Chart-making report agents are everywhere; what they actually pay for retrieval is almost never disclosed
Asked:
“Which companies or teams are building AI agents that generate reports with charts today, and what do they currently pay for data or retrieval APIs?”
An evidence-ranked shortlist of 30 product rows — not every company in existence — covering 10 builder families (plus the open and research implementations behind the pricing evidence), compiled as of 10 October 2026 from many independent hosts; no single URL supports more than half the rows. 87 price observations tie verified retrieval integrations to Exa, Tavily, Serper and Jina public list prices; the prices use different billing units and are not directly comparable.
The landscape: who ships charts in reports, and who names a data provider
named data or retrieval provider — actual spend still undisclosedno third-party provider disclosedoutput type not evidenced
Warning: none of these prices is what a builder actually pays. Every figure on this page is a public list price or a verified integration; no customer-level retrieval or data-API spend was found publicly disclosed for any of the 30 rows.
Every one of the 10 builder families ships report or research output with charts, and 7 of 10 also ship dashboards — but 12 of 30 product rows disclose no third-party retrieval provider at all. openai.com
The only transparent third-party retrieval stacks are open or research builds: MiroMind exposes Serper for search and Jina for extraction, NJUNLP’s CogGen requires Tavily, and Arkel.ai’s Deep Research requires Exa. github.com
Exa’s list rates span $2.50 per 1,000 keyword searches to $12–$15 per 1,000 deep searches, with $1 per 1,000 retrieved pages and a $10 monthly free credit. docs.exa.ai
Tavily gives 1,000 free credits a month and about $8 per 1,000 pay-as-you-go credits with monthly tiers from $30; Serper sits near $0.30–$1.00 per 1,000 searches; Jina’s cited Grounding API page lists $0.02 per 1M tokens with a 1M-token free key. firecrawl.dev
What the list prices say — units differ, do not compare across cards
All 62 distinct price observations (deduplicated from 87)
All 30 shortlist rows
Builder
Agent
Visual report capability
Named data / retrieval source
Spend status
Source
Method: 30 evidence-ranked product rows on report/chart agents (builder, agent, capability, named providers, spend status, source URL) plus 87 provider-price observations for Exa, Tavily, Serper and Jina tied to verified integrations; compiled from web research as of 2026-10-10. Prices are public list prices in US dollars at the stated billing units; repeated identical observations were deduplicated to 62 for display. Actual negotiated enterprise prices, internal infrastructure cost, model-token cost and content-licensing deals are outside scope. Long capability text is truncated in the table; full rows are at the linked sources.