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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "alidrop",
 "name": "Alidrop",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "alidrop.co",
 "category": "Growth & Revenue",
 "task": "E-commerce growth",
 "summary": "Dropshipping automation — product sourcing, fulfilment and inventory sync, with access to faster-shipping US and EU suppliers. The subscription sits on top of wholesale cost, so margins still turn on product selection and ad efficiency.",
 "best_for": "dropshippers who want automated product sourcing, fulfillment and inventory sync with access to faster-shipping suppliers and one-click store integration",
 "skip_if": "you want the absolute widest catalog at rock-bottom sourcing cost, or your margins can't absorb both the subscription and wholesale product cost",
 "honest_knock": "Alidrop's pitch includes faster-shipping (including US/EU) suppliers, but the core dropshipping economics still apply: you pay the subscription plus wholesale product cost, and margins live or die on product selection and ad efficiency, not the tool. The low Starter product cap nudges serious stores up to Pro quickly, and as with any dropshipping automation, the platform reduces but doesn't remove supplier-quality and shipping-time risk. Sample before you scale.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$39",
  "entry_price_terms": "per month (50 unique/25 premium products)",
  "from_price_usd_month": 39.0,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(re-verified 2026-10-02 on their own pricing page) Four monthly plans: Starter $39/mo (50 unique / 25 premium products), Professional $59/mo (500 unique / 250 premium), Empire $99/mo (5,000 unique / 2,500 premium) and Unicorn $299/mo (25,000 unique / 25,000 premium). A 7-day trial costs $1, and there are no transaction or hidden fees. Annual billing is listed only from Professional up — $288, $684 and $948 a year — and the discount grows with the tier: 6 months off Professional, 5 off Empire and 8 off Unicorn, so the advertised “up to 8 months off” is the Unicorn rate rather than a general one, and Starter has no annual column at all. An optional one-time custom-store build service starts at $299. The $1 trial converts to the full monthly rate of whichever plan you picked, and your card stays on file — set a reminder if you are only testing.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-02",
  "source_url": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "annual_lock",
   "label": "Annual commitment",
   "evidence": "Annual billing is listed only from Professional up — $288, $684 and $948 a year — and the discount grows with the tier: 6 months off Professional, 5 off Empire and 8 off Unicorn, so the advertised “up to 8 months off” is the Unicorn rate rather than a general one, and Starter has no annual column at all.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-02",
   "source_url": null
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Spocket or DSers",
  "why": "close dropshipping-automation peers — compare supplier networks, shipping speed and product caps at your plan tier"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/alidrop.json",
  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/alidrop-review/",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/alidrop/",
  "vendor_site": "https://alidrop.co"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://get.alidrop.co/uwv5ldbg7zss",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "alidrop:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "alidrop:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "alidrop:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "alidrop:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}