Content Shelf
Content Shelf scores 49/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; self-serve checkout is available; a free entry path exists.
Content Shelf pricing
Premium
$14/mo
flatPremium Plus
$29/mo
flatEnterprise
$44/mo
flatWhite Label
$99/mo
flatHow Content Shelf scores on the agent-ready dimensions
Public pricing visibility
15 / 15
Self-serve checkout
15 / 15
Public API + docs
0 / 20
Usage-based / metered pricing
0 / 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
49 / 100
What it actually costs at typical scale
1 store on Premium plan during free trial
$0/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
30 days (no card)
Trust & compliance
Certifications
SSO / SAML
Unknown
RBAC
Unknown
Audit logs
Unknown
Data residency
Positioning & ecosystem
“Free to Start, Affordable to Stay”
Buyer persona
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Content Shelf?
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.
- PPU requires account creation and an issued API key; a fully unauthenticated agent purchase is not yet supported.
- No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
How Content Shelf 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 | Pricing Overview | ContentShelf.com — All plans include 30 Days Free. Prices are monthly. Additional storage is $2 per GB. Additional bandwidth is $.20 cents per GB. |
| tier_count | 4 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | null |
| free_tier | false |
| free_tier_terms | null |
| per_unit_price | null |
| annual_required | false |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 3 |
| sales_only_tiers | 0 |
| public_api_docs_url | https://contentshelf.com/developers |
| api_docs_auth_walled | false |
| ai_pricing_json_present | false |
| agents_txt_present | false |
| anonymous_purchase_path | false |
| per_unit_classification | {"unit_class":"data_volume","confidence":"rejected","agent_task_price_forecastable":"no","rejected_reason":"reject-context word found within ±200 chars (seat/period/credit/etc.)","evidence_text":"$2 per GB"} |
| usage_headline_present | false |
| custom_tier_present | true |
| agent_friendly | {"ai_pricing_json":false,"agents_txt":false,"llms_txt":false,"sitemap_xml":true,"mcp_server_card":false,"agent_skills_index":false,"x402_supported":false} |
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/ 100 (rubric v2.0)Shopping Cart
Not advertised
4
No
Sales-led
3 / 0
Public
No
Not published
2026-05-09
Tier-based subscription
Content Shelf pricing starts at $14/mo for the Premium plan; a Premium Plus plan is $29/mo and an Enterprise plan is $44/mo, with a White Label option at $99/mo. All plans are billed monthly.
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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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