I'm in favor of GitHub alternatives in general. When we looked at what moving or mirroring our repos off of GitHub would look like since their uptime has been falling, the real bottleneck was all the dependencies that still live there. If (when) GH has an outage and we NEED to deploy, we would have to be mirroring all of those dependencies in an accessible way to get a deploy out. In that (sort of) hypothetical situation, the lowest-tech hot fix would be a manual code-edit across servers.

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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