[baobabKoodaa]

I'm not paying for search, I'm paying for Unlimited Assistant. No, they did not "have some limits". Or at least, the product they sold me was very clearly labelled "Unlimited". The word "Unlimited" is literally in the name, and it was described as such in more wordly descriptions.

[II2II]

I'm not going to argue about your interpretation of the word unlimited and wish that its use was either banned or strictly enforced in this (and similar) contexts. That said, until accountability is legislated and enforced, it is not reasonable to assume that unlimited means unlimited. Just as marketing abuses the word, customers abuse the concept. That's especially true in a domain where processes can be automated and distributed, by some means or others.

[baobabKoodaa]

> it is not reasonable to assume that unlimited means unlimited

sure, but I am not abusing the unlimited plan. it is reasonable to assume that "unlimited" means that a normal user like myself will not run into limits.

[maronato]

If you’re not abusing it and are just using it like a normal user, you won’t hit the limit.

As far as you’re concerned, nothing will change, so I’m not sure why you think this is bad for you.

[baobabKoodaa]

You seem very confident I will not hit the limit. So presumably you know where the limits are? Where are they?

[maronato]

It’s all written in the blog post

[baobabKoodaa]

No it is not.

[II2II]

The article claims that 95% of users won't be affected when enforcing the policy. Assuming the claim is true, not affecting 95% of users is pretty much the definition of not affecting normal users.

[VHRanger]

That policy is there because some users were incurring >$500 in AI costs in ultimate.

Out of tens of thousands of users, the top 100 were using 48% of total AI costs.

Kagi is bootstrapped, it can't just hemorrhage money like this the way the VC-subsidized AI startups do

[tempest_]

That is totally unsurprising. I would be curious to see what they are doing to achieve that. Likely automating something and not using it like a typical human would.

[mkayokay]

Maybe your usage might not be affected, I propose to check for a month and if it really goes over the limit, you have the option of canceling the subscription.

It definitely is worded in a way that it can either be interpreted as (unlimited searches and unlimited premium ai) or (unlimited searches and premium ai).

It also may not help that they did not enforce the fair use policy until now. At least that is what I read out of their blog post.

But the fair use policy has been included a long time. I checked 2023-12-25 and found it there, might be available earlier, but no interest in looking harder.

[baobabKoodaa]

They advertise with the phrase "Unlimited Kagi Assistant", so I'm not sure how you can interpret that as "unlimited searches and premium ai". Kagi Assistant refers to the same thing as "ai" here. It's a different product than Search.