How we check a price
An agent opens the store's public product page, as a shopper would, and reads the price, the stock and the shipping the page shows. A matcher confirms it is the same product and says how sure it is.
Every price keeps its page address and the minute it was read, so you can open the page and see for yourself.
How often
Watched stores are checked every morning. Every price shows when it was checked, so you always know how fresh it is.
What a receipt holds
The store, the page address, the price and currency, the stock, the minute it was checked and a saved copy of what we read. Receipts in answers to AI agents are signed, so anyone can check one was not changed.
If a price is wrong, report it from its receipt. If we got it wrong, the credits come back.
See the open receipt formatOur crawler's name and pace
Our checker is called AgorantisBot. Every request it sends says so and is signed with Web Bot Auth, so a site can check it really comes from us:
AgorantisBot/1.0 (+https://agorantis.com/bot)It opens at most 6 pages of one site at a time, each at least a quarter second apart, and goes slower when the site's robots.txt sets a Crawl-delay. When a site says it is busy, it waits as long as the site asks.
Where a site turns away automated visitors, we may read the same public pages through a data provider whose requests do not carry our name. Your robots.txt rules and our opt-out list apply to those reads too.
robots.txt, respected
We read robots.txt to the official standard, RFC 9309, for the name AgorantisBot or for all robots, and read it again at least once a day. We skip pages marked noindex and never follow hidden or nofollow links.
Pages a store asks robots not to read stay unread, and the screen tells you which ones.
Logged-out public pages only
We read only what any shopper sees without logging in: product and category pages, sitemaps and robots.txt. Never accounts, carts, checkouts, reviews or personal data.
We never log in to a store and never use anyone's account. If a price sits behind a login, we leave it out.
The opt-out for shops
A shop that does not want to be read adds these two lines to its robots.txt, and we stop within 24 hours:
User-agent: AgorantisBot
Disallow: /Or write to support@agorantis.com with your domain. We add it to our opt-out list and stop reading every page on it.
When a seller asks us not to read their site, we stop. Answers then say so, instead of guessing a price.
The neutrality rules
Every list of sellers, on every screen and in every answer to an AI agent, is ordered by price only.
No seller can pay to appear, to rank higher or to be left out. There is no featured or sponsored seller.
We work for whoever is asking, never for the seller being asked about. That is the whole business, so we protect it in the product itself.
Open numbers
How much of the market we can read and how often we read prices right, each number with the date it was measured and how.
See the open numbersStatus
Whether the site, saved data, price checks, email and payments are working right now.
See the statusPrivacy
Your prices, costs and lists are never shared with anyone.
Cookies are for sign-in and security only, and your data is never sold.
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Read the privacy pageAccounts and payments
There is no password to steal: you sign in with a code sent to your email, or with a sign-in you already trust.
Card numbers go straight to Stripe and never touch Agorantis. Plans are billed in US dollars, and you can cancel any time.
Each agent key can have a monthly spending cap, and you can revoke a key at any time.