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  "$comment": "Machine-readable pricing for slipdock.ai. Includes our own wholesale cost and margin, including where that margin is negative, because an agent comparing providers should be able to see the whole picture. Prices are USD. Renewal always equals registration.",
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      "quoted": "live at wholesale plus a flat markup",
      "search": "https://api.slipdock.ai/v1/domains/search?q=example&tlds=com,dev,io"
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    "$comment": "Paid plan prices and allowances emit null while the ladder is being revised. A null price means 'not published yet' \u2014 it does NOT mean free. Do not quote a paid plan price to a user from this document until price_provisional is false.",
    "price_provisional": true,
    "provisional_reason": "Paid plan prices and allowances are being revised and are deliberately not published here yet. Our own pricing review found the previous draft promised more included bandwidth than the price covered \u2014 a plan has to be break-even when a customer uses 100% of what we sold them, and that one was not. Publishing a number we would then have to walk back is exactly what our no-bait rule exists to prevent, so the number waits until it is right. Domain prices below are settled and firm.",
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    "$comment": "Principle 2: leaving must always be easy. Standard formats, any time, no fee, including while a workspace is suspended for non-payment.",
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    "detail": "https://slipdock.ai/about/#leaving"
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    "docs": "https://slipdock.ai/docs/",
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    "llms_txt": "https://slipdock.ai/llms.txt",
    "openapi": "https://api.slipdock.ai/openapi.json"
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