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EcomIQX Plans Compared: Free, Pro, Business, and Scale

Which plan fits your catalog size, team, and optimization goals. A decision framework beyond the feature matrix.

Beyond the Feature Matrix: A Decision Framework

Pricing pages list features. But what you really need is: "Which plan is right for MY business?" This guide answers that by use case, not by feature checklist. Plan prices and limits below are read from the same configuration the product uses, so they match the pricing page.

Free Plan: Solo Founder Testing

Who It Is For

  • Solo founder or small store owner (you run the store, you do the marketing)
  • Small to mid-size catalog (free imports up to 25,000 products)
  • Want to test if product optimization moves the needle before committing to paid
  • Limited budget for tools

What You Can Accomplish

  • Import up to 25,000 products (XML, CSV, Shopify, WooCommerce, or any custom platform)
  • See content health scores for your entire catalog
  • Use 30 credits/month on AI rewrites (titles, descriptions, meta, alt text)
  • Understand which categories are weak (title, description, specs, keywords, etc.)

Example

Take a hypothetical store that sells handmade candles. You import the catalog and find that scores are low, mostly because descriptions lack key details such as materials, burn time and scent profile. You use your monthly credits to rewrite your top-sellers, then compare those products against products you left alone. If the rewritten products do better, you have your evidence to upgrade.

When to Upgrade

When you have used your monthly credits and want more capacity for ongoing optimization.

Pro Plan: Established Store, Scaling Rewrites ($99/month)

Who It Is For

  • Established ecommerce store with a catalog too large to rewrite by hand
  • A person who works on product content regularly
  • Want AI-assisted rewrites + keyword data
  • Need data to justify continued optimization investment

What You Can Accomplish

  • 1,500 credits/month for AI rewrites, meta generation, alt text, and Copilot
  • Keyword intelligence with search volume data
  • Google Search Console integration for real search data
  • Keyword gap analysis (high-volume queries you miss)
  • Copilot included for conversational catalog intelligence

Example

Take a hypothetical outdoor gear store with a part-time content person. With Pro, she runs AI-assisted optimizations from her credit pool and measures the result in Google Search Console and GA4. When the numbers show the work earns more than it costs, you can justify giving her more hours.

When to Upgrade

When you want automation (agents to handle rewrites without manual intervention) or you are expanding into new markets (need translations). Or when you want revenue attribution to prove ROI to stakeholders.

Business Plan: Scaling Team, Proving ROI ($299/month)

Who It Is For

  • Growing ecommerce business with a large catalog
  • One or more people dedicated to content optimization
  • Need autonomous agents to handle volume
  • MUST prove ROI to justify continued spend
  • Want to expand into secondary markets (translations)

What You Can Accomplish

  • 5,000 credits/month for all AI actions from one unified pool
  • Autonomous agents (Content Optimizer, Language Expander, Catalog Health Monitor)
  • Attribution Dashboard (estimated revenue impact per optimization type)
  • Measured tests: opt-in tests that compare changed products with a holdout group
  • Up to 3 agents active at once
  • Translations: up to 5 languages

Example

Take a hypothetical home goods store whose content person can only rewrite a handful of products a month while most of the catalog scores poorly. At that pace the backlog never clears. With the Content Optimizer agent, rewrites are proposed against your credit pool and reviewed in a queue, and the Attribution Dashboard shows what changed in revenue. That is the evidence the team needs to keep going.

When to Upgrade

When you need more credits, more simultaneously active agents, or more languages than Business allows.

Scale Plan: Large Catalog Operations ($699/month)

Who It Is For

  • Large ecommerce operations with a catalog operations team
  • Multiple markets (translations at scale)
  • Many connectors and agents running at the same time

What You Can Accomplish

  • 20,000 credits/month
  • Unlimited active agents
  • Up to 10 translation languages
  • Up to 10 concurrent measured tests
  • Unlimited connectors and up to 5 supplemental feeds
  • API access

Example

Take a hypothetical fashion marketplace with many brands and a team that manages content in several languages. The team runs Content Optimizer and Language Expander together, reviews proposals in batches, and uses attribution to decide where to spend credits next.

When to Move to Enterprise

Custom pricing when you need unique requirements: dedicated instance, custom deployment, or advanced feature development.

Enterprise: Custom Pricing

Who It Is For

  • Self-hosted deployments (your data stays on your servers)
  • Custom feature development
  • Dedicated infrastructure and support

What Is Included

  • Unlimited products & credits
  • Unlimited keyword research
  • Unlimited translation languages
  • Unlimited automations, experiments & connectors
  • Unlimited supplemental feeds
  • Full Command Center dashboard
  • Self-hosted deployment option
  • Dedicated account manager
  • Custom brand voice training
  • Priority support & SLA
  • SSO & audit logs
  • Custom API rate limits

Decision Matrix: Quick Reference

Criteria Free Pro Business Scale
Team Size Solo One person, part-time or more One or more people A catalog operations team
Key Feature Score everything Credits + Copilot Credits + agents Credits + unlimited agents
Credits/Month 30 1,500 5,000 20,000
Cost/Month $0 $99/month $299/month $699/month

Upgrade Triggers Checklist

From Free to Pro

  • You have validated that rewrites improve organic traffic and conversions
  • You have used your monthly credits and want significantly more capacity
  • You need keyword data to inform rewrites (Google Search Console + search volume data)

From Pro to Business

  • You want hands-off automation (agents doing rewrites without you)
  • You need to prove ROI to stakeholders (Attribution Dashboard)
  • You want to expand to new markets (translations)
  • You cannot scale rewrites manually

From Business to Scale

  • You need more credits, more agents or more languages than Business allows
  • You are operating multiple markets and need more translation languages
  • You run many connectors and supplemental feeds

Final Recommendation

Start with Free. Test the platform. Use your monthly credits on your worst-scoring products. If you see positive impact on traffic and conversions, upgrade to Pro for more credits and Copilot access. Once you have evidence that optimization works, upgrade to Business. Business is where agents take over and scale becomes automatic.

Most successful ecommerce stores follow this path: Free, then Pro, then Business as the evidence builds.

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