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points by charcircuit 2 days ago | 0 comments

>Any API use given away for free eats into Kagi's (already slim) margins

I refuse to believe there is a negligible margin decrease for agents using the regular search budget. Searching is cheap.

[–] zbentley 2 days ago

It’s about repackaging. With free/bundled API pricing, resellers could provide agents that min/maxed Kago API tokens in the background, eating Kagi’s compute abd effectively repackaging a competitor that deterred new human subscriptions.

That’s a bad business decision in the same way it would be a bad business decision for Netflix to re-enable infinite account sharing.

[–] charcircuit 2 days ago

I'm not sure what you are trying to say. We are talking about a tiny amount of compute.