Engineering manualAcquisition and cost
Acquisition and cost reference
Every catalogued capability, what it costs, what it is allowed to ask for, and how much of that is actually enforced.
Brand Studio is brand monitoring at scale. Monitoring only works if what we ask a provider is fixed and identical across brands and across runs, and if what it costs is knowable before it is spent. This reference is generated from the scope inventory, which is generated from source, so a capability cannot be described here in terms the code does not use.
Source records and audit limits
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| Record | Count | What it does and does not prove |
|---|---|---|
| Catalogue capabilities | 114 | Recorded in the catalogue. Being catalogued proves only that the capability was researched and priced on a date, not that it can run. |
| With a verified quantity-bound adapter | 55 of 114 | Can actually be executed and billed with a bounded quantity. Everything else is a plan, not a capability. |
| Acquisition parameters enforced by the query contract | 36 of 55 | The collector reads its parameters from the frozen contract, so two brands and two runs are asked the same question. This is the only set for which the comparability guarantee holds. |
| Issues no request of its own | 7 of 55 | Derived from the evidence public_html already fetched under its frozen parameters. They add no request and therefore no acquisition parameter of their own. |
| Contract described but not read | 12 of 55 | Since v5 (2026-09-25): the twelve free public-presence sources. Their request bounds are constants inside each collector, not read from this contract; the contract records what they ask and that paid-provider keys are withheld from them (planned-pull-stage.mjs publicSourceEnv). Everything else executable is enforced or derived. |
| Price status known | 102 of 114 | A published or measured rate is recorded. An unknown price stays unknown and is never treated as zero. |
| Registered providers | 21 | Registered in the runtime. Registration does not prove a credential is present, a route is reachable, or a lane has ever been exercised. |
Query contract version 24, hash 73967f13a2a325183eea2b32144ff3178fe8f9654de36562dca72058ce364fe4. Two pulls are comparable only when their recorded contract version, hash, market and row allowance all match.
This reference describes acquisition. It is not evidence that any lane has run, that a section is good, or that a cost was actually incurred. Provider cost, provider account balance movement and customer credit price are three different values and are never collapsed into one here.
Coverage by provider
| Provider and module | Catalogued | Runnable |
|---|---|---|
| ai_models · base | 1 | 1 |
| dataforseo · ai | 10 | 0 |
| dataforseo · base | 34 | 18 |
| firecrawl · ai | 3 | 0 |
| firecrawl · base | 5 | 1 |
| model_provider_unresolved · model | 1 | 0 |
| public_or_local · base | 31 | 20 |
| scrapecreators · ai | 1 | 0 |
| scrapecreators · base | 26 | 15 |
| serpapi · ai | 1 | 0 |
| serpapi · base | 1 | 0 |
Every capability
| Capability | Provider | Runnable | Billing | Price | Query contract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google AI Mode | dataforseo | No | prompt_sample | known | Not contracted |
| Paid async AI Overview collection | dataforseo | No | linear | known | Not contracted |
| Incidental AI Overview metadata | dataforseo | No | free | known | Not contracted |
| Modeled AI keyword volume | dataforseo | No | paged | known | Not contracted |
| Public app-store lookup | public_or_local | Yes | free | known | Declarative |
| Apple Podcasts public lookup | public_or_local | Yes | free | known | Declarative |
| Backlink summary | dataforseo | Yes | paged | known | Enforced |
| Backlink rows | dataforseo | Yes | paged | known | Enforced |
| Bluesky public evidence | public_or_local | Yes | free | known | Declarative |
| Logos, colors & font evidence | public_or_local | Yes | free | known | Derived |
| Business listing evidence | dataforseo | Yes | paged | known | Enforced |
| Confirmed Google business profile | dataforseo | Yes | linear | known | Enforced |
| Search-overlap competitors | dataforseo | Yes | paged | known | Enforced |
