The deal will be great for now, while they lure you in and get you to drop the competition -- then they will raise prices later.
This used to be called "dumping" or predatory pricing[1] and would be fined in the physical retail space. Too bad our regulators are asleep at the wheel.
Then you cancel and go to another provider, rinse and repeat. This is already what is happening with streaming platforms.
Not after it consolidates, monopolises and enshittifies, no you can't.
Piracy.
Kagi does have AI too, for what it’s worth. I found it pretty damn good, but I wish I could give them more money. I have a year subscription so I’m stuck without being able to give them *anything* until it’s done.
Sign up for another account?
That is an option for sure, but a very disappointing one. And it comes with a meaningful danger of ending up with 2 subscriptions: one yearly and one monthly. They really, really need to finish their “pay as you go” system. I don’t know why it’s not done yet and there’s been no word about it to my knowledge.
Maybe they should just enable a tip option? What do donations do to a company's tax liability and would it be worth their effort to enable something like that?
They already have a system for “prepaying”, but it can’t be used to put more credits into your account, they just sit there, waiting to be used by a future subscription.
Yes and this month I hit my $10 AI assistant cap for the first time, which is why I started looking around for other options.
I do like Kagi but the Gemini deal was too good to pass up as it also gives my a code agent.