DBmarlin
DBmarlin scores 33/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; checkout requires assistance; a free entry path exists.
DBmarlin pricing
Free
Free
Premium
$999/yr
~$83/mo equivHow DBmarlin scores on the agent-ready dimensions
Public pricing visibility
13 / 15
Self-serve checkout
9 / 15
Public API + docs
0 / 20
Usage-based / metered pricing
0 / 20
Free entry path
7 / 7
No sales call required
4 / 7
Card / wallet / x402 payment
0 / 6
Machine-readable bonus (MCP / OpenAPI)
0 / 10
Total
33 / 100
What it actually costs at typical scale
1 database on Free plan
$0/mo
1 database on Premium annual plan
$83.25/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
Unknown
Human approval recommended
Pricing transparency
full
Purchase motion
assisted_checkout
Demo required
Quote required
Annual commit required
Auto-renewal mentioned
Cancellation policy visible
Refund policy visible
Minimum term
12 months
Invoice payment available
Purchase orders supported
Unknown
MSA required
Unknown
DPA available
Unknown
Security review required
Unknown
Trial
Available, no card
Positioning & ecosystem
“Start for free, upgrade later”
Buyer persona
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from DBmarlin?
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.
- A free tier exists, lowering the bar for an agent builder to prototype before committing budget.
- No per-unit price was advertised, so an agent has no way to estimate the cost of a single task.
- All advertised tiers route to a sales contact form; an agent cannot complete a purchase autonomously.
- 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 DBmarlin 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 | Start for free, upgrade later — Pricing is per database instance, database or node depending on the database type - see below. |
| tier_count | 2 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | null |
| free_tier | true |
| 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://www.dbmarlin.com/docs/dbmarlin/introduction/ |
| 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":false,"sitemap_xml":true,"mcp_server_card":false,"agent_skills_index":false,"x402_supported":false} |
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33
/ 100 (rubric v2.0)Database Monitoring
Not advertised
2
Yes
Sales-led
0 / 1
Public
No
Not published
2026-05-09
Annual-only tier subscription
DBmarlin pricing starts at $0/mo for the Free plan; paid plans start at £999 per year. Billed annually.
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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