Kagi is amazing but the costs are very non-negligible. :F

More than 1.5 cents per search is a lot, they're pricing model really discourages me from making them my default search engine. A $10 unlimited search would be more justifiable. $15 would be stretching it.

If I'm not on a functionally unlimited unlimited plan (rate limiting is fine if it's reasonable) then I have to think about it every time I search. Should I really be searching here or should I be using the search box on stackoverflow or github or Wikipedia? Just introduces some constan cognitive frisson to the experience.

There is Ultimate which is not capped. That seems to be what you want?

Personally, my record was below 900 searches and usually below 800, so the 1000 searches (technically 1500 because early adopter) are absolutely fine for me.

Kagi ultimate seems to be multiple times the price that poster mentioned they thought reasonable for unlimited search

Sometimes reading is hard, thanks.

I agree, but then I have very few subscriptions, so there's space in the budget ;)

Well that's a feature that I might be willing to pay for.

Add Twitter to that list and I'll start finding accessible content again.

They have block/lower/raise/pin for domains, and additionally, they support regex rewriting of domain names, all my twitter results on Kagi redirect to nitter (though I don’t know if that still works, I was gone last week)

Ohhh regex rewriting for domain names? I'm a paying customer for two months but I hadn't discovered that feature yet. Thanks!

Why is w3 so low? I always found it at least marginally helpful.

It is better now, before the revamp, it had incredibly outdated information. Even now, there is very little reason for anyone not to go to the same page on MDN instead, unless they are a literally-just-starting-out beginner (as MDN has more information). That, coupled with them ranking high on organic results, makes people want to block them.