I use Kagi because the truth is all other corporate alternatives at this point are unusable swill.
That said, I do not like the company and disagree with their choices in many aspects.
For one, while they don’t force you to use AI features, there isn’t a way to explicitly turn them off for your account, there always the opportunity to rack up token costs if you accidently hit one of the AI buttons.
They still don’t run their own index, instead complacent to just pay the other search providers. Additionally, if you’re trying to escape Google… Kagi runs on Google Cloud Services.
There’s more complaints, and I’m sure others will chime in, but that’s my take.
One of the biggest appeals of CloudFlare (aside from DDoS protection) is they don’t charge absurd[1] prices for bandwidth egress. AWS, et al have honestly predatory bandwidth pricing, they could be 1/5 and still profitable.
So given the choice of paying $30 in AWS egress that could balloon to hundreds, or a flat $20/mo, it’s not hard to see why so many people choose CloudFlare.
unless you’re big enough they think they can shake you down ↩︎