# Compare three software vendors before you buy. Pricing, reviews and what users really say A vendor comparison puts price for your team, must-haves and real user experience side by side. With Agentik, your AI reads pricing pages with Firecrawl, Trustpilot reviews with DataForSEO, Reddit threads through ScrapeCreators and comments from Hacker News. - For: Operations, IT and team leads buying software - Providers: 4 (Firecrawl, DataForSEO, ScrapeCreators and Hacker News), 4 tools - Example (Three vendors, 3 pricing pages, 100 Trustpilot reviews each, 3 Reddit searches, 2 Hacker News searches): at most $0.05, computed from the live catalog - Updated: 2026-10-10 ## Each provider does one part No single provider covers this job. Through Agentik your AI calls each one for its part, from one connection and one prepaid balance. - **Firecrawl** (1 tool, at most $0.0075): Each vendor’s pricing page, as text. - **DataForSEO** (1 tool, at most $0.04): Each vendor’s latest Trustpilot reviews. - **ScrapeCreators** (1 tool, at most $0.0056): Reddit threads comparing or reviewing the vendors. - **Hacker News** (1 tool, free): Hacker News comments that mention them. ## Give this to your agent ```text Use my connected Agentik MCP server for this job: software vendor comparison. Compare three software vendors before I buy. First ask me for the vendors, their domains, my team size and my must-haves. Read their pricing pages with firecrawl/scrape. Read their latest Trustpilot reviews with dataforseo/business-data-trustpilot-reviews. Read what users say on Reddit with scrapecreators/get-v1-reddit-search and in Hacker News comments with hackernews/search. Finish with a side-by-side table (price for my team, must-haves covered, review themes, common complaints) and a recommendation with the questions to ask each vendor. Before running anything, inspect each tool with inspect_tool, ask me for any input you don’t have instead of inventing it, and tell me the total price. Wait for my go. At the end, tell me what Agentik charged. ``` ## You provide - Three vendors and their domains - Your team size - Your must-haves ## What you get: a side-by-side vendor comparison with a pick - Price for your team, side by side - Must-haves covered - Review themes and common complaints - A recommendation and questions to ask ## How to compare software vendors in Claude or ChatGPT Prices are the most each call can reserve for this example: Three vendors, 3 pricing pages, 100 Trustpilot reviews each, 3 Reddit searches, 2 Hacker News searches. ### 1. Read pricing Firecrawl reads each vendor’s pricing page. - [Scrape a web page to markdown](/tools/firecrawl/scrape.md) `firecrawl/scrape` (Firecrawl, 3 pages): at most $0.0075 ### 2. Read reviews DataForSEO reads each vendor’s latest hundred Trustpilot reviews; the results come back in a few minutes, and fetching them is free. - [Trustpilot reviews](/tools/dataforseo/business-data-trustpilot-reviews.md) `dataforseo/business-data-trustpilot-reviews` (DataForSEO, 100 reviews each): at most $0.04 - [Trustpilot reviews](/tools/dataforseo/business-data-trustpilot-reviews.md) `dataforseo/business-data-trustpilot-reviews` (DataForSEO, 3 results): free ### 3. Read what users say ScrapeCreators searches Reddit for comparisons, and Hacker News search finds comments that mention the vendors. - [Reddit search](/tools/scrapecreators/get-v1-reddit-search.md) `scrapecreators/get-v1-reddit-search` (ScrapeCreators, 3 searches): at most $0.0056 - [Hacker News search](/tools/hackernews/search.md) `hackernews/search` (Hacker News, 2 searches): free ### 4. Compare and recommend Your AI writes the price for your team side by side, the must-haves covered, the review themes and a recommendation with questions to ask. Example total: at most $0.05. Each call is billed for measured usage; unused reservations are released. ## Ask it your way - Compare these three project management tools for a team of 25. - What do users complain about with Vendor A? - Which of these vendors covers SSO and audit logs at our size? - What should I ask each vendor before signing? ## Why through Agentik - Pricing pages, reviews, Reddit and Hacker News come from four providers through one connection. - Hacker News is free; the whole comparison costs about five cents. ## Good to know - Pricing pages change often; the table is dated. - Review sites over-represent strong opinions; your AI weighs themes by frequency. ## When to use something else For a formal procurement process with security reviews, use your procurement tools and the vendors’ trust centres. This playbook narrows the choice first. ## Software vendor comparison: questions ### Are the prices up to date? They are read when you run the playbook, and the table is dated. Pricing pages change often. ### Can reviews be trusted? Review sites lean toward strong opinions, so your AI weighs themes by how often they come up. ### What does the example cost? At most $0.05, reserved before each call and settled at the measured usage. ## Keep going - [Market research](/market-research.md): The companies in the space, their pricing pages, Google search demand for the category, and what buyers say on Hacker News and X. - [Dependency health check](/dependency-health.md): Your project’s npm and PyPI dependencies with their latest versions, licences and maintenance signals from GitHub, plus any security incidents in the news. - [Company due diligence](/company-due-diligence.md): Its legal identity and status, its SEC filings when it is US-listed, how long its website has existed, and any lawsuits or liquidation in the news. - [Research tools for your agent](/tools/research.md) - [Scraping tools for your agent](/tools/scraping.md) - [Social tools for your agent](/tools/social.md) [All playbooks](/playbooks.md) · [Connection guides](/docs/clients.md) · [Billing](/docs/billing.md) --- [HTML page](/vendor-comparison) · [Agent index](/llms.txt)