- Amazon Prime is $1.50/month ($0.75 if you are <25)
- Spotify premium is $1.44/month
- Netflix (1080p, no-ads, 2 devices) is $6/month
$5 is decent home-cooked lunch for eight days in India.
Maybe Kagi's target customer base isn't India, and that's okay. But to do business in India, a company has to do, what I call- "India pricing". Maybe there are better terms for it.
you just listed a bunch of corporations that subsidise the lower subscription cost by monetizing people's data which kagi promises not to do. not only that you listed a bunch of billion and trillion dollar corporations that have money to burn and operate at much higher economy of scale. surely you don't expect a boutique small company of a few people to be able to match that
> But to do business in India, a company has to do, what I call- "India pricing".
Perhaps the nature of the cost structure allows other services to do so, but one search costs the same whether done from a beach in Goa or in San Francisco.
To put things into perspective:
- YouTube premium is $1.30/month
- Amazon Prime is $1.50/month ($0.75 if you are <25)
- Spotify premium is $1.44/month
- Netflix (1080p, no-ads, 2 devices) is $6/month
$5 is decent home-cooked lunch for eight days in India.
Maybe Kagi's target customer base isn't India, and that's okay. But to do business in India, a company has to do, what I call- "India pricing". Maybe there are better terms for it.