Cycle.io
Cycle.io scores 42/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; self-serve checkout is available.
Cycle.io pricing
Starter
$65/user/mo
Lite
$500/user/mo
Standard
$1750/user/mo
Scale / Enterprise
Contact sales
How Cycle.io 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
0 / 7
No sales call required
7 / 7
Card / wallet / x402 payment
5 / 6
Machine-readable bonus (MCP / OpenAPI)
0 / 10
Total
42 / 100
What it actually costs at typical scale
1 user, Starter plan
$65/mo
4 seats, Lite plan
$500/mo
10 seats, Standard plan
$1750/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
Unknown
Auto-renewal mentioned
Cancellation policy visible
Refund policy visible
Invoice payment available
Purchase orders supported
MSA required
Unknown
DPA available
Unknown
Security review required
Unknown
Trial
Available
Startup credits
proof‑of‑concept credits for evaluating Cycle
Trust & compliance
SSO / SAML
Unknown
RBAC
Audit logs
Positioning & ecosystem
“Tailor-Made Pricing for any Stage.”
Buyer persona
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Cycle.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 Cycle.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 | Tailor-Made Pricing for any Stage. — Ideal for projects that are still in development or need few resources. |
| tier_count | 0 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | 500 |
| free_tier | false |
| free_tier_terms | null |
| per_unit_price | null |
| annual_required | true |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 0 |
| sales_only_tiers | 1 |
| public_api_docs_url | https://cycle.io/docs/ |
| 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 | 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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42
/ 100 (rubric v2.0)Cloud Management Platform
Tailor-Made Pricing for any Stage. — Ideal for projects that are still in development or need few resources.
0
No
$500/mo
0 / 1
Public
No
Not published
2026-05-09
Tier-based subscription
Cycle.io pricing starts at $65/mo for the Starter plan; Lite plan at $500/mo and Standard plan at $1,750/mo. Paid plans up to $1,750/mo. Billed monthly.
Starter plan ($65)
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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