AI Cooking Assistant

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        "summary": "Free tier, then from $10/mo. Smithery offers a free Hobby plan, a $10/month Pay as you go plan with usage credits, and custom enterprise pricing."
      },
      "evidence_quality": "low",
      "upvotes": 0
    },
    {
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      "name": "vectoralix-healthy-food-mcp",
      "url": "https://vectoralix.com/mcp-servers/healthy-food.",
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        "observed": true,
        "billing": "freemium",
        "lowest_monthly_usd": 4.49,
        "monthly_usd": 4.49,
        "headline": "Free tier, then from $4.49/mo",
        "summary": "Free tier, then from $4.49/mo. Vectoralix offers a free plan and paid monthly Starter, Pro, and Ultra plans priced from $4.49 to $49.99 per month."
      },
      "evidence_quality": "low",
      "upvotes": 0
    },
    {
      "agent_id": "fridgesnap_ai",
      "name": "Fridgesnap Ai",
      "url": "https://eat.fridgesnapai.recipes/",
      "short_summary": "AI agent that analyzes photos of your fridge contents and generates chef-crafted recipes with AI-generated food photography. Helps reduce food waste by suggest…",
      "price": {
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        "monthly_usd": 8.25,
        "headline": "Free tier, then from $8.25/mo",
        "summary": "Free tier, then from $8.25/mo. FridgeSnap offers a freemium model with a 7-day free trial, then $9.99/month, $99/year, or $499 lifetime access."
      },
      "evidence_quality": "unclear",
      "upvotes": 0
    }
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    "sector": "consumer-personal",
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      "benchmarks": [
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          "provider_type_label": "MCP servers",
          "buyer_tier": "individual",
          "buyer_tier_label": "Individual",
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          "p75": null,
          "status": "median_only"
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          "buyer_tier_label": "Pro",
          "pricing_unit": "flat",
          "pricing_unit_label": "flat monthly",
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          "p25": null,
          "p75": null,
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            32.49,
            39.99
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        }
      ],
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        "This niche currently has sufficient MCP pricing but insufficient agent pricing."
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        "arguments": {
          "niche": "ai-cooking-assistant"
        },
        "note": "add provider_type + buyer_tier for a specific cohort"
      }
    },
    "page_url": "https://agentery.com/market/ai-cooking-assistant",
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      "listings_with_observed_public_price": 4,
      "providers_with_numeric_monthly_price_latest_scan": 4,
      "like_for_like_comparable_pairs": 4
    },
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        "published": false,
        "value_pct": null,
        "held_reason": null
      },
      "w": {
        "published": false,
        "value_pct": null,
        "held_reason": null
      },
      "m": {
        "published": false,
        "value_pct": null,
        "held_reason": null
      }
    },
    "pricing_version": "cohorts-1",
    "pricing_status": "ok",
    "pricing_by_tier": [
      {
        "tier": "individual",
        "currency": "USD",
        "period": "month",
        "unit": "flat",
        "median": 9.06,
        "provider_count": 4,
        "plan_observation_count": 6,
        "data_confidence": 0.33,
        "data_confidence_basis": {
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          "observation_component": 0.3,
          "provider_count": 4,
          "plan_observation_count": 6
        },
        "reliability": "low",
        "members": [
          {
            "provider": "vectoralix_healthy_food_mcp",
            "usd": 4.49
          },
          {
            "provider": "savor_dish",
            "usd": 8.99
          },
          {
            "provider": "fridgesnap_ai",
            "usd": 9.12
          },
          {
            "provider": "panko_food_safety",
            "usd": 10
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "tier": "pro",
        "currency": "USD",
        "period": "month",
        "unit": "flat",
        "median": 36.24,
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        "plan_observation_count": 5,
        "data_confidence": 0.18,
        "data_confidence_basis": {
          "provider_component": 0.17,
