Pricing
Pricing
MachineRead has three tiers. Essentials is free, anonymous, and available now. Starter and Pro are planned for future release. No prices are listed for the paid tiers because they are not yet available for purchase. The pricing page does not collect email addresses, does not take payment, and does not have a sign-up button.
Essentials
Free
Available now
- 13 check groups, 56 checked points
- 9 locked advanced rows (coverage gaps, not guesses)
- No account required to run an Essentials audit
- 4 agent surfaces served statically
- Benchmark comparison against peer profiles
Starter
Coming soon
Not yet available
- Paid-crawler probes (index coverage, backlinks)
- Custom audit scope configuration
- Weekly monitoring with change detection
- All Essentials check groups included
Pro
Coming soon
Not yet available
- Paid LLM probes (extraction fidelity, citation share)
- Advanced agent-readiness checks (task simulation)
- Multi-site comparison and benchmarking
- All Starter features included
The free Essentials audit is the only tier available today. It covers 13 check groups across 3 pillars (off-site presence, AI access and scrapability, and SEO) with a 56-point checked denominator. The 9 advanced rows are locked, meaning they are reported as zero-scored coverage gaps rather than guessed at. This design choice keeps the free tier honest about what it does not measure. Starter and Pro describe planned coverage, not purchasable services. Their listed features may change before launch. Essentials is free and anonymous today.