If you click into your kagi billing, there is a usage dashboard.
I thought I'd be fine with the 700 searches a month.. but my average is 1600.
$300/year for a search engine is probably more than I am willing to pay, especially for an individual subscription.
I pay mainly as an experiment to figure out what my searches actually cost.
If those costs are covered by advertisers that I block, my free search experience is paid for by people who don’t block those ads. I don’t like that thought.
I may go back to DDG if the new payment structure is insufficient (I don’t know if I search more than 1.000 times a month). But it is somewhat eye-opening how much I take search for granted.