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        "billing": "not_found",
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          "summary": "From $5/mo. INK offers a $5/month Hobby plan and a $20/month Pro plan with included monthly usage credits, plus metered compute, storage, and bandwidth charges."
        },
        "observed": true
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "instapods",
        "name": "Instapods",
        "price": {
          "observed": true,
          "billing": "subscription",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": 3,
          "monthly_usd": 3,
          "headline": "From $3/mo",
          "summary": "From $3/mo. InstaPods offers five flat-rate monthly hosting plans ranging from $3/mo to $49/mo, with no per-request charges or bandwidth overages."
        },
        "observed": true
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "redu",
        "name": "redu",
        "price": {
          "observed": true,
          "billing": "usage",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": 11.44,
          "monthly_usd": 15.4,
          "headline": "From $11.44/mo",
          "summary": "From $11.44/mo. Compute instances start at £8.50 per month, with hourly billing and separate usage-based pricing for storage, backups, bandwidth, and additional networks."
        },
        "observed": true
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "synlake",
        "name": "synlake",
        "price": {
          "observed": true,
          "billing": "freemium",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
          "monthly_usd": null,
          "headline": "Free tier + paid plans (price not published)",
          "summary": "Synlake offers a permanent free tier with 100 API calls per month and usage-based pricing starting at $0.01 per API call."
        },
        "observed": true
      }
    ],
    "suggested_next_calls": [
      {
        "tool": "price_benchmark",
        "arguments": {
          "niche": "infrastructure-provisioning-iac"
        },
        "purpose": "full observed price distribution + per-tier medians for this niche"
      },
      {
        "tool": "niche_report",
        "arguments": {
          "niche": "infrastructure-provisioning-iac",
          "response_mode": "full"
        },
        "purpose": "the complete report incl. index series and tier decomposition"
      },
      {
        "tool": "suggest_alternatives",
        "arguments": {
          "agent_id": "butterbase"
        },
        "purpose": "comparable (optionally cheaper) providers to a named agent"
      },
      {
        "tool": "get_agent_profile",
        "arguments": {
          "agent_id": "butterbase"
        },
        "purpose": "full profile, integrations and pricing for one provider"
      }
    ]
  }
}