I use kagi and I love it. When everyone else complains about search engines go to shit, I still get Kagi surfacing great finds or exactly what I’m looking for pretty consistently.

I’m also in the mood and in a financial place where paying for something is substantially better than watching ads. I want a product who’s purpose is to improve the functionality I purchased it for, and I want no reward structure that incentives lessening that ultimate goal.

I would say Kagi is worth it for anyone who has the capacity to pay for good software or donate to open source stuff.