Deputy
Deputy scores 46/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; self-serve checkout is available.
Deputy pricing
Lite
$5/user/mo
Core
$6.5/user/mo
Pro
$9/user/mo
How Deputy 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
4 / 7
No sales call required
7 / 7
Card / wallet / x402 payment
5 / 6
Machine-readable bonus (MCP / OpenAPI)
0 / 10
Total
46 / 100
What it actually costs at typical scale
10 users on Core plan, monthly billing
$65/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
$30
Invoice payment available
Purchase orders supported
MSA required
DPA available
Security review required
Trial
30 days (no card)
Nonprofit discount
Trust & compliance
SSO / SAML
RBAC
Unknown
Audit logs
Unknown
Data residency
Positioning & ecosystem
“Get the complete people platform that grows with your business.”
Buyer persona
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Deputy?
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 Deputy 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 | Deputy pricing plans — One solution. Every workforce tool you need. |
| tier_count | 6 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | 5 |
| free_tier | false |
| free_tier_terms | null |
| per_unit_price | null |
| annual_required | true |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 5 |
| sales_only_tiers | 0 |
| public_api_docs_url | https://www.deputy.com/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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Deputy pricing plans — One solution. Every workforce tool you need.
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$5/mo
5 / 0
Public
No
Not published
2026-05-09
Tier-based subscription
Deputy pricing starts at $5 per user per month for the Lite plan; free trial available; paid plans go up to $9 per user per month for the Pro plan. Billed monthly or annually.
Lite plan ($5)
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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