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 "study_id": "aibm-r05-ai-price-answer-accuracy",
 "slug": "ai-price-answers-accuracy",
 "title": "Report 05: do AI answers get software prices right?",
 "type": "market_observation",
 "edition": "2026-10-01",
 "first_published": "2026-10-07",
 "edition_published": "2026-10-07",
 "population": "40 answers to '[tool] pricing' for 20 business tools, one per tool on each of ChatGPT, Perplexity, US locale, 2026-10-01.",
 "population_short": "25 assessable answers",
 "selection": "The same 20 tools every month (the Report 02 set). An answer is assessable when our Price Watch captured the vendor's pricing page with readable amounts on the same date.",
 "measurement_period": {
  "start": "2026-10-01",
  "end": "2026-10-01"
 },
 "headline": {
  "text": "assessable AI answers stated at least one price we could not find on the vendor's pricing page that morning",
  "numerator": 11,
  "denominator": 25,
  "metric": "answers_with_amount_not_on_page"
 },
 "metrics": [
  {
   "id": "all_on_page",
   "label": "every amount appears on the vendor's pricing page captured that morning",
   "numerator": 12,
   "denominator": 40
  },
  {
   "id": "some_not_on_page",
   "label": "at least one amount does not appear on that page",
   "numerator": 11,
   "denominator": 40
  },
  {
   "id": "currency_differs",
   "label": "amounts match only in another currency (our capture showed a different price list)",
   "numerator": 2,
   "denominator": 40
  },
  {
   "id": "no_amounts",
   "label": "the answer states no amount other than $0 / free",
   "numerator": 5,
   "denominator": 40
  },
  {
   "id": "not_assessable",
   "label": "no usable capture of the vendor's pricing page from the same day",
   "numerator": 10,
   "denominator": 40
  }
 ],
 "limitations": [
  "'Not on the page' is not the same as wrong: the amount may come from another page, a region or a conversion.",
  "Our capture reads the pricing page as it first loads; prices behind tabs or toggles (annual/monthly, site/workspace plans) can be missing from it.",
  "$0 ('free') claims are not scored: the capture records amounts, and free plans are often shown as the word Free.",
  "Only amounts with a currency sign are compared; plan names, billing terms and included usage are not scored yet.",
  "Our capture runs from a server in the EU; some vendors then show a euro price list ('currency differs').",
  "One answer per tool and engine per month."
 ],
 "method_url": "#method",
 "evidence_url": "#answers",
 "verification": {
  "last_verified": "2026-10-01"
 },
 "next_full_recheck": "monthly: AI run on the 1st, compared with the same day's capture",
 "schema": "aibm-research-manifest/1",
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   "name": "claims.csv",
   "url": "/research/ai-price-answers-accuracy/data/2026-10-01/claims.csv",
   "bytes": 16137,
   "sha256": "a8fef8a1ef24083ed38f651e944b071bbc3213e39af6f1a38d804ed8b386f22f"
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 ],
 "author": {
  "name": "Daniel Haket",
  "url": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/about/",
  "email": "daniel@aibuildermarketplace.com"
 },
 "reviewer": null,
 "license": {
  "name": "CC BY 4.0",
  "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "scope": "Our own data, analysis, tables and charts. Quoted vendor text and screenshots of vendor pages remain the vendor's; we reproduce them as evidence."
 },
 "contact": "daniel@aibuildermarketplace.com",
 "corrections": [],
 "fingerprint": "312dee5ecad2ba86"
}