HourGlass
HourGlass scores 9/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; a free entry path exists.
HourGlass pricing
Sales-led pricing
Pricing page provides no public price; only a free 3‑month trial and a contact‑sales prompt, so model is sales_only.
How HourGlass scores on the agent-ready dimensions
Public pricing visibility
2 / 15
Self-serve checkout
0 / 15
Public API + docs
0 / 20
Usage-based / metered pricing
0 / 20
Free entry path
7 / 7
No sales call required
0 / 7
Card / wallet / x402 payment
0 / 6
Machine-readable bonus (MCP / OpenAPI)
0 / 10
Total
9 / 100
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
contact_only
Purchase motion
sales_led
Demo required
Quote required
Annual commit required
Unknown
Auto-renewal mentioned
Cancellation policy visible
Refund policy visible
Invoice payment available
Unknown
Purchase orders supported
Unknown
MSA required
Unknown
DPA available
Unknown
Security review required
Unknown
Trial
90 days (no card)
Trust & compliance
SSO / SAML
Unknown
RBAC
Unknown
Audit logs
Unknown
Data residency
Positioning & ecosystem
“REMOTE STAFF MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE”
Buyer persona
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from HourGlass?
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.
- No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
How HourGlass 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 | REMOTE STAFF MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE — Our consultants track their time using HourGlass and it’s amazing how easy it is to use. We’ve noticed such a difference in our productivity and the reporting features are truly outstanding. Our clients appreciate the detail on our invoices, and they’re sending their payments faster to prove it! |
| tier_count | 1 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | null |
| free_tier | false |
| free_tier_terms | null |
| per_unit_price | null |
| annual_required | false |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 0 |
| sales_only_tiers | 1 |
| 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 | 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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9
/ 100 (rubric v2.0)Expense Management
Not advertised
1
No
Sales-led
0 / 1
Auth-walled
No
Not published
2026-05-09
Sales-led pricing
Free 3-month trial (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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