Comment by gavinhoward
14 days ago
My problem with Kagi is the AI junk. I get that people want it, but I do not, and I don't want to pay for it. In other words, if there is no "zero AI" plan that is cheaper than the equivalent one with AI, then count me out.
And it doesn't even have to be that much cheaper. Maybe 15% or so.
That said, a lot of people want it, so I hold no grudge that they do it. It certainly is reasonable use of AI compared to others.
> it doesn't even have to be that much cheaper. Maybe 15% or so
Isn’t this the $10 versus $25 plan? Are you saying you’d feel better if they charged you $9 and turned off quick answers? (Which are totally optional to use.)
The $10/mo. plan is technically not "without AI". You still have FastGPT (quick answers), meaning any query ending with "?" aggregates an answer based on the scraping of the top search results, rather fast. And you have Kagi Translate, and Universal Summarizer. So there isn't a "no AI Kagi subscription".
But the search itself is worth $10/mo. if you ask me.
I subscribed a year before I bought into AI, and I was very happy with it.
I believe you're funding a free tier more than you're funding AI product research.
The AI stuff is mostly easy to ignore, just don't end your queries with a question mark. Image search is more annoying, though, because you have to click a button every time to remove AI results. You can't set a persistent preference.
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> it doesn't even have to be that much cheaper. Maybe 15% or so
Isn’t this the $10 versus $25 plan?