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Kagi should reach 50 000 users in about 10 days

by BaudouinVH on 5/27/25, 7:08 AM with 4 comments

• by CountGeek on 5/31/25, 9:21 PM

  I have tried Kagi for a month and it has been good. Clean results and on point for my basic searches compared to Google. Though not much different than when using my selfhosted searxng...

  I am now trying to decide if I want it for the standard AI models or if I can continue scraping by the available free (restricted) offerings from various providers. There is a difference in the quality of responses between Chatgpt and when using Kagi. I guess that's what you get when using an agent...

• by jkmcf on 5/27/25, 4:56 PM

  They could get two more with better family plan pricing. Going from 10/mo to 20 for a negligible amount of usage is off putting to me, though the pricing makes sense for 6 over my 3. I suppose I can gift some accounts…

• by BaudouinVH on 5/27/25, 7:08 AM

  49039 users at the time of writing this. About 100 more every day. The 50 000 users milestone gets closer every day.

  With the AI use growing and growing, is the premium search engine a viable model ?

• by laacz on 5/27/25, 8:18 AM

  This is a link to a dashboard, not an announcement or anything else persistent over time.