Early accessMethodology and figures are provisional and may change. The example record shown uses RecommendedByAI's own measured data.
Vol. 2026 · Edition I
Pricing

What you pay for — and what you can't buy.

Pricing is provisional and in validation — not an offer. Everything follows one rule: the badge is free when you earn it, and can never be bought.

The badge is earned, not bought.

No plan, add-on, contract, or trial changes eligibility (criteria C1–C7). Eligibility is computed by a pipeline that never sees payment status. You pay for the cadence of measurement and the display of a record — never for the status itself, and never for a more favourable outcome. What the record says about a brand, and how a lapsed status is shown, is identical on every plan, paid or free.

01 The shape

Free to earn. Paid to keep current.

Measurement runs by category. Every brand measured enters the public record, and every brand that meets the criteria gets its badge served free on its store — no account wall, no card. You pay only when you want the badge kept current between category rounds, plus analytics, history and alerts.

Run a free category check →

02 The unit

Everything is priced per claim.

A claim is (brand or model) × intent × market — for example “Model X · office/dressy · US”. We never bill per product or per SKU: there is no AI-recommendation signal at SKU level, so billing by catalogue size would be billing a fiction. A new market is a full re-measurement, not a translation.

Plans below are sized in claims and markets.

03 Plans

Provisional — in validation.

FreeMaintainedMultiPortfolio
Price€0€39/mo€99/mo€249/mo
Claims115Category portfolio
Markets1124
Public record + evidence page
Badge served (when Verified)
Automatic expiry
Revalidationwhen your category round re-runs (~6 mo)monthly — badge stays currentmonthlymonthly
Badge analyticsbasic
Historybasic
Status-change alerts
Own verification endpoint
Priority inclusion in rounds

Annual: two months free. Billed through Shopify. All amounts are provisional, frozen for the MVP, and revised only against real usage data — they are a hypothesis we are testing, not a published offer.

Add-on — Standing (+€19/mo)

On any paid plan, show your claim’s position within the public category × intent table, right on your product page. The comparison set is fixed by RecommendedByAI by a pre-registered rule — never chosen to order — and what you display always links to the full, unedited table. It inherits your plan’s scope; no new billing unit. Not available on Free.

04 For a whole category

Commissioned Round — €4,000–8,000.

A brand can fund the measurement of its entire category. The round is published in full and in public; the commissioning brand is measured on the same terms as every other, has no veto over the result, and the commission is disclosed on the record.

It buys coverage, not a verdict. Published price, request form, no mandatory sales call.

Request a category round →

05 How the badge lapses

Your badge doesn’t switch off. It shows its date.

“Verified as of August 2026” is a dated fact that never stops being true. So a badge never flips to a negative state on your store:

  • 0–90 days — shown as Verified · current.
  • After 90 days without a fresh round — it keeps showing, now dated (“as of <month>”), and the date ages in view of your customers.
  • Maintained re-measures monthly, so a paid badge effectively never leaves the current window.

We never render a negative badge on your page. If evidence lapses or a later round contradicts a claim, the embed simply shows nothing — and your record page never disappears: the registry keeps the full, dated history, with reasons. The registry has memory; the mark has currency.

06 Billing

No card, ever. One click through Shopify.

  • No card at install. You install, get your eligibility verdict, and if you qualify the badge is served free. We never ask for a card before the verdict.
  • No card to subscribe either. When you choose to keep the badge current, it’s a single approval on Shopify’s own screen — billed to the payment method already on your Shopify account. We never see or handle card details.
  • 14-day trial starts at that approval — placed at the moment your free badge is about to start showing a date, the first point where keeping it current is legible. After the trial, Shopify bills automatically each cycle.
  • Annual billing saves two months. Renewal is disclosed in advance and cancellation is simple, through Shopify.
07 Coming

Institutional data — register interest.

We are building the historical registry of what AI recommends across brand × intent × market × engine × time — a record that doesn’t exist in structured form anywhere today. Individual records are, and stay, public and free to read.

We are not announcing a product, tiers, or prices yet — announcing capacity we don’t have would be exactly the kind of over-claim this record can’t afford. If you would need access to the data, tell us what for and we’ll get in touch as it takes shape.

Register data interest →

08 Questions

The ones that matter.

Can I buy the badge?

No. It is earned through evidence. Payment covers measurement cadence, display and upkeep only, and can never change eligibility.

What if I lose the signal?

The badge on your store shows its date and ages, then simply stops rendering — we never put a negative badge on your page. Your public record stays, with the dated history and the reason. If a later round restores eligibility, the badge re-lights itself.

Will you tell me how to rank better?

No. We measure and verify; we do not optimise. Advising a brand on how to improve a position we then certify is a conflict we won’t take, at any price. We publish aggregate category research, never per-merchant consultancy.

Do you promise more sales?

No. We report recommendation frequency and badge engagement (impressions, clicks). We never promise uplift we can’t attribute.

Are you affiliated with the AI providers?

No. We independently measure their public outputs and are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of them.

The check is free. The badge is earned.

Free category check Earned, not bought.