Desky
Desky scores 49/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; self-serve checkout is available; a free entry path exists.
Desky pricing
Free
Free
Freelancer
$5/mo
or $4.5/mo billed annuallyStartup
$19/mo
or $17.08/mo billed annuallyBusiness
$39/mo
or $35.08/mo billed annuallyEnterprise
$149/mo
or $134.08/mo billed annuallyHow Desky 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
Freelancer plan, monthly billing
$5/mo
Enterprise plan, annual billing (monthly equivalent)
$134.08/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
Purchase orders supported
MSA required
DPA available
Security review required
Trial
Available, no card
Annual discount
10% off
Positioning & ecosystem
“Delight Your Customers for FREE”
Buyer persona
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Desky?
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.
- 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.
- 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 Desky 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 Plans - Desky Support — Just starting out on your business? Take advantage of our free help desk features to build a happy customer base even from the start. |
| tier_count | 4 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | 0 |
| free_tier | true |
| free_tier_terms | null |
| per_unit_price | null |
| annual_required | false |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 3 |
| 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 |
| 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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49
/ 100 (rubric v2.0)Help Desk
Not advertised
4
Yes
Free
3 / 0
Auth-walled
No
Not published
2026-05-09
Tier-based subscription
Desky pricing starts at $5/mo for the Freelancer plan; free plan available; paid plans up to $149/mo. Billed monthly or annually with a 10% discount.
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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