Channel.io
Channel.io scores 87/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; self-serve checkout is available; a public API exists with documentation; usage-based / per-token pricing is published; a free entry path exists.
Channel.io pricing
Free
Free
Growth
$27/mo
flatEnterprise
$90/mo
flatHow Channel.io scores on the agent-ready dimensions
Public pricing visibility
15 / 15
Self-serve checkout
15 / 15
Public API + docs
18 / 20
Usage-based / metered pricing
20 / 20
Free entry path
7 / 7
No sales call required
7 / 7
Card / wallet / x402 payment
5 / 6
Machine-readable bonus (MCP / OpenAPI)
0 / 10
Total
87 / 100
What it actually costs at typical scale
Growth plan with 3,000 MU, 5 basic seats, 1 operator seat
$27/mo
Enterprise plan with 1,000,000 MU, 10 basic seats, 5 operator seats
$90/mo
Can an autonomous agent transact here?
Can create account
Can enter payment method
Can upgrade plan
Can buy more usage
Can cancel online
Payment methods
Human approval recommended
Pricing transparency
full
Purchase motion
self_serve
Demo required
Quote required
Annual commit required
Auto-renewal mentioned
Cancellation policy visible
Refund policy visible
Invoice payment available
Unknown
Purchase orders supported
Unknown
MSA required
Unknown
DPA available
Unknown
Security review required
Unknown
Trial
14 days (no card)
Annual discount
25% off
API & developer surface
API-first product
Sandbox present
Unknown
Webhooks
MCP mentioned
Trust & compliance
SSO / SAML
RBAC
Unknown
Audit logs
Unknown
Positioning & ecosystem
“New Pricing Tailored to Your Business”
Buyer persona
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Channel.io?
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.
How Channel.io 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 | true |
| headline_phrasing | Growth Plan — New Pricing Tailored to Your Business |
| tier_count | 1 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | 27 |
| free_tier | false |
| free_tier_terms | null |
| per_unit_price | null |
| annual_required | true |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 0 |
| sales_only_tiers | 0 |
| public_api_docs_url | null |
| api_docs_auth_walled | null |
| 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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87
/ 100 (rubric v2.0)Live Chat
Growth Plan — New Pricing Tailored to Your Business
1
No
$27/mo
0 / 0
Auth-walled
No
Not published
2026-05-09
Tier-based subscription
Channel.io pricing starts at $0/mo for the Free plan; paid plans range from $27/mo to $90/mo. Plans can be billed monthly or annually with a discount.
Free plan (Free)
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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