Changelog

What's new in Agentery — the AI agent & MCP pricing-intelligence engine. Shipped continuously.

30 Aug 2026

One neighbourhood, one number: price trends unified across the site

A reader-style contradiction — a listing showing +12.5% on the edges map but −6.5% on its own market page — exposed that we had two different "markets around a listing": its calibrated substitute neighbourhood, and its broader local market measured by a median. Both were honest; presenting both as 'the market around X' was not.
Fixed structurally: every per-listing price trend anywhere on Agentery is now the same number — a chained, like-for-like index over that listing's accepted commercial substitutes (its own price excluded), with the driving repricing named (e.g. "driven by Zebracat $19→$39"). The median-of-members momentum figure is retired from display; market medians remain as cost levels, which is what they are good at.
Competitive density is now computed on that same substitute set — distinct competing vendors, ranked as a percentile — so the crowdedness axis and the price axis of every chart finally describe the same neighbourhood.
Listings without a public price of their own now get a neighbourhood trend too (their price was never part of the index). Coverage roughly doubled to ~9,900 computed neighbourhoods.
A permanent regression test now asserts that the edges map, the YC page and each listing's market page render identical trend, pair count, vendor count and driver for the same listing.

29 Aug 2026

Y Combinator coverage page, and neighbourhood membership goes cap-free

New: agentery.com/yc — every YC-backed AI-agent company we track (135, batches 2016–2026), folded into the live market graph: which are listed with public pricing, how their competitive neighbourhoods are repricing over 30 days, and how crowded each neighbourhood is. The full cohort is available as JSON at /api/yc. YC status here is provenance on normal listings, not a separate dataset.
Neighbourhood Price Index membership is now threshold-based: a listing's neighbourhood is ALL of its accepted commercial substitutes above the calibrated similarity boundary, with no arbitrary rank cap (previously the closest 30). About a quarter of listings had genuinely larger neighbourhoods than the cap allowed; their indices now average over more like-for-like pairs, which makes extreme readings rarer and better-evidenced. Pair counts remain visible everywhere.
Fixed a duplicate-detection bug in listing intake: a domain could be wrongly matched against any longer domain containing it as text (daily.co vs awardflightdaily.com). Intake now requires exact registered-domain equality.

29 Aug 2026

Index history cleaned of pricing-page scraping artefacts

A reader-flagged anomaly led us to a class of false price changes: pricing pages with billing toggles or currency switches were sometimes scraped in different states, producing phantom back-and-forth "repricings" (e.g. a plan flipping between its monthly and annual-billing price for weeks).
We removed this class from index history: 641 artefact snapshots across 61 providers were flagged and excluded (the underlying data is preserved and the operation is reversible). Over the last 30 days the headline index moved from +0.16% to +0.14% and the enterprise tier from +0.64% to +0.41% — the enterprise story stands, at a more accurate magnitude. The 25 Aug research article carries a revision note.
The same detector now runs in the nightly quality gate, so this artefact class is caught the day it appears — and genuine price changes are never delayed by the check.

28 Aug 2026

Daily market commentary is live on the blog

Every morning, about an hour after the daily price scan lands, a short market commentary is now published automatically at /blog — what repriced, the day's most interesting move charted against its closest market neighbours, 30-day context, and price rises happening in low-competition areas worth watching.

28 Aug 2026

We stress-tested the market engine — and changed nothing

The engine that decides which AI products compete was put through a systematic evaluation: three embedding models, four text-composition templates, and two independent judge models, all measured against nearly 2,000 labelled product pairs.
Every challenger lost or tied under pre-registered rules, so production stays exactly as it is — now validated at 97.4% discrimination accuracy on labelled ground truth. The engine's strength turns out to be its two-profile design (what job a product does + what it can actually do), which is worth about ten times more than the choice of embedding vendor.
Full write-up on the blog: /blog/inside-the-market-engine. Blog articles now have share buttons.

26 Aug 2026

Pricing coverage self-heal: missed public pricing found and fixed

A buyer pointed out that 11x (Alice, Julian) had public pricing we showed as unavailable — their prices live on per-product pages our scanner couldn't see. All seven 11x plans are now listed.
We then measured how widespread this was: of ~3,600 listings marked 'no public price' on their own domains, about 90 turned out to have real pricing pages. 56 of those now show live prices, and the rest are correctly labelled (contact-sales or genuinely unpriced).
A weekly automated check now finds pricing pages our scanner misses, verifies each one actually belongs to that product before accepting it, and keeps them refreshed daily.

