Method

The headline numbers on this index are "36 of 47 gate pricing behind a sales call" and "9 of 47 publish no price at all". This page is what stands behind them: which 47 vendors, read on which days, under which definitions, and what was deliberately not done to get a number. Every figure on this page is counted from the dataset when the page is built; none is typed.

One vendor, one public page, one dated read, one verbatim quote

The vendor's own pricing page is read on the collection date, without logging in, by a person or by a text-extraction tool a person checks, and what it says is recorded. The number in the row is the number in the quote; the quote is kept on the row so the reading can be checked by anyone. Where the page says nothing, the row says so. First collection 2026-09-08; each row carries its own verified_date, and a row re-read on a later day keeps the earlier reading beneath the new one. 6 dated re-reads are on file. The tool can miss what a page hides behind a click; the Gumloop correction of 2026-09-18 is that miss, recorded.

The 47 products were chosen by the author on the collection dates to cover 7 categories of agent, model and automation products, with a few vendors per category rather than every vendor in it. That is a choice, not a ranking: no product is scored, and no vendor is excluded for refusing to publish a price. That refusal is the finding. No vendor pays for inclusion.

The fields the headline counts are computed from

The absences that keep the numbers honest

Every row, by category, with the page that was read and the day it was read

agent-platform · 6

coding-agent · 9

gtm-agent · 4

model-api · 6

support-agent · 8

vertical-ai · 9

voice-agent · 5

A number is a claim about one day

Rows were last re-read on 2026-09-18, by hand. A monthly re-read is scheduled from 2026-11-01, oldest verified_date first; until it has run, this page says it is scheduled, not that it happens. A changed figure is appended to the row with the date and what changed, and listed in the dataset's corrections; the earlier reading stays. Corrections to date are counted on the index page and served by GET https://api.ignatiustheyoungerai.com/v1/pricing/changes. Right of reply and removal: hello@ignatiustheyoungerai.com, terms on the cite page.

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