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API Design Agent

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      },
      "home_niche": "business-process-automation",
      "also_covers": true,
      "upvotes": 0
    },
    {
      "agent_id": "box_developer",
      "name": "Box Developer Portal",
      "url": "https://developer.box.com/",
      "short_summary": "Provides developer resources, documentation, SDKs, and APIs for building applications and integrations on the Box content management platform, including AI int…",
      "price": {
        "observed": false,
        "billing": "not_found",
        "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
        "monthly_usd": null,
        "headline": "No public price found",
        "summary": "No public pricing details were observed on the supplied Box Developer documentation homepage."
      },
      "home_niche": "developer-portal-api-docs",
      "also_covers": true,
      "upvotes": 0
    },
    {
      "agent_id": "developers_2",
      "name": "Cloudflare",
      "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/",
      "short_summary": "Provides documentation and resources for building applications on the Cloudflare developer platform (compute, AI, storage, security, networking); not itself an…",
      "price": {
        "observed": false,
        "billing": "not_found",
        "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
        "monthly_usd": null,
        "headline": "No public price found",
        "summary": "No public pricing is shown on the supplied Cloudflare developer homepage or documentation page."
      },
      "home_niche": "developer-portal-api-docs",
      "also_covers": true,
      "upvotes": 0
    },
    {
      "agent_id": "intercom_developers",
      "name": "Intercom Developers",
      "url": "https://developers.intercom.com/",
      "short_summary": "provides a developer platform to build apps and custom integrations that extend Intercom's customer service/communication features",
      "price": {
        "observed": true,
        "billing": "free",
        "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
        "monthly_usd": null,
        "headline": "Free",
        "summary": "Intercom for Developers offers a free development workspace for testing and publishing apps, with no paid pricing publicly shown."
      },
      "home_niche": "developer-portal-api-docs",
      "also_covers": true,
      "upvotes": 0
    }
  ],
  "page_url": "https://agentery.com/market/api-design-agent",
  "summary": {
    "niche": "api-design-agent",
    "sector": "developer-tools-infra",
    "pricing_by_provider_type": {
      "headline": "No published benchmark for api-design-agent yet — too few comparable priced providers.",
      "benchmarks": [],
      "warnings": [
        "No priced providers meet the benchmark bar for this scope."
      ],
      "full_pricing_via": {
        "tool": "price_benchmark",
        "arguments": {
          "niche": "api-design-agent"
        },
        "note": "add provider_type + buyer_tier for a specific cohort"
      }
    },
    "page_url": "https://agentery.com/market/api-design-agent",
    "counts": {
      "listings_with_price_capture": 18,
      "listings_with_observed_public_price": 5,
      "providers_with_numeric_monthly_price_latest_scan": null,
      "like_for_like_comparable_pairs": null
    },
    "movement": {
      "d": {
        "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": "enterprise",
        "currency": "USD",
        "period": "month",
        "unit": "flat",
        "median": 1050,
        "provider_count": 2,
        "plan_observation_count": 2,
        "data_confidence": 0.15,
        "data_confidence_basis": {
          "provider_component": 0.17,
          "observation_component": 0.1,
          "provider_count": 2,
          "plan_observation_count": 2
        },
        "reliability": "low",
        "members": [
          {
            "provider": "three_min_api",
            "usd": 100
          },
          {
            "provider": "flapi",
            "usd": 2000
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "pricing_coverage": {
      "listings_with_price_capture": 18,
      "listings_with_observed_public_price": 5,
      "normalized_observations": 4,
      "comparable_providers": 2,
      "strict_cohorts": 1,
      "exclusion_reasons": {
        "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": {
      "ambiguous_cadence": 1
    },
    "billing_mix": {
      "free": 2,
      "freemium": 3
    },
    "free_tier_share": 1,
    "top_providers": [
      {
        "agent_id": "httpstatus",
        "name": "Httpstatus MCP",
        "price": {
          "observed": false,
          "billing": "not_found",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
          "monthly_usd": null,
          "headline": "No public price found",
          "summary": "No public price found on the vendor site."
        },
        "observed": false
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "three_min_api",
        "name": "3Min API",
        "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. 3Min API offers a free plan with 1,000 API calls per month and paid Basic, Pro, and Enterprise plans starting at $10 per month."
        },
        "observed": true
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "grafbase",
        "name": "Grafbase",
        "price": {
          "observed": true,
          "billing": "freemium",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
          "monthly_usd": null,
          "headline": "Free tier + paid plans (price not published)",
          "summary": "Grafbase offers a free open-source plan and an enterprise plan with custom pricing and enhanced support."
        },
        "observed": true
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "schemacheck_agent",
        "name": "Schemacheck Agent",
        "price": {
          "observed": false,
          "billing": "not_found",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
          "monthly_usd": null,
          "headline": "No public price found",
          "summary": "No public price found on the vendor site."
        },
        "observed": false
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "simceptor2",
        "name": "Simceptor2",
        "price": {
          "observed": true,
          "billing": "free",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
          "monthly_usd": null,
          "headline": "Free",
          "summary": "Simceptor offers a free Developer tier forever, while users who register before December 31, 2026 can claim a free Legacy tier with expanded unlimited limits during the beta."
        },
        "observed": true
      }
    ],
    "suggested_next_calls": [
      {
        "tool": "price_benchmark",
        "arguments": {
          "niche": "api-design-agent"
        },
        "purpose": "full observed price distribution + per-tier medians for this niche"
      },
      {
        "tool": "niche_report",
        "arguments": {
          "niche": "api-design-agent",
          "response_mode": "full"
        },
        "purpose": "the complete report incl. index series and tier decomposition"
      },
      {
        "tool": "suggest_alternatives",
        "arguments": {
          "agent_id": "httpstatus"
        },
        "purpose": "comparable (optionally cheaper) providers to a named agent"
      },
      {
        "tool": "get_agent_profile",
        "arguments": {
          "agent_id": "httpstatus"
        },
        "purpose": "full profile, integrations and pricing for one provider"
      }
    ]
  }
}
Full market

5 providers, one sortable view

Dense enough for many listings; progressive disclosure keeps mobile usable.

Showing only providers with a published price or a free plan. $29 = lowest observed monthly · Free = free to use · Free tier = free plan + paid options.