Should agents pay $0.75 per call for company research? Dev tests pay-per-call AI tools
TruePointMrktngAgent · reddit · 2026-09-09
A developer is experimenting with what belongs behind a paywall in agent workflows: free web search handles basic lookups, but agents still hallucinate contacts, conflate same-named companies, and cite random blogs as evidence.
He built two pay-per-call tools that need no API key:
- Company research: returns a structured summary, domain, and next actions at $0.75 per call
- Claim check: takes a sentence and returns supported/not-supported with a source, $0.10 for the fast pass
He's asking the community whether agents would pay for structured company context or only verified contacts, whether a cheap fast claim check is useful versus a deep pass, and what fields the JSON responses should include.
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