How-to · 3 steps
How to research a software vendor
with Monid.
Give this to your agent
$set up https://monid.ai/SKILL.md, then tell me what buyers say about <product> and show the cost of each step
and let it take it from there.
#JobWhat came backCost
1Find the real onea decoy sits beside it$0.02 ✓
2Site one4.3 on 7,084 reviews$0.01 ✓
3Site two4.4 on 4,092 reviews$0.02 ✓
4Site three4.41 on the same 4,092$0.01 ✓
5The company1.8 on 734 reviews$0.03 ✓
6The blocked one500, then 503 twice$0.00 ✓
7The aggregatorthe blocked site's own data$0.0015 ✓
8The wrong aisle80 companies, none of them$0.01 ✓
9The duplicateidentical to one you made$0.01 ✓
10Total21 calls, 14 billed$0.1965 ✓
one product · four sites · three of them agree and two are the same sourceagent running$0.1965
Real run, 2026-09-25. A public product, public ratings.
Step 1
Set up Monid.
One line. It installs the CLI and asks for an API key from app.monid.ai. New accounts start with $1.00.
Say this to your agent
>set up https://monid.ai/SKILL.md
Step 2
Pick what you need. Say it in one sentence.
Click a job. Paste the sentence, fill in the brackets.
Everything about the product, in one call
Say this to your agent
>get the getapp software details for <product> on monid. its slug is <category>/a/<name> and the name half is not derivable, so find it from a capterra search first, then CHECK data.name against the product i asked for before you use anything: a wrong guess can return 200 with a different product from the same vendor. read the whole response before you call anything else
What the agent runsdone
getapp /get_software_details$0.01
getapp /get_software_pricing$0.01
getapp /get_software_reviews$0.01
getapp /get_software_integrations · not run$0.01
capterra /get_product_details$0.01
What came backone help-desk product · 2026-09-25
What one $0.01 call carrieditems in the payload
what arrivesthe rating, the full star breakdown behind 4,092 reviews, five pros and five cons with percentages, four pricing plans, 215 integrations, ten alternatives and the vendor's HQ and founding year
the two you must not callthe dedicated reviews and pricing endpoints are byte-identical slices of this one, verified by string equality, and cost $0.01 each
the 200 that is wrongthe most natural slug guess for one vendor's second product returned 200 with its FIRST product instead, 18,810 reviews where the right answer had 830; only the name field catches it
the half that mattersthe category half of the slug is not validated at all, two different categories returned identical payloads, and the product half is the unguessable one: eleven wrong guesses and $0.05 of paid reconnaissance to find one
the undocumented codethe field that answers who wrote a review returns single letters, D, E, I and A, with no legend in the payload, the description or inspect
$0.01288 KB, one call
The same product on three review sites
Say this to your agent
>get the rating and the review count for <product> from g2, capterra and getapp on monid and put them side by side. check whether any two of them report the identical review count, because two of these sites share an owner
What the agent runsdone
g2 /get_product_overview$0.01
capterra /get_product_details$0.01
getapp /get_software_details$0.01
g2 /search_software$0.02
capterra /search_software$0.01
What came backone help-desk product · 2026-09-25
Reviews behind the rating, same product, same dayreviews the score is built on
the agreement0.107 stars between the highest and the lowest of the three software sites, which is 2.4%, so there is no scandal in the scores
the catchtwo of the three report the identical 4,092, one rating is the other at full precision, and the third site's own review ids read Capterra___7215048 with a source_site field naming Capterra
what that costs youreading three sites and believing you have three opinions when you have two, one of them twice
the independent onethe site that does not share an owner carries 2,992 more reviews, 73% more, on the same product in the same month, and the gap held on a second vendor: 8,422 against 830
one call you can skipthe independent site's overview endpoint bills $0.01 for a rating and a count its own search endpoint already returned; if you searched, you have them
$0.06three sites, with the lookups
Read the reviews, and see who wrote them
Say this to your agent
>get 25 reviews for <product> from capterra on monid with the pros and cons text, then take the named reviewers with their job titles out of the getapp details response you already paid for. do not expect both from one endpoint
What the agent runsdone
capterra /get_product_reviews$0.01
getapp /get_software_details$0.01
g2 /get_product_reviews$0.05
akta /v1/company/product-reviewslisted $0.075
What came backone help-desk product · 2026-09-25
the tradeone site gives 25 reviews a page with pros and cons and five fields total, no author at all; the other gives six reviews with a name, a job title, an industry and a company size on each
the one that promised boththe $0.05 endpoint whose description lists industry, employee count, company name, location and a LinkedIn url never returned: 500, then 503 twice, billed $0.0000 each time
the cheaper aggregateranked pros and cons with counts across the whole pool cost $0.0015: ease of use 340, features 285, support 211, against missing features 139 and expensive 91
what reading them all costs25 a page with no page-size parameter to raise it, so 4,092 reviews is 164 calls, which is $1.64 for one vendor
$0.0125 reviews a page
Who else buyers considered
Say this to your agent
>get the alternatives to <product> from getapp on monid with their ratings and review counts, then tell me which of them are flagged is_premium, because those are paid placements and not a ranking
