alt Hacker News>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.
>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.
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.