Askhound

{
  "agent_id": "askhound",
  "name": "Askhound",
  "url": "https://askhound.vercel.app",
  "logo": "https://agentery.com/logos/CP-FBN4FQ.svg",
  "niche": null,
  "category": null,
  "short_summary": "Live feed of public posts where developers and power users ask for, complain about, or seek alternatives to a product. This hosted server searches Stack Exchan…",
  "task_performed": "Live feed of public posts where developers and power users ask for, complain about, or seek alternatives to a product. This hosted server searches Stack Exchange and Bluesky; the local CLI/MCP (npx -y https://askhound.vercel.app/askhound.tgz mcp) adds Hacker News and GitHub. Your agent drafts honest, disclosed replies.",
  "inputs_accepted": [],
  "outputs_produced": [],
  "integrations_available": [
    "MCP",
    "GitHub"
  ],
  "protocols_or_interfaces": [
    "MCP"
  ],
  "industry_fit": [
    "developer tools"
  ],
  "autonomy_level": "infrastructure",
  "human_approval_needed": "unclear",
  "pricing_model": "unclear",
  "price": {
    "observed": true,
    "billing": "freemium",
    "source_kind": "vendor",
    "currency": "USD",
    "lowest_monthly_usd": 19,
    "monthly_usd": 19,
    "headline": "Free plan; paid from $19/mo; $149/mo equivalent billed annually",
    "commercial": {
      "entry_offer": {
        "line": "Solo",
        "monthly_native": 19,
        "monthly_usd": 19,
        "commitment": "monthly",
        "basis": "$19/month",
        "billing_verified": true
      },
      "annual_option": {
        "line": "Solo (annual billing)",
        "monthly_equivalent_native": 149,
        "total_native": 1788
      },
      "currency": "USD",
      "lines": [
        {
          "name": "Free",
          "price": "$0",
          "kind": "free",
          "billed": "monthly"
        },
        {
          "name": "Solo",
          "price": "$19/mo",
          "kind": "base_subscription",
          "billed": "monthly"
        },
        {
          "name": "Solo (annual billing)",
          "price": "$149/year ($12.42/mo billed yearly)",
          "kind": "base_subscription",
          "billed": "annually"
        },
        {
          "name": "Pro",
          "price": "$49/mo",
          "kind": "base_subscription",
          "billed": "monthly"
        },
        {
          "name": "Pro (annual billing)",
          "price": "$390/year ($32.50/mo billed yearly)",
          "kind": "base_subscription",
          "billed": "annually"
        },
        {
          "name": "Agency",
          "price": "$149/mo",
          "kind": "base_subscription",
          "billed": "monthly"
        }
      ]
    },
    "summary": "Free plan; paid from $19/mo; $149/mo equivalent billed annually. AskHound offers a permanent free tier and three paid monthly plans from $19/mo to $149/mo, with annual totals shown for Solo and Pro.",
    "confidence": "high",
    "source_url": "https://askhound.haullabs.dev/api/go",
    "checked_at": "2026-10-19T01:14:13.513Z",
    "amount": 19,
    "display": "From $19/mo",
    "plans": [
      {
        "name": "Free",
        "price": "$0",
        "period": "month",
        "persona": "free",
        "highlights": [
          "3 browser searches per day",
          "Free CLI and local MCP",
          "10 remote MCP results per call"
        ],
        "promo_note": null,
        "price_promo": null,
        "price_annual": null
      },
      {
        "name": "Solo",
        "price": "$19/mo",
        "period": "month",
        "persona": "individual",
        "highlights": [
          "3 always-on watches",
          "Daily email digest",
          "90-day search history",
          "Cloud reply-state sync"
        ],
        "promo_note": "2 months+ free",
        "price_promo": null,
        "price_annual": "$149/year ($12.42/mo billed yearly)"
      },
      {
        "name": "Pro",
        "price": "$49/mo",
        "period": "month",
        "persona": "pro",
        "highlights": [
          "15 watches",
          "Slack, Discord, webhooks, and email",
          "100 remote MCP results per call",
          "3 shared seats"
        ],
        "promo_note": "2 months+ free",
        "price_promo": null,
        "price_annual": "$390/year ($32.50/mo billed yearly)"
      },
      {
        "name": "Agency",
        "price": "$149/mo",
        "period": "month",
        "persona": "team_sme",
        "highlights": [
          "50 watches",
          "White-label client reports",
          "10 seats"
        ],
        "promo_note": null,
        "price_promo": null,
        "price_annual": null
      }
    ],
    "source": "render+llm"
  },
  "trust_or_rating_signal": [],
  "evidence_quality": "medium",
  "entity_type": "infrastructure",
  "regulated_data_suitability": "unclear",
  "evidence_urls": [
    "https://askhound.vercel.app"
  ],
  "last_checked": "2026-10-18",
  "how_to_connect": {
    "website": "https://askhound.vercel.app",
    "docs": null,
    "mcp": null,
    "a2a": null,
    "api": null,
    "protocols": [
      "MCP"
    ],
    "install": null,
    "repository": null,
    "note": "Speaks MCP but publishes no endpoint we could verify — check the docs/website."
  },
  "deployment": {
    "model": "unknown",
    "both_offered": false,
    "hosted_endpoint": null,
    "install": null,
    "note": "No deployment evidence held — Agentery has no endpoint, install instruction or directory attribute for this listing.",
    "evidence": null
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": null,
    "note": "No named licence found in the retained page text or source attributes. A public repository alone does not establish an open-source licence.",
    "evidence": null
  },
  "evidence_checks": {
    "price": {
      "source_url": "https://askhound.haullabs.dev/api/go",
      "last_observed_day": "2026-10-19",
      "age_days": 0,
      "verified_day": "2026-10-19",
      "note": "verified = the page-text gate ran for that scan day (day-before/day-of text check)"
    },
    "agent_card": {
      "status": "unknown",
      "note": "no Agent Card URL recorded for this listing"
    },
    "endpoint": {
      "status": "unknown",
      "note": "endpoint not yet checked"
    }
  },
  "price_applies_to": "price observed on askhound.haullabs.dev, not on this listing's site (askhound.vercel.app) — likely the vendor platform, not this connector",
  "product_group": null,
  "liveness": {
    "probed": true,
    "alive": true,
    "endpoint_kind": "site",
    "latency_ms": 258,
    "uptime_7d": null,
    "checked_at": "2026-10-19T02:32:16.631Z",
    "consecutive_failures": 0,
    "status": "alive"
  },
  "price_extras": {
    "free_tier": null,
    "unit_cost": null
  },
  "reported_success": null,
  "feedback": "If you actually use this provider, call report_outcome with the result. Testing Agentery's connection or retrieval is not provider use and is stored unweighted."
}