Kandid
Kandid 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.
Kandid pricing
Free
Free
Starter
$99/mo
or $79.17/mo billed annuallyBasic
$199/mo
or $159.17/mo billed annuallyStandard
$350/mo
or $280/mo billed annuallyHow Kandid 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
What it actually costs at typical scale
10K visitors (Starter plan, monthly billing)
$99/mo
30K visitors (Basic plan, monthly billing)
$259/mo
60K visitors (Standard plan, annual billing)
$400/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
30 days (no card)
Annual discount
20% off
Positioning & ecosystem
“Your Best Salesperson”
Buyer persona
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Kandid?
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 Kandid 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 | Your Best Salesperson — Expert product guidance for every visitor. |
| tier_count | 0 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | 99 |
| 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 | 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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69
/ 100 (rubric v2.0)Chatbots
Your Best Salesperson — Expert product guidance for every visitor.
0
No
$99/mo
0 / 1
Auth-walled
No
Not published
2026-05-09
Tier-based subscription
Kandid pricing starts at $99/mo for the Starter plan, with a free tier offering 100 visitors; paid plans go up to $350/mo, and annual billing is $950/yr, $1,910/yr, or $3,360/yr.
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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