It's almost twice as expensive as paying for Kagi directly, but I think it's worth it to use athenut when I actually need higher quality results and continue using duckduckgo when I'm just using it to find specific pages. The latter constitutes the majority of my web searches. 

 Pretty sure the price is what it costs to offer the API with a commercial license 

 I see, that would make more sense.

I like things like this and ppq.ai , which I use pretty much every day, to spend Bitcoin instead of buying subscriptions. Initech.global to buy vps's with lightning, etc. I hope to see more! 

 I too do hate subscriptions 🫡 

 Yeah it's just what the api costs me I have no profit motive just trying not to lose money would love for it to be cheaper.