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    1 year ago

    The question most people will want the answer to: how much is Kagi?

    • Free trial account has 100 searches. That’s it.
    • $5/month gets you 300 searches. Each search is 1.5c afterwards (which works out to $4.50 for 300 additional searches).

    They state that most people use Google 3-4 times per day, or 90-120 times per month.

    • $10/month gets 1,000 searches, 1.5c per search afterwards.
    • $25/month gets you unlimited searches. You can pay a year up front for a 15% discount, ie $255 per year - which is still more than double the annual cost of the $10 per month plan.

    Edit: Crunching the numbers, if you had the $10 plan you would need to make 10,000 searches every month for a year for the $255 annual unlimited plan to make sense. (255-120)/0.015 = 9,000 additional searches at 1.5c each.

    Edit2: No wait I completely fluffed the maths. You would need to make 9,000 additional searches over the year, 21,000 total over the year or 1,833 searches total per month, for the $255 annual plan to be better value than $10 per month.