25 Aug 2026

First AEPI research article published

New on the site: “Enterprise AI agent prices are quietly climbing — and nobody else's are” — a 31-day like-for-like study showing enterprise-tier prices rising nine times faster than Pro plans. Read it at /blog/enterprise-agent-prices.

24 Aug 2026

Market pages: compact and mobile-first

Pricing now renders as adaptive tier tiles — one row for one tier, side-by-side for two, a single compact row for three, a 2×2 grid for four. Summaries up front (e.g. “Pro · 3 plans · $20–$100/mo”), full plan detail one tap away.
The comparison answer sits above the fold: tight header, Visit/Pricing buttons on one row, pricing summary, tier selector, then the like-for-like comparison.
Market intelligence condensed to two cards — Market density (percentile + strong substitutes) and Price momentum — replacing the taller stat tiles.
Per-type median cards are half the size, two per row, and empty ones no longer render.
Fixed: searching for a product by its name now always finds it. Our search understands what products do, which is great for questions like “invoice processing” — but it meant typing an exact product name could come up empty even when we had the product listed. Name searches now check names, web addresses and product pages directly, on both the website and the MCP connection.
We replayed every past search that wrongly returned nothing — almost all of them now find the right product — and that check now runs automatically every week so this can't quietly come back.
Fixed one listing that was showing another company's name, and audited the whole catalogue for the same problem. A small number of suspect listings were found and are being reviewed by hand.

23 Aug 2026

Clearer market pages: honest tiers, one median language, visible one-time plans

The two “medians” on market pages are now clearly different things: “Median entry price” (stable, across all priced members) vs “Pro-plan median” etc. (follows the tier selector). Same numbers, unambiguous labels.
The tier selector now defaults to the product's own tier, and tiers where the product has no monthly plan carry a subtle marker — they describe the market, not the product.
A product's own displayed price no longer re-labels itself as you explore tiers — it stays pinned (e.g. “$20/mo · only monthly plan”).
One-time packs, usage pricing and custom quotes now appear in the product list (e.g. “$12 one-time · Individual”) instead of reading as “no plan”. They remain excluded from all monthly medians.
Product rows follow the selected tier: plan price at that tier and position vs that tier's median.
One comparison baseline everywhere: the top of a market page now compares a product against its own type's median at the selected tier — the exact same number shown on the benchmark card below. No more two different 'medians' giving opposite verdicts.
Market pages are now full product pages: provider logo, description, Visit website / View pricing buttons, and the product's REAL published plans grouped by tier — including one-time packs, usage pricing and custom quotes, each labelled honestly (shown, but never blended into monthly medians). The plan behind the fixed verdict is marked 'Used for verdict'.
Market comparison is now fully tier-driven: pick a buyer tier and the product's plan, the like-for-like median, the % comparison, spectrum and every product row all follow. Percentages only appear for true like-for-like (same provider type, same tier, monthly-comparable) — missing tiers say 'No [tier] plan', custom quotes and one-time packs say so, and nothing is ever compared across tiers.
Every provider class now gets its own benchmark: platforms compare against platforms, APIs against APIs — not blended into agent/MCP medians. Market pages show a median card per class present, the spectrum colours every class distinctly, and a comparison needs at least two priced peers or it honestly says so.

22 Aug 2026

Faster site, honest market sizes, and a big duplicate cleanup

New on every market page: Market density (unique competing vendors, ranked as a percentile across all Agentery markets) and Price momentum (change in the market's median entry price over the available history window — starting at ~30 days from when our price parser reached full accuracy, widening by a day every day until it stabilises at 90 days). Both use the existing market and pricing methodology; nothing else changed.
Fended off an aggressive AI-training crawler that was fetching over 1,000 pages a minute and slowing the site for everyone. Heavy crawlers are now rate-limited; normal visitors and search engines are unaffected.
Market pages redesigned: one clear overview (what the market is, where the product sits vs the market median), buyer-tier selector, and Agent vs MCP benchmark cards — then the price spectrum and products.
The price spectrum now re-plots per buyer tier: pick Individual/Pro/SME/Enterprise and the dots become the providers with a plan at that tier, at that tier's price — no more tier statistics drawn over unrelated dots.
Market pages now state the TRUE market size — unique vendors and strong substitutes found by capability — instead of a capped list count that made every market look the same size.
Products in a market are grouped by type (Agents, MCP servers, APIs, Platforms) with the most relevant group first, using the same visual language as search.
Search results are now grouped in colour-coded containers — Paid services, Free services, and No public pricing — with slimmer filters.
Removed 57 duplicate listings (the same product listed more than once) and switched on automated duplicate detection: a sensitive weekly scan whose proposed merges must pass a confirmation review before anything is hidden. Nothing is deleted and price data is untouched.

