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  • For comparison, Kagi charges $12 per 1000 searches (only talking about their API pricing, like what you’d use with an LLM; their $10/mo plan has unlimited searches but it’s a TOS violation to use those credentials with an LLM).
    by frenchtoast8
  • Meant as a comparison given the discrepant pricing points:

    I pay the Exa premium for semantic retrieval with far higher SNR, plus the academic index [1].

    A field like objective can be up to 4096 characters [2] versus ori_question which is limited to 128 here.

    [1] https://exa.ai/blog/publications-search

    [2] https://exa.ai/docs/reference/search

    by vitorsr
  • Artificial analysis' compilation of search api costs per 1000 queries, for comparison:

    https://artificialanalysis.ai/agents/search-api?search-api-c...

    by agentdev001
  • For comparison that’s $5 with Brave Search API and $12 with Kagi API
    by thombles
  • These services only exist because Google refuses to provide a paid search API.
    by mjmvisser
  • What are people actually using these hosted search providers for? For personal use I've found using searxng-ai-kit [1] (disclaimer: I'm the author) or similar tools to be far more cost effective (free!). oh-my-pi uses a similar method and will scrape search results for you out of the box, no api key or search provider needed.

    [1]: https://github.com/nikvdp/searxng-ai-kit

    by nikvdp
  • @DeepSeek teams, why not train your next series of LLM models with source-aware training?

    https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01019

    LLM's would be able to answer questions, delineating exactly which facts/assumptions/reasonings are prior work and from where (this URL, that book, etc.), and which parts are it's own deductions, or the user's.

    by DoctorOetker
  • Since SEO is big business, and agent driving search is probably the future, I suspect we might see the price of search API's going negative in the future.

    Ie. Providers pay you to use their API over competitors, since then they get control of who has influence on the internet. They can probably get sites to pay to be up ranked for specific queries etc

    by londons_explore

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