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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "chemicloud",
 "name": "ChemiCloud",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "chemicloud.com",
 "category": "IT & Productivity",
 "task": "Hosting & websites",
 "summary": "Lightning-fast cloud hosting with free migrations, daily backups, and 24/7 expert support. Perfect balance of performance and affordability for growing businesses.",
 "best_for": "small businesses, freelancers and growing sites that want fast, well-supported managed shared or WordPress hosting at a low starting price",
 "skip_if": "you need enterprise-grade dedicated infrastructure and SLAs, or you'll be unhappy when the low intro rate renews at standard pricing",
 "honest_knock": "The honest catch is the one every budget host shares: the headline price is an introductory rate, and renewals land roughly three times higher, so judge it on the renewal cost, not the sign-up teaser. Support and performance reviews are genuinely strong for the price band, but this is shared/managed hosting — if you need serious dedicated resources or enterprise SLAs, you'll outgrow the cheap tiers. Great value to start, just enter with eyes open on renewal.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$1.95",
  "entry_price_terms": "per month on the 36-month term (September campaign)",
  "from_price_usd_month": 1.95,
  "plans": [
   {
    "name": "Starter",
    "price": "$1.95/mo on 36-month term or $3.49/mo on 12 months",
    "includes": "free first-year domain (36-month term), free SSL, daily backups, free migration"
   },
   {
    "name": "Pro",
    "price": "$2.95/mo on 36-month term or $4.49/mo on 12 months",
    "includes": "free first-year domain (36-month term), free SSL, daily backups, free migration"
   },
   {
    "name": "Turbo",
    "price": "$3.49/mo on 36-month term or $4.95/mo on 12 months",
    "includes": "free first-year domain (36-month term), free SSL, daily backups, free migration"
   },
   {
    "name": "Kickstart",
    "price": "$17.95/mo",
    "includes": "reseller hosting"
   },
   {
    "name": "Cloud 1",
    "price": "$32.95/mo",
    "includes": "managed cloud VPS, 7-day money-back guarantee"
   },
   {
    "name": "Managed WordPress",
    "price": "$25/mo with $1 first month, or $12.50/mo billed yearly",
    "includes": "managed WordPress hosting"
   }
  ],
  "plans_source": "summarised from pricing.notes; every plan name and amount appears verbatim in those notes",
  "notes": "(re-verified 2026-09-02) Shared hosting starts at $1.95/mo on the September campaign: ChemiCloud's Back to Build sale runs from 2 September 4:00 AM EST to 30 September 11:59 PM EST and prices Starter, Pro and Turbo at $1.95, $2.95 and $3.49 a month on the 36-month term, or $3.49, $4.49 and $4.95 on 12 months. We read it on changeover day, with the outgoing 10th-birthday sale still on the hosting page behind a countdown of under twelve hours at $1.49, $2.49 and $3.49, so the entry price rises by 46 cents as that clock runs out. What did not move in either sale is the renewal, and that is the number that matters: $11.95, $17.95 and $21.95 a month for Starter, Pro and Turbo. Across the rest of the range, reseller starts at $17.95/mo (Kickstart, regular $34.95), managed cloud VPS at $32.95/mo (Cloud 1, regular $59.95, on a 7-day money-back guarantee rather than 45 days), and managed WordPress at $25/mo with a $1 first month, or $12.50/mo billed yearly. Shared plans include a free first-year domain on the 36-month term, free SSL, daily backups and free migration.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-02",
  "source_url": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "renewal_jump",
   "label": "Renewal price jump",
   "evidence": "The honest catch is the one every budget host shares: the headline price is an introductory rate, and renewals land roughly three times higher, so judge it on the renewal cost, not the sign-up teaser.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-02",
   "source_url": null
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "SiteGround or Cloudways",
  "why": "comparable managed hosts — ChemiCloud competes hard on intro price and support; compare renewal rates and performance for your stack"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/chemicloud.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/chemicloud-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/chemicloud/",
  "vendor_site": "https://chemicloud.com"
 },
 "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://chemicloud.com/#h09q7aez7gtgm",
  "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": [
  "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": "chemicloud: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": "chemicloud:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "chemicloud:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "chemicloud: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"
  }
 }
}