Journalist Hunt
Journalist Hunt scores 42/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; self-serve checkout is available.
Journalist Hunt pricing
Starter
$49/mo
flatPro
$79/mo
flatPremium
$149/mo
flatHow Journalist Hunt 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
0 / 7
No sales call required
7 / 7
Card / wallet / x402 payment
5 / 6
Machine-readable bonus (MCP / OpenAPI)
0 / 10
Total
42 / 100
What it actually costs at typical scale
1 user, Starter plan
$49/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
Positioning & ecosystem
“Skip hours of manual searching. Connect quickly. Gain media exposure.”
Buyer persona
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Journalist Hunt?
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 Journalist Hunt 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 | Skip hours of manual searching. Connect quickly. Gain media exposure. — Journalist Hunt is a subscription product paid securely through Stripe. No hidden fees, no surprises. You can cancel at any time. |
| tier_count | 5 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | 49 |
| free_tier | false |
| free_tier_terms | null |
| per_unit_price | null |
| annual_required | false |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 4 |
| 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":false,"mcp_server_card":false,"agent_skills_index":false,"x402_supported":false} |
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42
/ 100 (rubric v2.0)Contact Management
Not advertised
5
No
$49/mo
4 / 0
Auth-walled
No
Not published
2026-05-09
Tier-based subscription
Journalist Hunt pricing starts at $49/mo for the Starter plan; free plan available; paid plans up to $149/mo. Billed monthly or annually with a discount.
Starter plan ($49)
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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