplexity much, but isn’t that already mostly covered by the researcher[0] and newly added assistant that can do web searching [1]?

[0]: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/assistant.html#research

[1]: https://kagi.com/changelog#4529

[aDyslecticCrow]

AI is expensive to host, and I don't trust their puke. I'd rather get a classic result page. Kagi is great.