Crunchbase
Crunchbase scores 49/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; self-serve checkout is available; a free entry path exists.
Crunchbase pricing
Free
Free
foreverPro
$99/mo
or $49/mo billed annuallyBusiness
$199/mo
billed annuallyHow Crunchbase 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
Pro plan billed annually (1 account)
$49/mo
Pro plan billed monthly (1 account)
$99/mo
Business plan billed annually (1 account)
$199/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
Minimum commit
$588
Minimum term
12 months
Invoice payment available
Purchase orders supported
MSA required
DPA available
Unknown
Security review required
Unknown
Trial
7 days (no card)
Annual discount
38% off
Trust & compliance
Certifications
SSO / SAML
Unknown
RBAC
Unknown
Audit logs
Unknown
Positioning & ecosystem
“Choose the Right Solution for You”
Buyer persona
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Crunchbase?
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 Crunchbase 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 | at $49.0. Offers Custom plan. |
| tier_count | 2 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | 49 |
| free_tier | false |
| free_tier_terms | null |
| per_unit_price | null |
| annual_required | false |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 1 |
| 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 |
| agent_friendly | {"ai_pricing_json":false,"agents_txt":false,"llms_txt":false,"sitemap_xml":false,"mcp_server_card":false,"agent_skills_index":false,"x402_supported":false} |
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49
/ 100 (rubric v2.0)Sales Intelligence
at $49.0. Offers Custom plan.
2
No
$49/mo
1 / 0
Auth-walled
No
Not published
2026-05-09
Tier-based subscription
Crunchbase pricing starts at $49/mo for the Pro plan billed annually; a $99/mo monthly option is also available, and the Business plan starts at $199/mo billed annually. Free plan available.
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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