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The competitive-intelligence feed your agents can call
Point your AI agents at RivalSweeper and pull live competitor signals on demand. Agent-native over MCP and REST, priced per call, with no seat licenses and no annual contract.
Now in early access. Request access and we'll get back to you within 24 hours to get you started, with a one-time 50 free trial credits (valid 30 days, one per company). No card required. Free trial for qualified brands only.
Live endpoints
MCP POST https://mcp.rivalsweeper.com/mcp
REST https://mcp.rivalsweeper.com/openapi.json
Agent-native
Built to be called by software, not clicked by people. MCP and REST over the same signals.
Pay per call
A few cents a call, drawn from prepaid credits. It scales with your usage, not your headcount.
No seat, no contract
No per-user licenses and no annual commitment. Start metered, commit only when it pays off.
How it works
Four steps, from your agent's request to a signal it can act on.
Your agent calls RivalSweeper
Over MCP or a plain REST request, your agent asks for the exact signal it needs: a price, a promotion, a readiness score, a full brand snapshot.
It gets the signal back, freshness-stamped
Every response carries the time we captured the data, so your agent always knows how current the answer is before it acts.
The call draws from prepaid credits
Each answer debits a set number of credits from your prepaid balance, so the balance is a hard ceiling. Add a monthly spend cap on top and a runaway loop can never surprise you.
No data for a domain? No charge
If we have nothing for the domain your agent asked about, the call comes back empty and costs nothing. You only pay for answers that carry data.
The signals your agents can pull
Priced in tiers, because a single raw fact and a written competitive brief are not worth the same. Start with the cheap, high-volume signals and reach for synthesis when your agent needs a judgement, not a number.
Core signals
AtomicThe high-volume facts an agent asks for again and again.
Competitor price
Current price for a brand and SKU or category, dated.
Promotions
Active discounts and offers running right now, with start dates.
AI and agent-readiness score
The six-signal score for how ready a domain is for AI shopping agents.
Brand snapshot
BundleEvery current signal for one brand-day, returned in a single call.
Brand snapshot
Price, promotions, and readiness for a brand bundled together, so your agent makes one call instead of five.
History
PremiumThe time-series behind any signal, over the window you choose.
Signal history
How a price, promotion, or score moved across days, weeks, or months.
Synthesis
SynthesisWritten analysis, not raw data. Where the interpretation lives.
SWOT delta and competitive summary
A synthesized competitive brief and change narrative for a brand, written for an agent to act on.
Coming soon
More raw signals are on the roadmap. We add a signal only when it is cleanly ours to share and reliably fresh, so your agent can trust every answer it gets.
Two front doors, one dataset
Connect the way your stack already works. Same auth, same credits, same freshness stamp.
Call it over MCP
Connect the RivalSweeper Signals MCP server and any MCP-compatible agent can discover and call the signals directly. No glue code to write, no endpoints to memorize. This is the agent-native path.
Or call it over REST
Prefer plain HTTP? Every signal is a REST call with your API key. Ideal for teams whose pipelines and agents are not on MCP yet. Same data, same pricing, same freshness fields on every response.
Pricing that scales with your agents
Pay per call from prepaid credits, or commit to a monthly plan for a better rate and higher limits. Every account starts free.
This is pricing for the agent-facing Signals API. Looking for the RivalSweeper platform (dashboard, reports, and alerts) instead? See the platform subscription plans.
1 credit = $0.02 USD
You prepay credits, and every call draws them down. The dollar amounts below are simply the credit cost converted to USD, not a separate charge. All prices are in USD ($).
| Call type | Unit | Cost (credits) | ≈ USD |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atomic signal | Per query | 1 credit | ≈ $0.02 |
| Bundle (brand snapshot) | Per brand-day | 15 credits | ≈ $0.30 |
| History | Per brand-signal-month | From 5 credits | ≈ $0.10 |
| Synthesis (SWOT / brief) | Per generated brief | 25 credits | ≈ $0.50 |
Credits are the unit of account, and 1 credit = $0.02 USD. An atomic signal is 1 credit, a brand snapshot 15, and a synthesis brief 25, so usage is easy to reason about across every signal. All prices in USD ($).
Pay As You Go
- Buy credit packs on this page whenever you like
- Bigger top-ups earn up to +20% bonus credits
- List price per call, optional monthly spend cap
- Docs and email support
Need custom credit volume, negotiated rates, or an SLA? Talk to us.
Buy credits
Bigger packs earn bonus credits.
- 1Pick a pack$40 earns +10% bonus credits, $80 earns +20%.
