AnswerThePublic
AnswerThePublic's pricing page did not render numeric tier data on the scoring date. No per-unit price was found on the page; an agent has no direct way to estimate the cost of a single task. Public API documentation is reachable without an auth wall.
Pricing
$79
How AnswerThePublic scores on the agent-ready dimensions
Public pricing
0 / 15
Usage-based / metered
0 / 25
Self-serve checkout
0 / 15
Public API
15 / 15
Low / no minimum
0 / 10
Unauth automated payment
0 / 10
Bonus (machine-readable pricing)On top of /100 base
0 / 5
Total
15 / 100
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from AnswerThePublic?
Discover price
Select a plan
Pay per task
Avoid a sales call
API docs without auth
Estimate cost upfront
Pros and cons for AI agents
Observational summary written by xpay from the signals captured on 2026-05-06. Not a review of the product — only of its current pricing posture for agent buyers.- Pricing is publicly visible on an indexable page — agents can read tiers without scraping past auth.
- Every advertised tier is self-serve; no tier requires scheduling a call.
- No per-unit price was advertised, so an agent has no way to estimate the cost of a single task.
- API documentation is gated or absent; an agent cannot inspect the integration surface without authentication.
- No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
- The pricing URL did not render numeric tier data on the scoring date — possibly a router or sales-led landing page.
How AnswerThePublic could lift its score
Add a per-unit price (e.g. $X / 1K calls) to the pricing page so an agent can compute its own cost before committing.
| pricing_visible | false |
| headline_phrasing | Pricing |
| tier_count | 0 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | null |
| free_tier | false |
| free_tier_terms | null |
| per_unit_price | null |
| annual_required | false |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 0 |
| sales_only_tiers | 0 |
| public_api_docs_url | https://answerthepublic.com/api |
| api_docs_auth_walled | false |
| ai_pricing_json_present | false |
| agents_txt_present | false |
| anonymous_purchase_path | false |
| per_unit_classification | null |
| usage_headline_present | false |
| custom_tier_present | false |
| agent_friendly | {"ai_pricing_json":false,"agents_txt":false,"llms_txt":true,"sitemap_xml":true,"mcp_server_card":false,"agent_skills_index":false,"x402_supported":false} |
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15
/ 100 (rubric v1.1)Seo
Pricing
0
No
Sales-led
0 / 0
Public
No
Not published
2026-05-06
Discovery files and protocols
Side-channel signals — informational, not part of the score. Each protocol is independent; adoption signals the publisher is thinking about agent buyers.ai-pricing.json
agents.txt
llms.txt
sitemap.xml
MCP Server Card
Agent Skills
x402 / MPP
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