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This is paying users.

And what matters to me is: that it’s enough to keep going, securing the service, and that the number is steadily increasing.



Will it ever be sustainable? It’s not enough that the number goes up, it has to go up fast enough to pay the cost of doing business.


Yes, they were profitable before they reached 40k paying users. And as another commenter said: I don’t care how big they are, as long as they’re sustainable, they’re extremely useful to me.


>that it’s enough to keep going

How do you know?

My napkin math says they're in red numbers, but let's see yours! :)


https://blog.kagi.com/what-is-next-for-kagi

Profitable as of a year ago


https://nicolaiarocci.com/kagi-is-profitable/

They reached profitability one year ago, two years into their existence. It’s a cool company.

Edit: Corrected from two years to one year


Huh?

~Buddy, we are still in 2025 ...~ (removed, parent comment corrected)

If they were profitable then why did they raise money again?

>inb4, to expand their business

If that's the reason, where is this expansion? Their growth curve looks exactly the same since they started ...

IMO they invested a lot of money into their AI efforts, so maybe they raised for R&D?

I want them to do well, it's just that I thought they already had a much larger market share.


> where is this expansion?

They hired a technical architect and an email engineer, so the biggest expansion is clearly into email hosting. But I imagine that AI R&D continues. I hope they consider more agentic extensions than search.


Lets see your napkin math.




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