I’m in my first month on the standard plan, 20 days in, and I’m at 287 searches. I will have to start paying for additional searches later this week. The 300 limit feels just a little bit low for me.
The 300 searches/month is typical for the general populace, who mostly stay in mobile mode(fb/tiktok/youtube/tumblr etc.) and occasionally open a browser to typein a website in search engine to visit it.
Sadly, from my best guess, these users will never pay for a search engine and they are not tech savvy enough to even find kagi. The professional one is targetted at tech savvy people who frequently uses searches on daily basis to find things. The basic $5/month one is sort of trial equivalent.
P.S. anyone claiming to be never crossing the 300/month quota is probably not searching enough not only on Kagi but in all other ones(excluding Google, where you need to seatch thrice to find anything these days). Entirely my opinion and I am sure, I am very wrong.
I'm a heavy Google user, to the point that I can't switch to DuckDuckGo because the quality just isn't there, and by exporting and analyzing a month worth of web history I counted 4507 searches (not counting going after the first page, which Kagi counts as a separate search). I don't really see who the standard plan is aimed at.
Sadly the ultimate plan is way too expensive for me, 25$/mo is what an internet plan costs here!
1. Using Google Trends (https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US) gives me: "google" "youtube" "weather" "facebook" "translate" "whatsapp" "amazon" "instagram" ...
I'm also a very heavy searcher, and at most I've been at 1200 searches in a month. Do you let the browser auto-fill URLs you frequently visit, or do you use the search engine for that?