| Basic website crawl | dataforseo | Yes | linear | known | Enforced |
| Crawl with JavaScript | dataforseo | No | linear | known | Not contracted |
| Browser-rendered crawl | dataforseo | No | linear | known | Not contracted |
| Crawl with resources | dataforseo | No | linear | known | Not contracted |
| crt.sh certificate references | public_or_local | Yes | free | known | Declarative |
| Public CrUX field metrics | public_or_local | No | free | known | Not contracted |
| Derived domain summary and deduplication | public_or_local | Yes | free | known | Derived |
| Employer public evidence | public_or_local | No | free | known | Not contracted |
| Firecrawl agent | firecrawl | No | unknown | unpriced | Not contracted |
| Firecrawl change-tracking reuse | public_or_local | No | free | known | Not contracted |
| Firecrawl browser interaction | firecrawl | No | fc_browser | known | Not contracted |
| Firecrawl structured extraction | firecrawl | No | fc_credits | known | Not contracted |
| Firecrawl map | firecrawl | No | unknown | unpriced | Not contracted |
| Firecrawl monitoring checks | firecrawl | No | fc_monitor | known | Not contracted |
| Firecrawl page extraction | firecrawl | Yes | fc_credits | known | Enforced |
| Firecrawl search | firecrawl | No | fc_blocks | known | Not contracted |
| Firecrawl X/Grok extraction | firecrawl | No | fc_credits | known | Not contracted |
| GDELT · conditional | public_or_local | Yes | free | known | Declarative |
| Google Ads metrics refresh | dataforseo | No | paged | known | Not contracted |
| Hacker News · conditional | public_or_local | Yes | free | known | Declarative |
| Historical bulk traffic estimates | dataforseo | No | paged | known | Not contracted |
| Historical domain overview | dataforseo | No | task_items | known | Not contracted |
| Historical SERP snapshots | dataforseo | No | linear | known | Not contracted |
| Reuse existing intent signals | public_or_local | Yes | free | known | Derived |
| Missing-keyword comparisons | dataforseo | Yes | paged | known | Enforced |
| Keyword ideas | dataforseo | No | paged | known | Not contracted |
| Seed keyword suggestions | dataforseo | No | paged | known | Not contracted |
| Keywords suggested for site | dataforseo | No | paged | known | Not contracted |
| Hosted Lighthouse audits | dataforseo | Yes | linear | known | Enforced |
| LLM Mentions target/multi-target metrics | dataforseo | No | unknown | unpriced | Not contracted |
| LLM Mentions history/trends | dataforseo | No | unknown | unpriced | Not contracted |
| LLM Mentions Lite/top lists | dataforseo | No | unknown | unpriced | Not contracted |
| LLM Mentions search | dataforseo | No | unknown | unpriced | Not contracted |
| Model API responses via DataForSEO | dataforseo | No | token_variable | partial | Not contracted |
| ChatGPT/Gemini UI-response sample | dataforseo | No | prompt_sample | known | Not contracted |
| Local open-source Lighthouse | public_or_local | No | free | known | Not contracted |
| Manual public ad-library / search / trend links | public_or_local | No | free | known | Not contracted |
| Local business discovery | dataforseo | Yes | blocks | known | Enforced |
| Meta Ad Library public links | public_or_local | No | free | known | Not contracted |
| Google News RSS references | public_or_local | Yes | free | known | Declarative |
| Deep organic pagination | dataforseo | No | unknown | unpriced | Not contracted |
| Search-operator surcharge | dataforseo | No | organic_addon | known | Not contracted |
| People Also Ask expansion clicks | dataforseo | No | linear | known | Not contracted |
| SERP element rectangles | dataforseo | No | organic_addon | known | Not contracted |
| Brand-name search results | dataforseo | Yes | method_tasks | known | Enforced |
| Own organic ranking keywords | dataforseo | Yes | paged | known | Enforced |
| PageSpeed public inspection | public_or_local | No | free | known | Not contracted |
| Public HTML / metadata / contact evidence | public_or_local | Yes | free | known | Enforced |
| Ranking pages | dataforseo | Yes | paged | known | Enforced |
| Public Reddit references | public_or_local | No | free | known | Not contracted |
