Just started getting this now. Hopefully it’s some A/B testing that they’ll stop doing, but I’m not holding my breath

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    I feel like their pricing would make more sense if you could just pay for your usage, rather than forcing a subscription

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      3 hours ago

      They do have different tiers depending on your search volume and features, so in a way they already have this. I’d hate to have to go through checkout every time i did a search.

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        Why do you think you have to go through a checkout?

        They could just pool your owed money and then charge you that at the end of the month, or let you maintain a pool that you throw money into that they take from as you use it.

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          They have 100, 300, and unlimited for $0, $5, and $10

          How much would you be willing to pay per search? And do you know how many searches you make every month?

          For me, i pay not for the searches as such, but to not be tracked and be shown more ads than search results

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            42 minutes ago

            I haven’t been using kagi long enough to really understand how it works yet, but it’s my understanding that they want you to pay every month, even if you had remaining searches from the previous month.

            If I pay $5 for 300 searches, why does it matter if I do them within a time frame? When someone isn’t’ searching, they aren’t really costing Kagi anything.

            Alternatively, let people pay 1.6 cents per search (or 1.8 cents or something).