Replace to Kagi Search pricing
It has been some time since our last update, and we’ve got been busy with three foremost large-scale initiatives: a brand new pricing mannequin that ensures Kagi’s sustainability, new plans together with Household plans, and enhancing search expertise with generative AI instruments.
We stay dedicated to being 100% user-supported and are happy to unveil our revised pricing construction. This may make Kagi extra accessible to a broader vary of customers whereas guaranteeing our long-term monetary stability.
The brand new pricing plans shall be efficient March 15, 2023, and this weblog put up will go into element of the roll-out.
Desk of Contents
Abstract of adjustments
The brand new Trial plan shall be one time 100 searches.
The brand new Commonplace plan pricing shall be $5/month, with 200 free searches included. This needs to be sufficient for 99% of regular Internet users and permit them to start out utilizing Kagi.
The brand new Skilled plan shall be $10/month and embrace 700 searches.
Each plans enable pay-per-use searches on demand, that are priced at 1.5 cents per search.
We’re additionally introducing the Final plan with limitless searches for $25/month.
We’ve a number of perks for present subscribers which you can learn underneath existing subscribers.
Why this modification
Final September, we had a discussion concerning the pricing mannequin for Kagi’s search service. Whereas we had been thrilled to have attracted a consumer base that’s each tech-savvy and heavy customers of search, the $10 per thirty days limitless search plan was not financially sustainable for us. We wished to repair this by discovering a pricing mannequin to supply a good stability for each gentle and heavy customers.
As well as, we’re excited to see how rapidly generative AI has turn into fashionable in latest months. We’ve demonstrated the Universal Summarizer, a state-of-the-art summarizer of any content material on the internet, which aligns with our vision for the future of AI in search. Nonetheless, incorporating generative AI into search may be costly, so we needed to think about this in our pricing mannequin.
After three months of priceless discussions with our customers on Kagi discord, we’ve got developed a tiered pricing system that’s simple to grasp and ensures Kagi’s monetary sustainability for the longer term. We need to categorical our gratitude to everybody who contributed to those discussions.
Particulars
Free plan: We’re altering this from 50 month-to-month searches to 1 time 100 free searches. The primary suggestions we acquired is that individuals wanted extra time to strive Kagi and set it up on all their units. This variation will deal with that.
Commonplace plan ($5/mo, 200 free searches per thirty days included): We’re excited to introduce this plan as it would enable nearly everybody to start out utilizing a paid search engine and begin proudly owning their searches. Our analysis has proven that the majority web customers search round 100 times a month.
Skilled plan ($10/mo, 700 free searches per thirty days included): This plan is for Web professionals and builders.
Pay per use: Each Commonplace and Skilled plans embrace pay per use function the place searches after the included free searches are priced at 1.5 cents per search. Customers could have a function to regulate pay-per-use prices through customizable mushy and exhausting limits. Reaching the mushy restrict triggers a notification; the exhausting restrict prevents additional searches.
Final plan (limitless searches): The brand new limitless plan is now priced at $25/mo. It permits essentially the most flexibility for the consumer.
Early Adopter Skilled plan: Particular model of the Skilled plan with 1,000 included searches, out there to early-adopters. Learn extra within the following part.
Legacy Skilled plan: The present Kagi plan ($10/mo,limitless) shall be deprecated, however the present subscription shall be honored till renewal. Learn extra within the following part.
Utilization for generative AI is described in additional element within the AI section.
Present subscribers
There are a number of perks for present subscribers out there, so ensure you learn by them fastidiously.
Present subscriber is any account with an present subscription on the time of roll-out of latest pricing on March 15.
Each present subscriber could have their present subscription honored till expiration. Meaning if you’re a subscriber on the time of the brand new plan rollout, you’ll nonetheless get limitless searches as part of your unique plan till your present subscription expires or is about to resume.
This additionally signifies that if you’re on an annual subscription plan earlier than the pricing change on March 15, we’ll honor your present subscription plan all the best way to its renewal.
The title for this plan shall be ‘Legacy Skilled’ and shall be indicated as such in your billing dashboard.
One factor to notice is that Legacy Skilled plans could have restricted entry to the AI tools. At the moment, we’ll restrict utilization to 50 interactions/month to maintain the price underneath management and alter this as wanted.
Each account with an energetic subscription in the mean time of the pricing change on March 15 will get the “Early adopter” standing. This may make the particular “Early Adopter Skilled” plan out there to them as a substitute of the common Skilled plan, with the principle distinction being 1,000 free included searches month-to-month, as a substitute of 700. And when the Legacy Skilled plan renews, it will likely be robotically changed with the “Early Adopter Skilled” plan.
Household plan
We’re excited to announce that the brand new Household plans will launch on March 29. Because the inception, Kagi has been pushed by the concept of humanizing the online, particularly for households and children. We attempt to supply a search engine that prioritizes the well-being of your family members, notably essentially the most weak ones like youngsters, by providing an ad-free and protected shopping expertise. Our dedication to this trigger was the inspiration behind the creation of Kagi.
Duo: At $15/mo, Duo will make Kagi ultimate for {couples}.
Household: At $20/mo Household permits a complete household, together with children, to take pleasure in Kagi’s search high quality and security.
We’ll write extensively concerning the Household plan and its distinctive options as we launch it on March 29.
New cost strategies
We shall be including new cost strategies, together with Bancontact, iDEAL, Sofort in addition to SEPA and direct financial institution debits, which ought to make Kagi extra accessible to clients with out bank cards.
