I recently heard of SearXNG and I use it instead now. Where I live $10 is a lot of money, more than it's worth to me especially considering I use LLMs a lot now instead. I find I search a lot less now.

And I like the way SearXNG is self-hosted. You can configure and prioritise a lot. And it can even search torrent sites etc.

I used to think Kagi had their own index but as far as I've heard most of it is actually meta results from other engines, just re-ordered.

The only thing I miss is an integration with ChatGPT, that would be amazing.