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I've configured Claude to use their search MCP instead of vanilla Websearch and it has been great. I think it's subscriber-only but I've been on the $5/mo plan for a while and have never him my limit. I might bump up to a higher plan just out of how philosophically refreshing they are as a service. https://github.com/kagisearch/kagimcp


I thought the Kagi API was entirely pay-as-you-go.

EDIT: I see I have $5 of "pre-paid API credit". Is this a one-time thing or is that included with my plan?


I also see $5 API credits. I would also like to know if this is part of my $10 subscription each month.

Edit: this is a one-time promotional credit. One must pay for credits thereafter, in addition to their subscription.


I also confirm the $5 you get is only promotional credit.

I tested on my local LLM chat via Open WebUI, 2 requests from that cost $0.02 (so $4.98 left), and after my monthly Kagi renewal an hour ago, it did not reset, I am still on $4.98.

You are probably better off using Kagi Assistant anyways, as you get $10 there on the $10 Professional plan.

For local LLM web searches, to save on cost I will stick with the Brave Search API which gives you $5 free every month.


they recently made some changes from their v0 API to this new v1 with a more complicated model




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