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Re:Brave Search removes last remnant of Bing from search res... by Spivak on Friday April 28, 2023 @12:00AM (#35737337)
Well yeah because ballparking at somewhere around 7k monthly searches that would be a hundred dollar monthly bill or a two hundred dollar bill if I wanted API because team plans increase the search cost for some reason.

To be fair this is why the $25 plan exists but if the economics are to be believed is totally unsustainable. For me 1.5¢/search is a really awkward spot. Fixed cost unlimited and GPT cheap pricing of $0.000002/token hit "use without thinking" status but at 1.5/2.5¢ I could actually rack up a rather large bill by accident so it causes me to use the service less.

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Re:Brave Search removes last remnant of Bing from search res... by ldjb on Friday April 28, 2023 @04:32AM (#35738909)
They do provide a "soft limit" (which you get a notification when you reach) and a "hard limit" (which the system won't let you exceed) as options in your billing settings. I think by default they set the hard limit to $5, precisely to stop people racking up large bills by accident.
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