Quaderno
Quaderno scores 65/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; self-serve checkout is available; a public API exists with documentation; a free entry path exists.
Quaderno pricing
Hobby
$29/mo
flatStartup
$49/mo
flatBusiness
$99/mo
flatGrowth
$149/mo
flatEnterprise
Contact sales
How Quaderno scores on the agent-ready dimensions
Public pricing visibility
15 / 15
Self-serve checkout
15 / 15
Public API + docs
16 / 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)
0 / 10
Total
65 / 100
What it actually costs at typical scale
Startup plan for a small business (250 transactions/month)
$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
Unknown
Purchase orders supported
Unknown
MSA required
Unknown
DPA available
Unknown
Security review required
Unknown
Trial
7 days (no card)
API & developer surface
API-first product
Sandbox present
Unknown
Webhooks
Unknown
MCP mentioned
Positioning & ecosystem
“Transparent pricing to grow with your business”
Buyer persona
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Quaderno?
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.
- A free tier exists, lowering the bar for an agent builder to prototype before committing budget.
- 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.
How Quaderno 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 | Transparent pricing to grow with your business — Know where and when to collect taxes |
| tier_count | 0 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | null |
| free_tier | true |
| free_tier_terms | null |
| per_unit_price | null |
| annual_required | false |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 1 |
| sales_only_tiers | 0 |
| public_api_docs_url | https://www.quaderno.io/api/ |
| 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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65
/ 100 (rubric v2.0)Corporate Tax
Transparent pricing to grow with your business — Know where and when to collect taxes
0
Yes
Sales-led
1 / 0
Public
No
Not published
2026-05-09
Tier-based subscription
Quaderno pricing starts at $29/mo for the Hobby plan; paid plans up to $149/mo. Billed monthly.
Start free trial (Hobby) (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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