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 "id": "elite-site-optimizer",
 "name": "Elite Site Optimizer",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "elitesiteoptimizer.com",
 "category": "SEO & Marketing",
 "task": null,
 "summary": "SEO platform with rank tracking, site crawling and analysis, competitor and backlink reports, spell-checking and an AI citation report, with a 14-day trial.",
 "best_for": "small businesses, freelancers and agencies that want rank tracking, site crawling and competitor reports in one SEO tool with a no-card trial",
 "skip_if": "you need a refund guarantee you can rely on, want published AI-citation quotas before you pay, or need a tool for more than five domains on a standard plan",
 "honest_knock": "The pricing FAQ promises a 30-day money-back guarantee, but the refund policy and the terms say payments are non-refundable, so we cannot tell you which one applies. The page shows dollar signs without naming a currency. The AI Citation Report's scope is not published, and usage overages are billed after the period and remain payable on cancellation.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$49",
  "entry_price_terms": "Basic · Basic billed monthly, shown with a dollar sign (the page names no ISO currency code): 1 domain, 1 user, 100 keywords, 1,000 crawl pages",
  "from_price_usd_month": 49.0,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(monthly prices read 2026-11-05 on elitesiteoptimizer.com/pricing; annual totals read 15 October 2026) Elite Site Optimizer sells monthly or annual plans with limits on domains, users, campaigns and keywords. Basic costs $49 a month ($470 a year) for 1 domain, 1 user, 1 campaign, 100 keywords, 1,000 crawl pages and 3 competitors. Pro costs $69 a month ($662 a year) for 2 domains, 2 users, 5 campaigns, 750 keywords, 2,000 crawl pages and 5 competitors, and adds Zeroth Rank. Pro+ costs $119 a month ($1,142 a year) for 5 domains, 3 users, 20 campaigns, 2,500 keywords and 5,000 crawl pages. A separate AI Citation Report card costs $99 a month ($999 a year) and tracks where a brand appears in AI answers; the page does not say whether it is an add-on or what its quotas are. Enterprise is custom. The page shows dollar signs without naming the currency, and a 14-day free trial needs no card. Taxes are excluded under the general terms and usage overages are billed after the period.",
  "verified_at": "2026-11-05",
  "source_url": "https://www.elitesiteoptimizer.com/pricing/",
  "schema_offer": {
   "price": 49.0,
   "currency": "USD",
   "description": "Basic, Basic billed monthly, shown with a dollar sign (the page names no ISO currency code): 1 domain, 1 user, 100 keywords, 1,000 crawl pages; Pro $69, Pro+ $119, AI Citation Report $99; annual totals $470, $662, $1,142 and $999 (read 15 Oct 2026 via Codex, monthly grid re-read 5 Nov 2026). Read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-11-05.",
   "page": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/elite-site-optimizer-review.html"
  },
  "source_quotes": [
   {
    "field": "free_trial",
    "plan": null,
    "quote": "Experience the Complete ESO platform Free for 14 Days",
    "source_url": "https://www.elitesiteoptimizer.com/pricing/",
    "read_on": "2026-10-15"
   },
   {
    "field": "refund",
    "plan": null,
    "quote": "Yes, we offer a 30-day money-back guarantee if you are not satisfied with our service.",
    "source_url": "https://www.elitesiteoptimizer.com/pricing/",
    "read_on": "2026-10-15"
   }
  ],
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "Taxes are excluded under the general terms and usage overages are billed after the period.",
   "verified_at": "2026-11-05",
   "source_url": "https://www.elitesiteoptimizer.com/pricing/"
  },
  {
   "id": "addons_extra",
   "label": "Key features are paid add-ons",
   "evidence": "A separate AI Citation Report card costs $99 a month ($999 a year) and tracks where a brand appears in AI answers; the page does not say whether it is an add-on or what its quotas are.",
   "verified_at": "2026-11-05",
   "source_url": "https://www.elitesiteoptimizer.com/pricing/"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Similarweb",
  "why": "Similarweb is in our dossiers as a traffic and competitor-intelligence platform. Elite Site Optimizer is a cheaper, narrower SEO suite with rank tracking, crawling and spell-checking from $49 a month, without Similarweb's market-traffic data"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/elite-site-optimizer.json",
  "review": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/elite-site-optimizer-review.html",
  "marketplace": null,
  "vendor_site": "https://elitesiteoptimizer.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://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=130593&awinaffid=2880219",
  "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."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "read",
  "free_trial": "quoted",
  "refund": "quoted"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "elite-site-optimizer: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": "elite-site-optimizer:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "elite-site-optimizer:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "elite-site-optimizer: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"
  }
 }
}