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Agent-Ready SaaS Index · simplyblock.io · scored 2026-05-09 · rubric v2.0
Score 22 / 100
Hybrid Cloud Storage
Public API

Simplyblock scores 22/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; a free entry path exists.

See Simplyblock pricing summaryLive pricing page
Pricing
Simplyblock pricing
As of 2026-05-09 · www.simplyblock.io/pricing
Billed annually only — no monthly option
Community
Free
Self‑operated for evaluation, labs, and smaller teams
Community support via GitHub and Slack
NVMe/TCP protocol with full CSI driver
Snapshots, cloning, and thin provisioning
Enterprise
Sales
$16666.67/mo
billed annually
Private‑cloud, on‑prem, and production storage estates
Annual contracts aligned to usable capacity
Premium support, SLAs, and a dedicated Technical Account Manager
All core features (multi‑tenant, QoS, encryption, etc.)
Score breakdown · rubric v2.0
How Simplyblock scores on the agent-ready dimensions

Public pricing visibility

13 / 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

2 / 7

Card / wallet / x402 payment

0 / 6

Machine-readable bonus (MCP / OpenAPI)

0 / 10

Total
22 / 100
Effective pricing
What it actually costs at typical scale
1 PB of usable capacity on Enterprise plan
$16666.67/mo
· Enterprise tier selected· Annual billing· Exactly 1 PB of usable capacity
Confidence: high
Agent purchase verdict
Can an autonomous agent transact here?
Human-assisted
LLM score: 45/100

Can create account

Yes

Can enter payment method

No

Can upgrade plan

No

Can buy more usage

No

Can cancel online

No

Payment methods

Unknown

Human approval recommended

Yes

Pricing transparency

full

Purchase motion

sales_led

Demo required

Unknown

Quote required

Yes

Annual commit required

Yes

Auto-renewal mentioned

No

Cancellation policy visible

No

Refund policy visible

No

Minimum commit

$200000

Minimum term

12 months

Invoice payment available

Yes

Purchase orders supported

Yes

MSA required

Yes

DPA available

Unknown

Security review required

Unknown

Trial

Available, no card

Enterprise signals
Trust & compliance

SSO / SAML

Unknown

RBAC

Unknown

Audit logs

Unknown

Data residency

US

Competitive intel
Positioning & ecosystem
Headline

“Take Full Control of Your Storage.”

Buyer persona

enterprise
mid market

Replaces / compared against
VMware vSphere
VMware vSAN
Integrations mentioned
Talos
Rancher
Agent purchase simulation
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Simplyblock?
✓

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.
  • No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
One-line fix
How Simplyblock could lift its score

Add at least one self-serve paid tier with a checkout link, so an agent can pay without a sales call.

pricing_visible

true

headline_phrasing

Take Full Control of Your Storage. — What are you looking for?

tier_count

0

lowest_paid_entry_usd

null

free_tier

false

free_tier_terms

null

per_unit_price

$20/TB

annual_required

true

self_serve_paid_tiers

0

sales_only_tiers

1

public_api_docs_url

https://docs.simplyblock.io/latest/

api_docs_auth_walled

false

ai_pricing_json_present

false

agents_txt_present

false

anonymous_purchase_path

false

per_unit_classification

{"unit_class":"data_volume","confidence":"low","agent_task_price_forecastable":"partial","rejected_reason":null,"evidence_text":"$20/TB"}

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}

View raw extracted page text →
Page heading: Take Full Control of Your Storage.
CTAs (40): Skip to main content · Products · Features & Benefits · Our Technology · NVMe-oF & SPDK · Scale-Out Architecture · Advanced Erasure Coding · Multi-Tenancy & QoS · OpenShift Storage · Kubernetes Storage · Simplyblock + Talos · Simplyblock + Rancher
Price tokens (8): $200 · $200 · $20/TB · $3 · $1 · $1 · $6 · $40/TB
Skip to main content Products Storage Features & Benefits Our Technology NVMe-oF & SPDK Scale-Out Architecture Advanced Erasure Coding Multi-Tenancy & QoS Platform Solutions OpenShift Storage Kubernetes Storage Simplyblock + Talos Simplyblock + Rancher Vela Serverless Postgres See all solutions → Use Cases VMware Migration to OpenShift vSAN Alternative OpenShift HCI Storage NVMe/TCP Storage Persistent Storage for Kubernetes See all use cases → Docs Pricing Blog Resources Documentation Whitepapers Webinars Events Supported Technologies Podcasts Newsletters Cloud Frontier Reports All Resources Company About Careers Press Releases Partners Contact Chat to us What are you looking for? × Search Products Storage Features & Benefits Our Technology NVMe-oF & SPDK Scale-Out Architecture Advanced Erasure Coding Multi-Tenancy & QoS Platform Solutions OpenShift Storage Kubernetes Storage Simplyblock + Talos Simplyblock + Rancher Vela Serverless Postgres See all solutions Use Cases VMware Migration to OpenShift vSAN Alternative OpenShift HCI Storage NVMe/TCP Storage Persistent Storage for Kubernetes See all use cases Docs Pricing Blog Resources Documentation Whitepapers Webinars Events Supported Technologies Podcasts Newsletters Cloud Frontier Reports All Resources Company About Careers Press Releases Partners Contact Chat to us Take Full Control of Your Storage. Community for evaluation. Enterprise for production private clouds. Enterprise pricing is based on usable capacity. Replace you…
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Agent-Ready Spec
Simplyblock
Not Agent-Ready Yet

22

/ 100 (rubric v2.0)
Category

Hybrid Cloud Storage

Pricing model

Take Full Control of Your Storage. — What are you looking for?

Tier count

0

Free tier

No

Lowest paid entry

Sales-led

Per-unit price

$20/TB

Self-serve / sales-only tiers

0 / 1

Public API docs

Public

Anonymous purchase path

No

Machine-readable pricing

Not published

Last refreshed

2026-05-09

Pricing intelligenceInsights extracted from www.simplyblock.io/pricing
Pricing model

Annual-only tier subscription

Agent-purchase verdict
Human-assisted
45/100 · v2.1
Canonical answer

Simplyblock pricing starts at $200,000 per PB per year for the Enterprise plan; a free Community edition is available. Billed annually.

Cheapest entry

Community edition (free) (Free)

Actions
Open live pricing page
Verdict reflects Not Agent-Ready Yet status under rubric v2.0. Source observed at https://www.simplyblock.io/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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