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I feel sorry for Kagi. I've paid for the last couple of years as I support a better web search.

But I've found my web searching is so small now with AI.

I checked and I did less than 300 Kagi searches last month so downgraded my plan.

I wish them the best but timing is a b**.

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Beside search, I found out assistant is worth trying.

Kagi Assistant + customised search/lenses is super powerful. It gives you control over what context from the internet the AI can use/you trust

I like the assistant, but now with new fair use billing I run out after 2 weeks with the 25$/month plan. I guess the problem is not that Kagi is expensive but that the big providers subsidize plans more than Kagi could afford, so it seems expensive. Because I have to switch after the 2 weeks anyway I kinda stopped using Kagi assistant and will probably downgrade the plan.

wow you're on the higher plan than me. I think Kimi K2.6 (reasoning) is enough for Assistant. The premium model will burn credit too fast.

I use Kagi's search API with my agents, including their summarizer, and it has been great!

This would be an interesting use case. But it seems API access is not included in the subscription? The value proposition would have been higher if it was (so one subscription for both human and agent use).

I would love a Kagi MCP to give my agents a better web search tool but they don't seem interested. I would pay for this.

https://github.com/kagisearch/kagimcp

I think their Kagi Assistant is quite fine for AI search. Free models, or cheap ones perhaps, but for search all are great. With some privacy benefits. I even use to cross-check the findings of Claude, which sometimes pays off! (new angles, discrepancy in important details to dive into, ...)

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