Kagi – Introducing Fair Pricing

Re:Kagi – Introducing Fair Pricing by verdverm on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @02:44PM (#42954020)

I'd prefer a pay-as-you-go / per API call / search pricing model... to something that if I use it just once, I pay full price for a month. Same rationale for AI in my IDE, I'm waiting for the pricing models to change

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Re:Kagi – Introducing Fair Pricing by dghlsakjg on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @04:52PM (#42955759)

There are any number of plugins for all of the popular IDEs/text editors that let you use metered AI usage using an API key.

For VS code compatible plugins checkout Cline/Roo or just search for AI in the extensions.

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Re:Kagi – Introducing Fair Pricing by verdverm on Friday February 07, 2025 @08:02AM (#42972064)

Plugins will never match the possibilities of a deep integration. Those who build or fork VS code want the monthly fee because they make way more per customer

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Re:Kagi – Introducing Fair Pricing by merlinnn on Thursday February 06, 2025 @06:18AM (#42961292)

The downside is that price per unit will increase as minimum unit size goes down. You're essentially buying at a "retail" price whereas the monthly bundle is wholesale.

But the tradeoff would be worth it for sparsely used applications.

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Re:Kagi – Introducing Fair Pricing by verdverm on Friday February 07, 2025 @08:01AM (#42972054)

I pay $0.01 per MB on my phone data plan until I reach the unlimited plan value, then everything is free

I don't think you can guarantee that the price will go up. If I look at the API costs today, they do not have a sliding scale

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