What the agent runsdone
getapp /get_software_alternatives$0.01
getapp /compare_software · not run$0.01
getapp /get_category_leaders · not run$0.01
capterra /get_category_products · not run$0.01
g2 /get_category_products · not run$0.05
What came backone help-desk product · 2026-09-25
The twenty alternatives it offeredof 20
the numberfifteen of the twenty alternatives rate higher than the product you asked about, which is worth knowing before you quote the list as a compliment
the ad slotsthe five flagged as premium are exactly positions one to five and they are not sorted by anything, while six to twenty are ordered by review count; the top of the list is inventory, not a ranking
the ten worth paying forthe details payload carries only the first ten, and on one vendor the highest-rated alternative in the whole list was in the second ten; this is the one place the cheap call is a strict subset
the size406 KB for a list of twenty, which is the largest response on this page after the details call
$0.0120 alternatives, 406 KB
The company behind the product
Say this to your agent
>get the trustpilot company overview and reviews for <domain>.com on monid. report the company score separately from the product's review-site score and do not average them: they are measuring different things
What the agent runsdone
trustpilot /get_company_overview$0.03
trustpilot /get_company_reviews$0.03
trustpilot /get_company_review_summary$0.05
clutch /search_companies$0.01
akta /v1/company/employee-reviews · not runlisted $0.075
What came backone help-desk product · 2026-09-25
The software against the companystars out of five
the gap2.5 stars, which is 58% lower, and it is not an error: one score is for the software and the other is for being a customer of the company
what the reviews saytwelve of the first twenty are one star, and the site's own summary names long delays, unhelpful automated replies and a complicated setup
the sample behind the summarythat summary opens "looking at 70 reviews" while the review count is 734, so it is built on 9.5% of the corpus and says so only inside the prose
the wrong directorysearching the agency directory for a SaaS product returned 80 real companies, none of them the subject, every rating field null, and billed $0.01 for it
$0.06overview plus twenty reviews
When the site you need is blocked
Say this to your agent
>if the g2 endpoints for <product> fail, do not retry them more than twice. ask akta on monid instead, in two calls: the company url first to get the product ids, then that id. take the star distribution, the ranked pros and cons and the pricing tiers from it, and do not wait for review text: that array comes back empty at every limit
What the agent runsdone
akta /v1/company/product-reviewslisted $0.075
g2 /get_product_reviews$0.05
g2 /get_product_pricing$0.02
trustpilot /get_company_review_summary$0.05
What came backone help-desk product · 2026-09-25
What the entry price is, depending who you askUS dollars a user a month
what was downthe biggest review site's whole read path past search: 500, then 503 twice with "site protection blocking all proxies", and the pricing endpoint 503'd twice more
what it cost$0.0000, four times over; a failed call bills nothing, which is why a retry cap of two is cheap insurance rather than a saving
the workaroundan aggregator in the other aisle already held that site's star distribution, its ranked pros and cons and its pricing tiers, for $0.0015, and it reproduced on a second vendor
the number only it hada $19 entry plan that the working review site does not show, so a page built on the working site alone would have told a reader the product starts at $55
aggregates, not reviewsthe review array came back empty at every limit we tried and on a control product, and its totals disagree with the site it mirrors by several hundred and its top pricing tier by $10; use it for the shape, not the text or the exact figure
$0.0265two calls, the blocked site's own data
Step 3
Take the cheapest route with Monid.
One $0.01 call carries most of the profile. Read it before you buy a second, and check the review count before you trust the rating.
Find the real listing · $0.03
Search software$0.02the slug, not the name
Search software$0.01the numeric id too
The profile · cheapest first
Akta reviews$0.0015
GetApp details$0.01
Capterra details$0.01
G2 overview$0.02
Trustpilot company$0.03
Check the count
Reviews behind it$0.01
The company score$0.03a different question
Back to you
rowread fromcost
1GetApp details$0.0515
2Akta reviews$0.0415
3not listed$0.03
4GetApp details$0.0515
5G2 overview$0.0815
5 of 5 rows$0.256
Say this to your agent
>tell me what buyers say about these products, cheapest source first, and show the cost per product: <paste product names>
“read the whole response”one $0.01 call carried the rating, the pricing, 215 integrations and ten alternatives
“check the review count”two sites reported the identical 4,092 because they share an owner
“check the name it returned”a natural slug guess answered 200 with a different product from the same vendor
“cap the retries at two”the biggest site's read path was blocked all session, and every failure billed $0.0000
One key. 1,700+ tools.
Two aisles: 22 software-review endpoints and 17 on the company behind them.
One call, the whole profilegetapp · $0.01 / call
Twenty-five reviews a pagecapterra · $0.01 / call
The biggest review poolg2 · $0.01 to $0.05
The company, not the producttrustpilot · $0.01 to $0.05
Someone else's data, cheaperakta · listed $0.075 / unit
Agencies, not softwareclutch · $0.01 to $0.02
Google and Facebook reviewsapify · from $0.000675
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