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          "provider_count": 2,
          "plan_observation_count": 5
        },
        "reliability": "low",
        "members": [
          {
            "provider": "vectoralix_healthy_food_mcp",
            "usd": 32.49
          },
          {
            "provider": "savor_dish",
            "usd": 39.99
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
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      "listings_with_observed_public_price": 4,
      "normalized_observations": 11,
      "comparable_providers": 4,
      "strict_cohorts": 2,
      "exclusion_reasons": {
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        "one_time": 1,
        "free_or_zero": 1,
        "usage_not_monthly": 1,
        "ambiguous_cadence": 1
      }
    },
    "pricing_note": "Provider-deduped, FX-normalized monthly medians, separated by buyer tier AND billing unit (flat/per_seat/per_user/per_agent) — incompatible units are never blended. Ranges (p25/p75) only at >=5 providers; data_confidence is provider-count-weighted. Usage-metered, promo, range, one-time and ambiguous-cadence plans are excluded.",
    "pricing_excluded_observations": {
      "promo": 1,
      "one_time": 1,
      "free_or_zero": 1,
      "usage_not_monthly": 1,
      "ambiguous_cadence": 1
    },
    "billing_mix": {
      "freemium": 4
    },
    "free_tier_share": 1,
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        "agent_id": "savor_dish",
        "name": "SAVORDISH",
        "price": {
          "observed": true,
          "billing": "freemium",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": 2.99,
          "monthly_usd": 2.99,
          "headline": "Free tier, then from $2.99/mo",
          "summary": "Free tier, then from $2.99/mo. Savor offers a permanent free plan, five paid monthly plans from $7.99/mo to $49.99/mo, and one-time AI credit packs from $2.99 to $49.99."
        },
        "observed": true
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "food_recipe_mcp",
        "name": "Food-Recipe-MCP",
        "price": {
          "observed": false,
          "billing": "not_found",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
          "monthly_usd": null,
          "headline": "No public price found",
          "summary": "No public pricing is shown for the recipe search or MCP service."
        },
        "observed": false
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "sous_chef_ai",
        "name": "Sous Chef AI cooking assistant",
        "price": {
          "observed": false,
          "billing": "not_found",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
          "monthly_usd": null,
          "headline": "No public price found",
          "summary": "No public pricing is shown for Sous-Chef on the available homepage content."
        },
        "observed": false
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "panko_food_safety",
        "name": "Panko Alerts",
        "price": {
          "observed": true,
          "billing": "freemium",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": 10,
          "monthly_usd": 10,
          "headline": "Free tier, then from $10/mo",
          "summary": "Free tier, then from $10/mo. Smithery offers a free Hobby plan, a $10/month Pay as you go plan with usage credits, and custom enterprise pricing."
        },
        "observed": true
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "vectoralix_healthy_food_mcp",
        "name": "vectoralix-healthy-food-mcp",
        "price": {
          "observed": true,
          "billing": "freemium",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": 4.49,
          "monthly_usd": 4.49,
          "headline": "Free tier, then from $4.49/mo",
          "summary": "Free tier, then from $4.49/mo. Vectoralix offers a free plan and paid monthly Starter, Pro, and Ultra plans priced from $4.49 to $49.99 per month."
        },
        "observed": true
      }
    ],
    "suggested_next_calls": [
      {
        "tool": "price_benchmark",
        "arguments": {
          "niche": "ai-cooking-assistant"
        },
        "purpose": "full observed price distribution + per-tier medians for this niche"
      },
      {
        "tool": "niche_report",
        "arguments": {
          "niche": "ai-cooking-assistant",
          "response_mode": "full"
        },
        "purpose": "the complete report incl. index series and tier decomposition"
      },
      {
        "tool": "suggest_alternatives",
        "arguments": {
          "agent_id": "savor_dish"
        },
        "purpose": "comparable (optionally cheaper) providers to a named agent"
      },
      {
        "tool": "get_agent_profile",
        "arguments": {
          "agent_id": "savor_dish"
        },
        "purpose": "full profile, integrations and pricing for one provider"
      }
    ]
  }
}