Answering service pricing: Answering Service Price Index

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).

28 of the 46 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 18 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.

The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in USD (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 26 figures, never sentences; 387 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.

The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per provider per published plan: the billing model (per call, per minute, per month), the base fee, the allowance it buys, the overage rate, the billing increment, the setup fee and the minimum term - and across the rows the figures nobody publishes: the EFFECTIVE COST PER CALL at 25, 50, 100, 250 and 500 calls a month for every plan on one axis (an average handle time applied to the per-minute plans, the allowance and overage applied to the rest), the cheapest plan at each of those volumes, the median and spread of the entry price, the share of providers that publish a rate at all against those that quote only, the share that genuinely bill per CALL rather than per minute, and repriced-since the previous read

387 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.