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First I am hearing of Kagi. I'm impressed with what I am reading though. The company seems very transparent about their business model, which is refreshing.

Reading their pricing page, it says it costs them about one dollar for a single search query. Holy moly, that seems wildly expensive. I would really be interested in knowing why a single search query is so pricey.

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You are misreading something, it’s about $0.0125 per query.

You're right, their pricing says $1 per 80 searches, sorry. I still think that sounds like a lot. I'm wonder that their infrastructure looks like that making 80 searches costs a dollar. If there is one thing that I would think would be extremely cheap for a search engine, it would be conducting a search.

They query both bing and google for every query, that’s where the biggest part of the per-search costs come from.

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