News Monitoring Agent

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      "short_summary": "Search and analyze global news coverage and US TV transcripts via the GDELT Project APIs.",
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        "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."
      },
      "evidence_quality": "medium",
      "upvotes": 0
    },
    {
      "agent_id": "hankookilbo_mcp",
      "name": "Hankookilbo",
      "url": "https://www.hankookilbo.com",
      "short_summary": "Metadata-focused MCP server for Hankookilbo (한국일보), a major South Korean daily newspaper. Returns public homepage data: article titles, publication dates, sect…",
      "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."
      },
      "evidence_quality": "medium",
      "upvotes": 0
    }
  ],
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    "sector": "research-knowledge-work",
    "pricing_by_provider_type": {
      "headline": "Prices differ by provider type and buyer tier — no blended headline is used. Strongest cohort: MCP servers · Individual median $23/mo (3 providers). See benchmarks_by_provider_type_and_tier for the full matrix.",
      "benchmarks": [
        {
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          "provider_type_label": "MCP servers",
          "buyer_tier": "individual",
          "buyer_tier_label": "Individual",
          "pricing_unit": "flat",
          "pricing_unit_label": "flat monthly",
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          "p25": null,
          "p75": null,
          "status": "median_only"
        },
        {
          "provider_type": "mcp",
          "provider_type_label": "MCP servers",
          "buyer_tier": "pro",
          "buyer_tier_label": "Pro",
          "pricing_unit": "flat",
          "pricing_unit_label": "flat monthly",
          "comparable_provider_count": 2,
          "reliability": "low",
          "median": null,
          "p25": null,
          "p75": null,
          "status": "observed_offers_only",
          "observed_offers": [
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            34.14
          ]
        }
      ],
      "warnings": [
        "This niche currently has sufficient MCP pricing but insufficient agent pricing."
      ],
      "full_pricing_via": {
        "tool": "price_benchmark",
        "arguments": {
          "niche": "news-monitoring-agent"
        },
        "note": "add provider_type + buyer_tier for a specific cohort"
      }
    },
    "page_url": "https://agentery.com/market/news-monitoring-agent",
    "counts": {
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      "listings_with_observed_public_price": 5,
      "providers_with_numeric_monthly_price_latest_scan": 4,
      "like_for_like_comparable_pairs": 3
    },
    "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": "individual",
        "currency": "USD",
        "period": "month",
        "unit": "flat",
        "median": 22.74,
        "provider_count": 3,
        "plan_observation_count": 4,
        "data_confidence": 0.24,
        "data_confidence_basis": {
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          "observation_component": 0.2,
          "provider_count": 3,
          "plan_observation_count": 4
        },
        "reliability": "low",
        "members": [
          {
            "provider": "storyflo",
            "usd": 4.99
          },
          {
            "provider": "global_ai_news",
            "usd": 22.74
          },
          {
            "provider": "marketflux_mcp",
            "usd": 35
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "tier": "pro",
        "currency": "USD",
        "period": "month",
        "unit": "flat",
        "median": 31.57,
        "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": "newsflash",
            "usd": 29
          },
          {
            "provider": "global_ai_news",
            "usd": 34.14
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "pricing_coverage": {
      "listings_with_price_capture": 33,
      "listings_with_observed_public_price": 5,
      "normalized_observations": 7,
      "comparable_providers": 4,
      "strict_cohorts": 2,
      "exclusion_reasons": {
        "unrankable_or_unparseable": 1,
        "ambiguous_cadence": 2
      }
    },
    "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": {
      "unrankable_or_unparseable": 1,
      "ambiguous_cadence": 2
    },
    "billing_mix": {
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      "freemium": 3,
      "subscription": 1
    },
    "free_tier_share": 0.8,
    "top_providers": [
      {
        "agent_id": "global_ai_news",
        "name": "global-ai-news",
        "price": {
          "observed": true,
          "billing": "subscription",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": 23,
          "monthly_usd": 26.52,
          "headline": "From $23/mo",
          "summary": "From $23/mo. BrunoSan offers a €19.95-per-month single-domain plan, a €199-per-month full-intelligence plan, a €29.95-per-month LENS add-on, and custom enterprise pricing after a no-card trial."
        },
        "observed": true
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "gloria",
        "name": "Gloria",
        "price": {
          "observed": false,
          "billing": "unknown",
          "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": "marketflux_mcp",
        "name": "marketflux-mcp",
        "price": {
          "observed": true,
          "billing": "freemium",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": 20,
          "monthly_usd": 20,
          "headline": "Free tier, then from $20/mo",
          "summary": "Free tier, then from $20/mo. MarketFlux offers a free Explore plan, Essential at $240/year or $192/year on the yearly plan, Elite at $600/year or $480/year on the yearly plan, and custom pricing."
        },
        "observed": true
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "outtolunch",
        "name": "outtolunch",
        "price": {
          "observed": false,
          "billing": "not_found",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
          "monthly_usd": null,
          "headline": "No public price found",
          "summary": "No public pricing for Out to Lunch was reliably observed in the supplied homepage content."
        },
        "observed": false
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "trendradar",
        "name": "Trendradar",
        "price": {
          "observed": false,
          "billing": "not_found",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
          "monthly_usd": null,
          "headline": "No public price found",
          "summary": "TrendRadar is presented as a non-commercial open-source project, but no product pricing or subscription plans are publicly listed."
        },
        "observed": false
      }
    ],
    "suggested_next_calls": [
      {
        "tool": "price_benchmark",
        "arguments": {
          "niche": "news-monitoring-agent"
        },
        "purpose": "full observed price distribution + per-tier medians for this niche"
      },
      {
        "tool": "niche_report",
        "arguments": {
          "niche": "news-monitoring-agent",
          "response_mode": "full"
        },
        "purpose": "the complete report incl. index series and tier decomposition"
      },
      {
        "tool": "suggest_alternatives",
        "arguments": {
          "agent_id": "global_ai_news"
        },
        "purpose": "comparable (optionally cheaper) providers to a named agent"
      },
      {
        "tool": "get_agent_profile",
        "arguments": {
          "agent_id": "global_ai_news"
        },
        "purpose": "full profile, integrations and pricing for one provider"
      }
    ]
  }
}