- 2Pay with PaddleCard or PayPal, in your local currency where supported.
- 3Credits land automaticallyOn your Signals account once paid. Every call draws them down.
The email your Signals API key was issued to. Credits go to that account.
$20
1,000 credits
≈ $0.020 per credit
$40
2,200 credits
≈ $0.018 per credit
$80
4,800 credits
≈ $0.017 per credit
Payments are processed by Paddle, our merchant of record: card or PayPal, in your local currency where supported, with any local tax worked out at checkout. All prices in USD ($).
Free to try, in early access*
Request early access and every approved company gets a one-time 50 trial credits (valid 30 days), no card required. Wire your agent in, watch it pull real signals, and only add credits once it earns its keep. All prices in USD ($).
* Free trial for qualified brands only.
Freshness on every call
A capture timestamp on every response, so your agent never acts on data it cannot date.
Hard spend ceilings
Your prepaid balance is the ceiling, with an optional monthly cap on top. A runaway agent loop can never drain more than you allow.
No data, no charge
Empty answers cost nothing. You pay for signals, not requests.
Questions, answered
I already use RivalSweeper. Is Signals included in my plan?
Yes. Add the RivalSweeper Signals MCP server (https://mcp.rivalsweeper.com/mcp) to Claude or any MCP client and sign in with your RivalSweeper account. Each answer with data uses 1 credit from your plan's allowance, with nothing to buy: Basic 2,000 and Pro 10,000 per billing month, Enterprise unlimited, and the 14-day free trial includes 200. Answers with no data are free. Calls cover your own site and the rival brands you track; a company Admin can add a rival straight from Claude, within your plan's rival limit, and a newly added brand can take up to 24 hours before data appears. Prepaid credits and API keys are for developers without a RivalSweeper plan.
How do I get an API key and start free?
The Signals API is in early access. Request access from this page and we will get back to you within 24 hours. Approved accounts (the free trial is for qualified brands only) get a one-time 50 free trial credits, valid for 30 days and one trial per company, no card required. Once you are set up, point your agent at your key and it can start pulling signals in minutes.
How does billing and credits work?
Credits are the unit of account, and 1 credit is $0.02 USD (all prices are in USD). Atomic signals cost 1 credit, a brand snapshot 15, and a synthesis brief 25. You buy credit packs on this page and every call draws down from your prepaid balance. Bigger packs earn bonus credits: $20 buys 1,000 credits, $40 buys 2,200 (+10%) and $80 buys 4,800 (+20%). Payment is by card or PayPal through Paddle, our merchant of record, and the credits land on your account automatically once the payment goes through. There is no monthly bill to chase. You see a running usage statement, not a surprise invoice, so there is nothing to collect at month end.
What happens if you have no data for a domain?
You are not charged. Billing is triggered by an answer that carries data, not by the request itself. If we have nothing for the domain, the call returns empty and costs zero credits.
How fresh is the data?
Every response includes a freshness timestamp and the time the underlying data was captured. Your agent can read those fields and decide whether the answer is current enough to act on. If we ever serve data older than your plan's freshness promise, that call is credited back.
How do I connect over MCP versus REST?
Two front doors, one dataset. Connect the RivalSweeper Signals MCP server and any MCP-compatible agent can discover and call the signals directly, no glue code. Prefer REST? Call the same signals over standard HTTP with your API key. Same auth, same credits, same freshness stamp either way.
Can I cap spend and set rate limits?
Yes. Your prepaid balance is already a hard ceiling: when it runs out, calls stop and nothing is billed. On top of that we can set a monthly credit cap on your account, and per-key rate limits keep traffic predictable.
What signals are available today?
35 MCP tools today. Pricing and promotions: price statistics, active promotions and coupon codes, discount frequency and depth, most-discounted products, and significant changes such as price moves over 10%, new promotions and stock flips. Rival activity: a competitor-moves feed, newly published products and pages, homepage shelf and markdowns, technology stack, newsletters, social channels and hiring. Ads: a cross-channel ads overview and ads that point to broken pages or expired offers. AI: how AI models describe and cite a brand, a 6-pillar AI-agent readiness score and a weekly AI shopping-agent checkout race. Analysis: SWOT, homepage, product page, catalog and customer reviews, closest competitor brands and weekly predicted rival moves. Free tools check data coverage and request missing signals or new brands. Tools that draw on your RivalSweeper app data need a RivalSweeper sign-in; developers on a prepaid key get the core signals: prices, promotions, significant changes, competitor sets, AI-readiness and the brand snapshot.