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 "id": "tapita-seo-optimizer",
 "name": "Tapita SEO Optimizer",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "tapita.io",
 "category": "SEO & Marketing",
 "task": "E-commerce growth",
 "summary": "All-in-one Shopify SEO app: site audits with LLMs.txt for AI search engines, bulk and AI-written metadata, image alt text and compression, JSON-LD schema, broken-link auto-redirects and one-click speed fixes.",
 "best_for": "Shopify merchants on the Basic or Grow plan who want SEO audits, bulk metadata, image alt text and speed fixes out of one app instead of hiring a specialist",
 "skip_if": "you are on Shopify Advanced or Plus, where the same tier costs $30 to $60 a month more, or you need a published per-credit rate before you build a month of AI metadata around it",
 "honest_knock": "The price on the listing is a Shopify-Basic price, and almost nobody reads the line underneath it. The same Premium plan is $49.99 on Shopify Basic, $54.99 on Grow, $79.99 on Advanced and $109.99 on Shopify Plus, because Tapita adds $5, $30 or $60 a month on top depending on your Shopify plan. On the Business tier the spread is sevenfold, $9.99 to $69.99, and it is the single largest factor in what this app costs you. Work out which row you are on before you compare it to anything else.\n\nThe ladder also moved. On our reads of 21 August and 10 September 2026 the top tier was Pro at $39.99 a month; on 9 October 2026 it is Premium at $49.99, $10 more before any surcharge.\n\nThe second meter has no published rate at all. Business gives you 100 AI metadata credits a month and Premium 500, and beyond that the listing says only that more audit pages and more credits carry an extra charge. It does not say how much, and it does not say how many credits one product's metadata consumes. Tapita's own sister app publishes $0.06 a credit on its listing; this one publishes nothing, so you cannot price a month of AI metadata before you install.\n\nAnd the free tier is a demonstration rather than a plan: 50 products for bulk alt text and file names, 30 images a day, and the SEO audit and LLMs.txt limited to basic pages.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$9.99",
  "entry_price_terms": "Business · per month on the Shopify Basic plan",
  "from_price_usd_month": 9.99,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-10-09 and re-read 2026-10-12 on apps.shopify.com/google-seo-schema-meta-data, English listing) Three tiers. Free: SEO audit and LLMs.txt on basic pages, unlimited on-page SEO audit, essential JSON-LD schemas, image compression 900 a month capped at 30 a day, bulk and AI metadata optimisation, bulk image alt text and file names for 50 products, instant page speed and 24/7 support chat for common SEO issues. Business $9.99 a month or $101.88 a year, advertised as a 15% saving (it checks out: $101.88 against $119.88), adds full features, support to fix all SEO and Google Search Console issues, SEO audit and LLMs.txt on main pages, auto image optimisation 100 a day, 100 AI metadata credits a month, broken-link detection with auto-redirects and advanced speed features. Premium $49.99 a month or $509.88 a year, also 15% ($509.88 against $599.88), adds regular page-speed and real-user-monitoring optimisation, SEO audit and LLMs.txt on all main pages, 500 images a day, 500 AI credits a month, higher speed capacity and an onboarding call. Both paid tiers carry the same surcharge line, and it is the number that decides what this costs: +$5 a month on the Shopify Grow plan, +$30 on Advanced and +$60 on Shopify Plus. So Business is $9.99, $14.99, $39.99 or $69.99, and Premium is $49.99, $54.99, $79.99 or $109.99, depending on which Shopify plan you are on (our arithmetic on the listed rates). Extra audit pages and extra AI credits are billed on top and the listing does not print a per-credit rate. All charges are billed in USD and recur every 30 days. Historical: on our reads of 21 August and 10 September 2026 the paid tiers were called Basic ($9.99, $101.88 a year) and Pro ($39.99, $408 a year), and Pro then listed unlimited keyword research, which no tier lists on 9 October 2026. Developer Tapita, M5 Building, 91 Nguyen Chi Thanh, Hanoi; the app launched 15 March 2023 and carries Shopify's “Built for Shopify” badge.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-12",
  "source_url": "https://apps.shopify.com/google-seo-schema-meta-data"
 },
 "free_plan": true,
 "free_plan_evidence": "Free: SEO audit and LLMs.txt on basic pages, unlimited on-page SEO audit, essential JSON-LD schemas, image compression 900 a month capped at 30 a day, bulk and AI metadata optimisation, bulk image alt text and file names for 50 products, instant page speed and 24/7 support chat for common SEO issues.",
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "Business $9.99 a month or $101.88 a year, advertised as a 15% saving (it checks out: $101.88 against $119.88), adds full features, support to fix all SEO and Google Search Console issues, SEO audit and LLMs.txt on main pages, auto image optimisation 100 a day, 100 AI metadata credits a month, broken-link detection with auto-redirects and advanced speed features.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-12",
   "source_url": "https://apps.shopify.com/google-seo-schema-meta-data"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": null,
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/tapita-seo-optimizer.json",
  "review": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/tapita-seo-optimizer-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/tapita-seo-optimizer/",
  "vendor_site": "https://tapita.io"
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 "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://platform.shoffi.app/r/rl_CHreIi9B",
  "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": "tapita-seo-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": "tapita-seo-optimizer:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "tapita-seo-optimizer:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "tapita-seo-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_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"
  }
 }
}