21 Aug 2026

Never a dead end — missing products get researched and listed

Ask for a product we do not have (search or MCP) and it is queued for automated research — real products are verified, screened and listed within ~15 minutes (Apollo.io and Clipto were both added this way today).
New Add listing button in search when a name has no exact match.
MCP tools now say when a name has been queued for research instead of a bare not-found error.
Footer links to the registries carrying our MCP: Smithery, Glama and MCP.so.
Consistent typography and mascot across every page (one font system site-wide).

20 Aug 2026

MCP-first homepage + browse past repricings

Homepage sharpened: Pricing intelligence for agents + MCPs — search, tier comparison, and a Connect Agentery MCP path front and centre.
AEPI section now shows the live listing count, when prices were last updated and when the next scan lands.
Repricings panel gained a day browser — step back through past scan days, with the viewed day marked on the charts.
Docs rebuilt around the current tool set (provider-neutral names, market language) with accurate quickstart examples.

19 Aug 2026

Semantic markets — every listing is its own market

Every listing now has a live market page: its closest competitors by what they actually do, separate Agent vs MCP medians, a price spectrum and buyer-tier breakdowns.
Homepage rebuilt around one search box — type a product or a capability and land in its market.
Provider pages show each product’s position in its own local market.
Fixed category directories retired from navigation in favour of semantic search.

2 Aug 2026

Smarter search + clearer pricing on every niche

Search now treats "free" and "cheap" as price intent, not keywords — a query like "free web-search MCP" returns the market with free / free-tier providers surfaced first, instead of no results.
Niche pages read "free" and "free tier" from the actual pricing classification, so genuinely-free providers are no longer mislabelled as paid or unknown.
The providers table now shows only actionable listings — a published price or a free plan — and each price state is self-explanatory.
The price-distribution chart gained buyer-tier tabs (All / Individual / Pro / Team / Enterprise); pick a tier to compare like-for-like, with the tier median as the line.

1 Aug 2026

Agents and MCP servers, never blended

Agents and MCP servers are priced as two separate markets across the site — niche pages and the homepage example now split the two rather than showing one misleading combined figure.
MCP tools renamed to provider-neutral names (search_providers, get_provider, compare_providers, …). Old agent-named tools keep working as aliases, so nothing breaks.
Rebuilt discovery on free, structured sources — the official MCP registry, PyPI, Glama and the A2A agent registry — after retiring a paid search dependency.

31 Jul 2026

Agent vs MCP price index + Smithery support

The Agentery Economy Price Index (/aepi) and the homepage gained an All / Agents / MCPs scope toggle, each on its own base.
Published a commercial-form pricing classification so the index reflects genuinely commercial listings.
Improved Smithery compatibility: richer server metadata, discovery fixes, and a verified listing link.

30 Jul 2026

Custom benchmarks + broader coverage

Custom Benchmarks (private peer cohorts) — early access: define a cohort and get a reproducible pricing benchmark over MCP.
Began ingesting the A2A agent registry, adding agent-native listings alongside MCP servers.
Honest usage attribution — traffic arriving via Smithery's proxy is labelled as such rather than counted as direct.

23 Jul 2026

Repositioned as a pricing-intelligence engine

Reframed the site and docs around what it's actually for: knowing the going rate and comparing plans and providers for AI agents and MCP servers.
Added a one-click "query this niche over MCP" action on niche pages.
SEO / indexability and first-party analytics so real search demand is measured honestly.

21 Jul 2026

Trustworthy pricing, per buyer tier

Rebuilt the pricing engine to produce corrected per-tier cohorts — currency-normalised, unit-matched, de-duplicated per provider, and honest about small samples (it abstains rather than inventing a range).
Launched the public price index page (/aepi) with day / week / month views and a move-verification bar, so only real repricings show as movements.
New find_niche MCP tool: turn a natural-language task into the canonical market, then its live pricing.

19 Jul 2026

New public site

Redesigned niche pages, provider pages and homepage — cleaner, mobile-first, and built directly on the live data.
A response-quality pass across the MCP tools: clean names, deterministic ordering, and concise summaries by default.