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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "expertex",
 "name": "ExpertEx",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "expertex.ai",
 "category": "IT & Productivity",
 "task": "AI video & voice content",
 "summary": "A unified AI studio: chat across multiple models (GPT-4, Gemini), generate images, video and voice, and reuse prompts — multilingual, all in one workspace.",
 "best_for": "online stores that need a steady stream of product photos and short video ads and would otherwise pay a studio or a freelancer per shoot -- the e-commerce studio pushes results straight to the live store on Ultra and above",
 "skip_if": "you need one hero shoot a year (a photographer is cheaper and better), your products are hard to render convincingly, or you want a free tier to evaluate on -- generating always costs credits",
 "honest_knock": "The plan cards and the calculator on the same page do not agree, and the gap is large enough to pick the wrong tier. Starter is sold as 65 product photos and 10 short video ads a month on 1,000 credits; at the calculator's own rates that work costs 4,125 credits, four times the allowance. The card numbers only reconcile if each is taken alone, and at roughly 15 credits a photo and 100 a video. The same 4.2x mismatch repeats on every tier, so it is a systematic difference rather than a typo. Ask which rate governs before you buy, because the calculator will steer you to a plan two rungs above what the card implies. The second thing to price is that this is a credit product with no free tier. Prompt Builder is free; generating is not. And the cheap trials ($1, $2, $5) are three days rather than a month -- enough to test output quality, not enough to test a monthly workflow. And the fundamental one: AI product photography is judged on whether the output is publishable without a retoucher. Run your own worst product through the trial -- a reflective bottle, a garment with fine texture -- rather than the kind of thing that looks good in every demo.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$10",
  "entry_price_terms": "a month, or $7 billed yearly, for 1,000 credits",
  "from_price_usd_month": 10.0,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-08-22 in a live browser on expertex.ai/pricing -- plain fetches return an empty page, so this is the first reading we have of the real ladder) There are four credit tiers, monthly against yearly with two months free. Starter is $10 or $7 for 1,000 credits, and Premium $30 or $20 for 3,000. Ultra is $75 or $45 for 7,500, and Professional $250 or $149 for 25,000. Paid three-day trials sit alongside them at $1 for Premium (1,000 credits), $2 for Ultra (2,000) and $5 for Professional (5,000), with full access and cancellation before renewal. The page's own calculator prices the work at 25 credits per product photo, 250 per short video ad and 2,000 per full reel, and reels require Ultra or above. Credits roll over month to month while the subscription is active and are lost on cancellation; you can top up on demand or upgrade mid-month, with upgrades prorated immediately and downgrades taking effect at the next billing date. Prompt Builder is free to use before subscribing. One label on that page understates its own offer. The monthly/yearly toggle is sold as two months free, which would be a sixth off, but the yearly rates sit far below that: $7 against $10 is 30% off, $20 against $30 is a third, and $45 against $75 and $149 against $250 are both about 40%. Counted in months rather than percentages, a year costs 8.4 months of Starter, 8 of Premium and 7.2 of Ultra and Professional — so the saving runs from three and a half to nearly five months, not two, and on this page the annual commitment is worth more than the vendor claims for it. ExpertEx told us through PartnerStack on 11 September 2026 that this label and the card-versus-calculator gap are both with their website team as a priority, so expect these figures to move. Read again in a browser on 10 October 2026: the four individual tiers, trials, credit rates and FAQ answers are unchanged, and the page now has a separate Teams tab. Lite is priced per seat with a minimum of 5 seats: $7 a seat a month for 1,000 credits per seat, $18 for 3,000 and $30 for 5,000. Growth, also with a 5-seat minimum, is $59 a seat a month for 10,000 credits per seat and $115 for 20,000, and adds Reels & Shorts Studio early access and E-commerce Studio for 1 store. Ultimate is shown as $3.000 \"/seat/month\" for 500K total team credits with \"Unlimited seats included\", covering up to 10 brands and 10 stores; the page does not reconcile the per-seat label with the unlimited seats. On the Teams tab yearly billing is exactly two months free: $25 against $30, $95.83 against $115 and $2,500 against $3,000.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-10",
  "source_url": null
 },
 "free_plan": true,
 "free_plan_evidence": "On the Teams tab yearly billing is exactly two months free: $25 against $30, $95.83 against $115 and $2,500 against $3,000.",
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "per_seat",
   "label": "Per-seat pricing",
   "evidence": "Lite is priced per seat with a minimum of 5 seats: $7 a seat a month for 1,000 credits per seat, $18 for 3,000 and $30 for 5,000.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-10",
   "source_url": null
  },
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "(read 2026-08-22 in a live browser on expertex.ai/pricing -- plain fetches return an empty page, so this is the first reading we have of the real ladder) There are four credit tiers, monthly against yearly with two months free.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-10",
   "source_url": null
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Poe / ChatGPT",
  "why": "single-model or aggregator chat tools"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/expertex.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/expertex-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/expertex/",
  "vendor_site": "https://expertex.ai"
 },
 "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://try.expertex.ai/0e5xivitpivy",
  "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": "expertex: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": "expertex:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "expertex:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "expertex: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"
  }
 }
}