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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "carbon6",
 "name": "Carbon6",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "carbon6.io",
 "category": "Operations & Workflow",
 "task": "E-commerce & inventory ops",
 "summary": "A suite of Amazon seller tools sold per product rather than as one subscription: Seller Investigators (FBA reimbursement recovery), ChargeGuard (1P vendor recovery for chargeback fees, shortages and accruals), PixelMe, DSP Prime and PPC Entourage (advertising), SoStocked (demand and inventory planning), ScanUnlimited (wholesale sourcing), plus ManageByStats, D8aDriven, AMZAlert and SellerAssist. Ownership matters here: SPS Commerce bought Carbon6 in Feb 2025 and folded the 1P deduction-recovery work into spscommerce.com, then transferred the 3P Amazon-seller business to Carbon6 on 30 Jun 2026 — the suite is sold under the Carbon6 brand again, with the partner programme rebranding from SPS to Carbon6 on 24 Aug 2026 and commission terms unchanged.",
 "best_for": "Amazon sellers who want reimbursements, advertising, inventory and sourcing tools from one vendor and are content to buy them tool by tool — the suite trades under the Carbon6 brand again since 30 Jun 2026, so there is a named counterparty on the contract",
 "skip_if": "you want one flat subscription and one invoice: this is a suite priced per tool, each with its own contract, and the pieces have moved between owners twice since Feb 2025 — check which entity your existing agreement actually names before you add another one",
 "honest_knock": "The honest headline here is not pricing but ownership — and it has moved again, this time in the reader's favour. SPS Commerce bought Carbon6 for roughly $210M on 7 Feb 2025 and retired the brand into spscommerce.com. On 30 Jun 2026 it sold the entire 3P (Amazon marketplace seller) revenue-recovery business for $9.5M cash, booking an estimated $20M loss, and named no buyer at the time. There is a name now. The partner-programme notice we received on 17 Aug 2026, from Carbon6's own partnerships contact, states that SPS transferred ownership of the 3P business to Carbon6 and that commission terms and payouts are unchanged. It also states that existing links were redirected to the Carbon6 tool sites on 14 Aug 2026, and that the programme itself rebrands from SPS to Carbon6 on 24 Aug 2026. Reading carbon6.io on 17 Aug 2026 matches that: the whole suite is on sale there again as \"by Carbon6\". Read the two purchase numbers carefully, because they are not the same thing. The $210M bought the whole Carbon6 stack; the $9.5M was the 3P arm alone, and offloading it at a book loss seventeen months in still tells you how it performed. What remains undisclosed is who stands behind the Carbon6 entity itself, so the question is answered one level down and no further. Two more things to hold. Reuters reported on 23 Jun 2026 that SPS hired Morgan Stanley to explore a sale of itself under activist pressure, with talks early and no deal assured. And the 1P side is no longer a clean split, because SPS kept the deduction-recovery business it bought while Carbon6's own site now lists ChargeGuard for Amazon 1P vendor recovery. Ask which entity your 1P work would sit with before you sign. For 3P reimbursements the July advice has expired — you can name the counterparty on your contract again.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "see_details",
  "entry_price": null,
  "entry_price_terms": null,
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": [
   {
    "name": "ScanUnlimited Limited",
    "price": "$0/mo",
    "includes": "1 file upload a month, 10,000 products per upload"
   },
   {
    "name": "ScanUnlimited Unlimited",
    "price": "$70/mo",
    "includes": "unlimited uploads, 100,000 products per file — $60/mo on the annual plan ($720/yr)"
   },
   {
    "name": "SoStocked Inventory + Profit",
    "price": "from $175/mo",
    "includes": "inventory forecasting plus profit planning, free trial"
   },
   {
    "name": "Seller Investigators",
    "price": "25% commission",
    "includes": "charged only after Amazon deposits the recovered funds; free 48-hour audit"
   },
   {
    "name": "PixelMe, DSP Prime, PPC Entourage",
    "price": "not published",
    "includes": "quoted by sales"
   }
  ],
  "plans_source": "hand-curated from the vendor's pricing page",
  "notes": "What we can verify on the vendor’s own pages today (re-checked 10 Oct 2026; unchanged since 26 Aug 2026): carbon6.io/pricing now redirects to the tool list, so there is no suite-level price at all. SoStocked has dropped its two-tier ladder — where on 21 Jul it listed ProfitFlow at $97/mo and ProfitFlow + Inventory at \"starting at\" $250/mo, it now shows a single Inventory + Profit plan at \"starting at\" $175/mo with a free trial. ScanUnlimited lists a free Limited tier and Unlimited at $70/mo, or $60/mo on the annual plan ($720/yr, marketed as two months free); the Unlimited Plus tier that sat above it at $1,080/yr is no longer on the pricing page. The off-Amazon advertising tool is listed as PixelMe by Carbon6 again rather than SPS Ad Performance, and it publishes no price. The 3P FBA-reimbursement service is a contingency arrangement: Seller Investigators by Carbon6 states a 25% commission charged only after Amazon has deposited the recovered funds, stated twice on its own site (re-read 26 Aug 2026), after a free 48-hour audit with no obligation. Our older suite-level figures — entry tools from about $49/mo, PixelMe from about $500/mo with a 6-month minimum, and $300-500+/mo for a working stack — stay withdrawn: none of those is verifiable against a live authoritative source today.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-10",
  "source_url": null,
  "schema_offer": null,
  "source_quotes": [
   {
    "field": "price",
    "plan": "SoStocked Inventory + Profit",
    "quote": "Starting at $175 per month",
    "source_url": "https://www.sostocked.com/pricing/",
    "read_on": "2026-10-23"
   }
  ]
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Helium 10 or GETIDA",
  "why": "Helium 10 is the flat-priced seller suite with published tiers, and GETIDA is the independent FBA-reimbursement specialist. Against a suite that has changed hands twice in eighteen months, both still win on continuity. The owner question itself is no longer open, though: the 3P business trades as Carbon6 again since 30 Jun 2026, on unchanged commission terms"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/carbon6.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/carbon6-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/carbon6/",
  "vendor_site": "https://carbon6.io"
 },
 "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://ps.carbon6.io/d2uxhs1usng6",
  "affiliate": false,
  "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": [
  "Pricing status is 'see_details': no single public entry price.",
  "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.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "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."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "quoted",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "carbon6: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": "carbon6:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "carbon6:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "carbon6: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"
  }
 }
}