Generative AI integration
The previous couple of months have seen the explosion of generative AI. Kagi has a protracted heritage of utilizing AI. We’ve lately proven know-how demonstrations for AI in search, AI in browser, Universal Summarizer, asking questions about documents in search results and lots of extra.
We’re excited to announce that on March fifteenth, together with our up to date pricing, we shall be introducing a number of new integrations to Kagi search. We’ve taken particular care to make sure a seamless consumer expertise, recognizing that giant language fashions might wrestle in open-ended contexts. Our resolution was to include these fashions right into a close-ended context the place they will really shine.
We’ll launch three new options in Kagi on March 15, pushed by generative AI.
- Summarize outcomes – On-demand summarization of your search outcomes
- Summarize doc – Summarize any web page in your search outcomes, no matter doc sort or size. The Universal Summarizer shall be used to energy this function. (App is at present paused, it would return with our new plan launch, see roadmap)
- Ask questions concerning the doc – enter interactive chat mode the place you possibly can discover any doc in your search outcomes
Generative AI instruments utilization in trial, Commonplace, Skilled and Early Adopter Skilled plans shall be transformed into equal search utilization based on this desk:
Summarize outcomes: 0-1 searches
Summarize doc: 0-20 searches (relying on size of the doc, this may course of 100 web page analysis papers and even books)
Ask questions on doc: 0-20 searches (relying on the size of the doc and the size of interplay)
The Legacy Skilled could have a restrict of fifty interactions/month. The Final plan could have a 300 interactions mushy restrict in a month lined by Truthful use coverage. We’ll monitor precise utilization and alter these limits up or down accordingly.
Orion bundle
As a part of our ongoing efforts to reinforce the Kagi expertise, we’re thrilled to introduce the Orion browser bundle. While you subscribe to Kagi, you should have the choice to help the event of Orion, a zero-telemetry browser that pairs completely with Kagi. We’re proud to say that, like Kagi, Orion is solely user-funded. Initially, Orion shall be out there on macOS/iOS/iPadOS, with plans to develop to different platforms sooner or later.
Additionally, you will have the ability to handle your Orion subscription straight out of your Kagi billing dashboard.
Group occasion
We’ve our first stay neighborhood occasion on March 14 (Pi day!) at 1 pm EST in Kagi discord, occasion direct link.
This session will final roughly one hour and have Vlad (CEO / Founder) and Zac (Tech Lead) to debate pricing, AI, search and every little thing else. We’re desirous to see you all there.
Roadmap
To recap, right here is the anticipated timeline of occasions:
March 14 – Group occasion
March 15 – New pricing plans & generative AI instruments launch
March 22 – Common Summarizer will relaunch as a standalone internet app and an API (signal as much as get notified when it does here)
March 29 – Household plan launch
Continuously Requested Questions
Q. The place does the search utilization information (99% of customers search lower than 200 occasions a month) come from?
A. The typical particular person searches Google three or 4 occasions per day. (90-120 occasions per thirty days)
In keeping with DuckDuckGo’s information, the month-to-month common is about 30 searches per particular person or one per day.
DuckDuckGo – How Many People Use DuckDuckGo?
Q: Why is Kagi providing a Commonplace plan for common search customers who don’t need to pay for search?
A: Whereas it’s true that many common search customers is probably not keen to pay for a search engine (but!), we need to make our platform accessible to as many individuals as doable. The Commonplace plan is our means of offering an possibility for these customers who might not require the superior options of our skilled plans. As well as, we’ve got acquired requests from informal customers and college students for a starter-level plan. Nonetheless, it’s necessary to notice that our core focus stays on professionals, and they’re going to proceed to be the driving drive behind our product roadmap.
Q. Does household plan consists of 1,000 searches per consumer or complete?
A. It’s a shared pool throughout all members.
Q. Do unused searches roll over to the subsequent month?
A. Sadly, unused searches can’t be rolled over to the subsequent month. Whereas we perceive that this can be inconvenient for some customers, it’s necessary to notice that offering free trial accounts and supporting our group members’ salaries requires a fragile stability. We admire your understanding and are dedicated to delivering a high-quality search expertise each month.
Q. What’s your value per search?
A. It was 1.25 cents per search. Microsoft lately elevated Bing search outcomes API value to 2.8 cents per search which can come into impact on Could 1, which rocked the search startups market. We’re assured we will nonetheless worth our (we imagine greater high quality) outcomes at 1.5 cents per search and move this at a price to customers.
Q. Do bangs depend as searches?
A. No, bangs are free.
Q. Are you making a vast tier once more? How would that deal with AI?
A. We’re going to try to see what occurs. Charging greater than $25-$30/mo for search might be not viable anyway. We would want to search out methods to cut back our prices sooner or later. AI utilization on a vast plan could have a good use coverage, at present restricted to 300 AI interactions per thirty days.
Q. Can I subscribe once more to “Early Adopter Skilled” if my subscription as an early adopter cancels/expires?
A. Sure, if you’re a subscriber on March 15, you’re going to get the “Early Adopter” flag, and it will change the “Skilled” plan for you with “Early Adopter Skilled.” It’s our means of claiming thanks to your help within the early days.
Q. If I subscribe to the annual plan earlier than March 15, will or not it’s limitless for the 12 months?
A. Sure.
Q. Are you continue to bootstrapped?
A. Sure. We plan to do our “Familiy, Pals and Customers” funding spherical someday in April-Could timeframe. You may categorical curiosity by signing up here.