{
  "generatedAt": "2026-05-20T02:31:32.746Z",
  "ready": true,
  "note": "Official pricing references for filling source-acquisition-cost-plan.json. This report does not unlock spend; budget, cost-plan, approval, preflight, and spend gates still control paid usage.",
  "counts": {
    "references": 5,
    "providers": 2,
    "dataforseoReferences": 3,
    "apifyReferences": 2
  },
  "guardrails": [
    "Record current provider pricing source and timestamp before enabling budget caps.",
    "Keep DataForSEO Stage 1 at depth=10 and 9 ASINs until raw quality and actual cost are reviewed.",
    "Keep Apify Stage 2 behind a DataForSEO review decision and named gap.",
    "This reference report is not a substitute for checking account billing pages before spend."
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "Provider": "DataForSEO",
      "Stage": "1",
      "PricingItem": "Amazon Reviews API standard queue",
      "Unit": "every 10 reviews",
      "Price": "$0.00075",
      "SourceUrl": "https://dataforseo.com/apis/reviews-api/amazon-reviews-api",
      "SourceCheckedAt": "2026-05-20T02:31:32.746Z",
      "AppliesToPlan": "Stage 1 uses depth=10 per ASIN, so the first 9-ASIN pilot should be estimated from 9 units of 10 reviews before any buffer.",
      "Caveat": "Official page uses USD pricing. Convert/record the working budget currency in data/sources/budgets/source-acquisition-cost-plan.json before approvals."
    },
    {
      "Provider": "DataForSEO",
      "Stage": "1",
      "PricingItem": "Amazon Reviews API priority queue",
      "Unit": "every 10 reviews",
      "Price": "$0.0015",
      "SourceUrl": "https://dataforseo.com/apis/reviews-api/amazon-reviews-api",
      "SourceCheckedAt": "2026-05-20T02:31:32.746Z",
      "AppliesToPlan": "Priority queue is not the default pilot recommendation; use only if turnaround time matters more than cost.",
      "Caveat": "Keep the pilot in standard queue unless a human explicitly updates the cost plan and approval."
    },
    {
      "Provider": "DataForSEO",
      "Stage": "1",
      "PricingItem": "Depth billing rule",
      "Unit": "10-review increments",
      "Price": "round depth up to the next 10-review block",
      "SourceUrl": "https://dataforseo.com/help-center/get-amazon-reviews",
      "SourceCheckedAt": "2026-05-20T02:31:32.746Z",
      "AppliesToPlan": "Depth=10 avoids accidental double billing; depth=11 would be charged as 20 reviews.",
      "Caveat": "Do not change depth from 10 in asin-map.csv without updating the cost plan and approval cap."
    },
    {
      "Provider": "Apify",
      "Stage": "2",
      "PricingItem": "Actor compute units on Creator/standard public pricing reference",
      "Unit": "compute unit",
      "Price": "$0.2 per CU",
      "SourceUrl": "https://apify.com/pricing/creator-plan",
      "SourceCheckedAt": "2026-05-20T02:31:32.746Z",
      "AppliesToPlan": "Stage 2 must stay one actor run, first 3 targets, 3 requests per brand, then dataset inspection.",
      "Caveat": "Actor-specific runs can also incur proxy/data/storage usage; inspect actual run usage before any second run."
    },
    {
      "Provider": "Apify",
      "Stage": "2",
      "PricingItem": "Actor usage drivers",
      "Unit": "memory x duration plus platform services",
      "Price": "varies by CU, transfer, proxy, storage",
      "SourceUrl": "https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/usage-and-resources",
      "SourceCheckedAt": "2026-05-20T02:31:32.746Z",
      "AppliesToPlan": "Browser actors and heavy pages cost more; Stage 2 should use Apify only for named gaps after DataForSEO review.",
      "Caveat": "Use the first dataset run as the real cost sample; do not estimate full-catalogue scraping from generic CU pricing."
    }
  ]
}
