Kagi seems really expensive? They say 240 searches a month costs them $3. But I don’t see how that works. You can run a c5.18xlarge instance for a full hour for that price, and it seems unlikely every search takes 15 seconds of CPU time on all 72 cpus.

Of course they may need multiple instances to search in parallel, but the math per user/search would remain the same.

It’s still nice that someone is making paid search though, and that alone would be enough reason to pay :)