Phind Plus is $15/month and Phind Pro is $30/month. There is a 2x price difference, not an 8x difference. And Phind Pro comes with (virtually) unlimited GPT-4 uses.
We understand that the incentives of setting daily limits for search aren't great, which is why the Phind model is unlimited for free. GPT-4, however, is unfortunately too expensive for us not to charge past a certain usage threshold.
To me the $15/mo plan is just bait so users pick the target $30/mo month. Why would you pay $0.016/search when you can pay 8x less and feel smart about making that choice?
edit: looking at it again, I think the $15/mo is actually just for people who wants Phind "private", so that their data is not used for training.
Cost per search isn't really a great metric. For me, I hit the cap of 30 searches/day pretty easily, but 500 is pretty hard to hit. For me, its just a question of what tier matches my volume.
We understand that the incentives of setting daily limits for search aren't great, which is why the Phind model is unlimited for free. GPT-4, however, is unfortunately too expensive for us not to charge past a certain usage threshold.