I think it's doing well. I've been paying for it since June and I haven't looked back. For me, it's been either equivalent or better than Google for work-related (programming) searches.

Getting better, definitely. I've been using it since beta, and while in the early days I'd use !g often to switch to Google, it's been months since doing that has made a difference. These days, if Kagi can't find it, Google can't either.

Yeah, $10/month is too steep and the only reason I’m not signing up. I’d sign up for $3.

I tried kagi for a bit, but these days I think phind gives the best results for cs related searches. In addition to good search results, it shows llm responses with a chat interface to continue that chain.

https://www.phind.com/