Kagi is very very nice but at $10 a month it is too expensive for my uses. DuckDuckGo is my alternative when my Kagi subscription of one month runs out.
Try perplexity.ai. it has a paid and free tier. The free tier is good enough for most queries. You just don't have access to the other models. I think the copilot works for 5 queries and refreshes every couple hours I think. It works very well.
Sorry, I didn't see the reply. I do pay for premium. I don't think it's more accurate, it just gives you more copilot (which is great) and you can switch models, with access to ChatGPT4 and Claude, for instance. Also more file uploads, and I think more options in the Library with custom instructions.
