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Partially Agent-Ready
Agent-Ready SaaS Index · groundcover.com · scored 2026-05-09 · rubric v2.0
Score 54 / 100
Application Performance Monitoring Tools
Self-serve checkout
Public API

groundcover scores 54/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; self-serve checkout is available; a free entry path exists.

See groundcover pricing summaryLive pricing page
Pricing
groundcover pricing
As of 2026-05-09 · www.groundcover.com/pricing
Free
Free
12 hour data retention
Slack community support
No credit card required
Pro
$30/mo
or $30/mo billed annually
All integrations and data sources
SSO support
Standard data retention
Standard support
Enterprise
$35/mo
or $35/mo billed annually
RBAC support
Unlimited data retention
Premium support
Premium
$50/mo
or $50/mo billed annually
Self‑hosted data plane
Isolated authentication
Designed for high‑compliance environments
Score breakdown · rubric v2.0
How groundcover 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)

5 / 10

Total
54 / 100
Effective pricing
What it actually costs at typical scale
10 hosts, Pro plan (monthly billing)
$300/mo
· 10 monitored hosts· Pro tier at $30 per host per month
Confidence: high
100 hosts, Enterprise plan (monthly billing)
$3500/mo
· 100 monitored hosts· Enterprise tier at $35 per host per month
Confidence: high
200 hosts, Premium plan (monthly billing)
$10000/mo
· 200 monitored hosts· Premium tier at $50 per host per month
Confidence: high
Agent purchase verdict
Can an autonomous agent transact here?
Human-assisted
LLM score: 55/100

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

Unknown

Auto-renewal mentioned

No

Cancellation policy visible

No

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

API readiness
API & developer surface

API-first product

No

Sandbox present

Unknown

Webhooks

Unknown

MCP mentioned

Yes

Enterprise signals
Trust & compliance

SSO / SAML

Yes

RBAC

Yes

Audit logs

Unknown

Competitive intel
Positioning & ecosystem
Headline

“Predictable price based on hosts, not data”

Buyer persona

mid market
enterprise
developer

Integrations mentioned
AWS
Google Cloud
Azure
Kubernetes
Value claims
Predictable pricing based on host count
No ingestion‑based fees
Agent purchase simulation
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from groundcover?
✓

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.
◐ 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.
  • The pricing URL did not render numeric tier data on the scoring date — possibly a router or sales-led landing page.
One-line fix
How groundcover 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

false

headline_phrasing

Predictable price based on hosts, not data — groundcover breaks the customary ingestion-based pricing model, allowing teams to scale away, at a fraction of the cost.

tier_count

0

lowest_paid_entry_usd

null

free_tier

false

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://docs.groundcover.com/

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":true,"sitemap_xml":true,"mcp_server_card":false,"agent_skills_index":false,"x402_supported":false}

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Page heading: Predictable price based on hosts, not data
CTAs (40): Agent Mode · Infrastructure Monitoring · Application Performance Monitoring · Log Management · Real User Monitoring · Migration · Synthetic performance monitoring · eBPF Sensor · BYOC Architecture · Integrations · groundcover MCP · AI Observability
Price tokens (19): $0 · $30Per host · $35Per host · $50Per host · $0 · $30Per host · $35Per host · $50Per host · $30/node · $180 · $199 · $12
ProductCapabilitiesAgent ModeInfrastructure MonitoringApplication Performance MonitoringLog ManagementReal User MonitoringMigrationSynthetic performance monitoringTechnologyeBPF SensorBYOC ArchitectureIntegrationsAI observabilitygroundcover MCPAI ObservabilitySee the platformSee groundcover in actionTry PlaygroundExperience groundcover yourselfSolutionsTechnologyAWS MonitoringGoogle Cloud MonitoringAzure MonitoringKubernetes monitoringUse CasesCost EfficiencyReplace OSS StackOn Premise SolutionsBook a demoWe'll get in touch with you shortlyBook a demoWe'll get in touch with you shortlyResourcesResourcesBlogEvents & WebinarsThird Party ReportsLearn CenterGuidesWhat's NewDeep DiveseBPFOpenTelemetryKubernetes MonitoringKubernetes TroubleshootingMicroservices ObservabilityFrom Dashboards to Drivers: Why the Future of Observability is Agent-FirstRead articleCompanyCompanyAbout UsContact UsCareersIn the NewsPartnersCustomersPricingDocsBook a demoLog inStart FreeStart FreeStart FreeBook a demoBook a demoPredictable price based on hosts, not datagroundcover breaks the customary ingestion-based pricing model, allowing teams to scale away, at a fraction of the cost.Available on the following marketplaces:Amazon Web ServicesGoogle Cloud PlatformMicrosoft AzureFree$0Start exploring for freeDeployment mode:BYOCStart free trial12 hour data retentionSlack Community supportNo credit card required, free foreverProMonthlyYearly$30Per host, per monthFor teams of all sizes who like to move fastD…
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Agent-Ready Spec
groundcover
Partially Agent-Ready

54

/ 100 (rubric v2.0)
Category

Application Performance Monitoring Tools

Pricing model

Not advertised

Tier count

0

Free tier

No

Lowest paid entry

Sales-led

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 www.groundcover.com/pricing
Pricing model

Tier-based subscription

Agent-purchase verdict
Human-assisted
55/100 · v2.1
Canonical answer

Groundcover pricing starts at $0/mo for the Free plan; paid plans range from $30 to $50 per host per month. Billed monthly and annually.

Cheapest entry

Free plan (Free)

Actions
Open live pricing page
Verdict reflects Partially Agent-Ready status under rubric v2.0. Source observed at https://www.groundcover.com/pricing.
Agent-friendly features2 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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