| Referring domains | dataforseo | Yes | paged | known | Enforced |
| Related keywords | dataforseo | No | paged | known | Not contracted |
| Ordinary Google reviews | dataforseo | Yes | blocks | known | Enforced |
| Extended Google reviews | dataforseo | Yes | blocks | assumption | Enforced |
| Selected rival ranking exports | dataforseo | Yes | paged | known | Enforced |
| Robots and sitemap evidence | public_or_local | Yes | free | known | Derived |
| Facebook public posts page | scrapecreators | Yes | sc_credits | known | Enforced |
| Facebook profile/page | scrapecreators | Yes | sc_credits | known | Enforced |
| Creator social-profile finder | scrapecreators | No | sc_credits | known | Not contracted |
| Google selected ad detail | scrapecreators | No | sc_credits | known | Not contracted |
| Google company ad IDs | scrapecreators | Yes | sc_credits | known | Enforced |
| Google ad bulk details | scrapecreators | No | unknown | unpriced | Not contracted |
| Instagram post/reel detail | scrapecreators | No | sc_credits | known | Not contracted |
| Instagram posts/reels page | scrapecreators | Yes | sc_credits | known | Enforced |
| Instagram profile | scrapecreators | Yes | sc_credits | known | Enforced |
| Instagram transcript | scrapecreators | No | sc_credits | known | Not contracted |
| LinkedIn ad search | scrapecreators | No | sc_credits | known | Not contracted |
| LinkedIn company posts page | scrapecreators | Yes | sc_credits | known | Enforced |
| LinkedIn company | scrapecreators | Yes | sc_credits | known | Enforced |
| Meta selected ad detail | scrapecreators | No | sc_credits | known | Not contracted |
| Meta company ad page | scrapecreators | Yes | sc_credits | known | Enforced |
| Meta ad-search page | scrapecreators | No | sc_credits | known | Not contracted |
| TikTok ad-library search | scrapecreators | No | sc_credits | known | Not contracted |
| TikTok video detail | scrapecreators | No | sc_credits | known | Not contracted |
| TikTok videos page | scrapecreators | Yes | sc_credits | known | Enforced |
| TikTok profile | scrapecreators | Yes | sc_credits | known | Enforced |
| X popular posts | scrapecreators | Yes | sc_credits | known | Enforced |
| X profile | scrapecreators | Yes | sc_credits | known | Enforced |
| YouTube video detail | scrapecreators | No | sc_credits | known | Not contracted |
| YouTube channel videos page | scrapecreators | Yes | sc_credits | known | Enforced |
| YouTube channel | scrapecreators | Yes | sc_credits | known | Enforced |
| YouTube channel Shorts page | scrapecreators | Yes | sc_credits | known | Enforced |
| YouTube available captions | scrapecreators | No | sc_credits | known | Not contracted |
| Keyword intent classification | dataforseo | No | paged | known | Not contracted |
| SEC filings · conditional | public_or_local | Yes | free | known | Declarative |
| SerpAPI AI Overview alternative | serpapi | No | serp_searches | known | Not contracted |
| SerpAPI search/page alternative | serpapi | No | serp_searches | known | Not contracted |
| Public identity & site parsing | public_or_local | Yes | free | known | Derived |
| Schema / Open Graph / canonical / social links | public_or_local | Yes | free | known | Derived |
| Target technology/contact evidence | dataforseo | Yes | linear | assumption | Enforced |
| Trustpilot public references | public_or_local | No | free | known | Not contracted |
| Twitch public references | public_or_local | Yes | free | known | Declarative |
| USPTO · conditional | public_or_local | No | free | known | Not contracted |
| Visible-site SEO evidence | public_or_local | Yes | free | known | Derived |
| Brand voice / quality / visual review | model_provider_unresolved | No | unknown | unpriced | Not contracted |
| How the brand sounds (voice) | ai_models | Yes | linear | known | Enforced |
| Wayback history references | public_or_local | Yes | free | known | Declarative |
| Indexed web citations | dataforseo | Yes | paged | known | Enforced |
| Wikidata entity lookup | public_or_local | Yes | free | known | Declarative |
| Wikipedia references | public_or_local | Yes | free | known | Declarative |
| YouTube / oEmbed / yt-dlp public evidence | public_or_local | No | free | known | Not contracted |