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Agent-Ready SaaS Index · distill.io · scored 2026-05-09 · rubric v2.0
Score 69 / 100
Website Monitoring
Free tier
Self-serve checkout
Public API

Distill scores 69/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; self-serve checkout is available; usage-based / per-token pricing is published; a free entry path exists.

See Distill pricing summaryLive pricing page
Pricing
Distill pricing
As of 2026-05-09 · distill.io/pricing
Free
Free
Limited monitors
30 email alerts / month
100 push notifications / month
Starter
$15/mo
flat
25 monitors (5 in cloud)
30,000 checks / month
2000 email alerts / month
Unlimited push notifications
Unlimited SMS notifications
Professional
$35/mo
flat
150 monitors
100,000 checks / month
Unlimited email alerts
Unlimited push notifications
Unlimited SMS notifications
Flexi
$80/mo
flat
500+ monitors
200,000+ checks / month
Unlimited email alerts
Unlimited push notifications
Unlimited SMS notifications
Score breakdown · rubric v2.0
How Distill 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

20 / 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
69 / 100
Effective pricing
What it actually costs at typical scale
1 user on Starter plan, basic usage
$15/mo
· No extra monitors or checks beyond the plan limits· Monthly billing
Confidence: high
Agent purchase verdict
Can an autonomous agent transact here?
Agent-ready
LLM score: 85/100

Can create account

Yes

Can enter payment method

Yes

Can upgrade plan

Yes

Can buy more usage

Yes

Can cancel online

Yes

Payment methods

card

Human approval recommended

No

Pricing transparency

full

Purchase motion

self_serve

Demo required

No

Quote required

No

Annual commit required

No

Auto-renewal mentioned

No

Cancellation policy visible

Yes

Refund policy visible

No

Invoice payment available

No

Purchase orders supported

No

MSA required

No

DPA available

No

Security review required

No

Trial

Available, no card

Annual discount

20% off

Competitive intel
Positioning & ecosystem
Headline

“Start free. Stay free. Scale when ready”

Buyer persona

smb
developer

Agent purchase simulation
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Distill?
✓

Discover price

✓

Select a plan

✗

Pay per task

✓

Avoid a sales call

✗

API docs without auth

✗

Estimate cost upfront

Analysis
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.
✓ For an AI agent
  • 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.
◐ Opportunities for the provider
  • 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.
One-line fix
How Distill 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 free. Stay free.Scale when ready — Start monitoring in 30 seconds. Keep monitoring free as long as you want. Upgrade when speed and volume becomes critical.

tier_count

1

lowest_paid_entry_usd

15

free_tier

true

free_tier_terms

null

per_unit_price

null

annual_required

true

self_serve_paid_tiers

1

sales_only_tiers

0

public_api_docs_url

https://distill.io/docs/web-monitor/what-is-distill/

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}

View raw extracted page text →
Page heading: Start free. Stay free.Scale when ready
CTAs (40): Search ⌘K · Apps · Forum · Features · Enterprise · Pricing · Docs · Login · Get started for free · About · Contact · Monthly
Price tokens (4): $0 · $15/mon Ideal for individ · $35/mon Ideal for advance · $80
Search ⌘K Apps Forum Features Enterprise Pricing Docs Login Login Get started for free Get started for free About Contact Start free. Stay free.Scale when ready Start monitoring in 30 seconds. Keep monitoring free as long as you want. Upgrade when speed and volume becomes critical. Monthly Annual20% discount Free $0 Best for testing and non-essential use Starter $15/mon Ideal for individual usage Professional $35/mon Ideal for advanced individual usage Flexi $80+/mon Ideal for scale and fast updates Monitors Run checks on our servers, so you get updates 24 x 7. Run checks using browser to get ultra fast checks. Limited monitors available, based on your plan. 25 (5 in cloud) 50 150 500+ Minimum Interval in cloud The frequency at which checks happen for changes in cloud. Can be set for local Monitors, with intervals from 5 seconds onwards. 6 hours 10 minutes 5 minutes 2 minutes Checks/month in cloud The number of checks for changes for all cloud monitors per month. 1000 30,000 100,000 200,000+ Number of Devices The number of devices that one can run checks on. They include local as well as dedicated cloud devices. 2 3 3 4+ Webhook & Emails Alerts The number of email alerts that can be sent out for changes in monitors, per month. 30/mon (email only) 2000/mon Unlimited Unlimited Phone Push Notifications The number of browser push notifications that can be sent out for changes in monitors, per month. 100/mon Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited SMS Notifications The number of sms based n…
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Agent-Ready Spec
Distill
Approaching Agent-Ready

69

/ 100 (rubric v2.0)
Category

Website Monitoring

Pricing model

Not advertised

Tier count

1

Free tier

Yes

Lowest paid entry

$15/mo

Self-serve / sales-only tiers

1 / 0

Public API docs

Public

Anonymous purchase path

No

Machine-readable pricing

Not published

Last refreshed

2026-05-09

Pricing intelligenceInsights extracted from distill.io/pricing
Pricing model

Tier-based subscription

Agent-purchase verdict
Agent-ready
85/100 · v2.1
Canonical answer

Distill pricing starts at $0/mo for the Free plan; paid plans range from $15/mo to $80+/mo. Billed monthly or annually with a 20% discount for annual.

Cheapest entry

Free plan (Free)

Actions
Open live pricing page
Verdict reflects Approaching Agent-Ready status under rubric v2.0. Source observed at https://distill.io/pricing.
Agent-friendly features1 of 7 present
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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