so you wouldn’t save any money unless you’re using search like five times a month.

I'd still take the non-subscription route even if it was slightly more expensive. But unless they charge like $60 for 300 non-expiring searches, I'd probably still be saving money.

That also leads to you using other search engines half the time because you don’t want to waste one of your Kagi searches.

More like 90% of the time because usually I'm just being lazy about finding the url for some specific website I'm trying to go to. If I bought like 1000 searches at a time though, I doubt I'd feel so stingy with them.