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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "carouselbot",
 "name": "CarouselBot",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "carouselbot.app",
 "category": "Marketing",
 "task": "Social media",
 "summary": "AI tool that turns a topic or an article into LinkedIn and Instagram carousels, single social cards, branded long-form documents and batch content sets, in four aspect ratios with your own brand settings.",
 "best_for": "solo creators, consultants and small marketing teams who post LinkedIn and Instagram carousels every week and want to turn articles and ideas into branded slides without designing them by hand",
 "skip_if": "you want free-form layouts in a full design tool; you need scheduling and publishing in the same app, which the pricing page does not list; or you post a carousel only now and then and the watermark-free plans are more than you need",
 "honest_knock": "Free exports carry a watermark and the free card sets, batch and document are lifetime totals, not monthly. Creator allows only 3 batches a month. The refund window is 7 days, the cards do not name their currency, and Business is only a starting price.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$10",
  "entry_price_terms": "Creator · billed monthly",
  "from_price_usd_month": 10.0,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-10-17 in a browser on carouselbot.app/pricing, Monthly and Annual views; the cards show a $ sign without naming the currency) Free is $0 forever: 3 carousels a month, plus 3 card sets, 1 batch collection and 1 document in total, up to 2,500 words per document, and PNG, JPG and PDF exports with a watermark. Creator is $10 a month, or $79 a year on annual billing (shown as $6.58 a month): unlimited carousels, 3 card sets, 3 batches and 10 documents a month, up to 5,000 words per document, no watermark. Pro is $30 a month, or $249 a year (shown as $20.75 a month): unlimited card sets, batches and documents, up to 10,000 words per document. The annual cards cross out $120 and $360, twelve monthly payments. Business is a starting price of $50 a month for agencies and teams, adding bulk creation from up to 50 URLs; its final price and billing are not stated. The FAQ offers a 7-day money-back guarantee on all paid plans, requested by email; after cancelling you keep access until the billing period ends, then drop to Free, and saved work stays in your library.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-17",
  "source_url": "https://www.carouselbot.app/pricing"
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "annual_lock",
   "label": "Annual commitment",
   "evidence": "Creator is $10 a month, or $79 a year on annual billing (shown as $6.58 a month): unlimited carousels, 3 card sets, 3 batches and 10 documents a month, up to 5,000 words per document, no watermark.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-17",
   "source_url": "https://www.carouselbot.app/pricing"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Piktochart",
  "why": "Piktochart is in our dossiers too: a template-based maker for infographics, reports and posters, with a free plan and Pro at $10 per member a month billed yearly when we read it on 19 September 2026. CarouselBot is narrower and more automatic: it generates the slides for social carousels and cards from your text, priced per account rather than per member."
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/carouselbot.json",
  "review": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/carouselbot-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/carouselbot/",
  "vendor_site": "https://carouselbot.app"
 },
 "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://carouselbot.app/pricing?aff=6NyDVn",
  "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": "carouselbot: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": "carouselbot:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "carouselbot:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "carouselbot: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_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "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"
  }
 }
}