What is work like this actually clearing for?
What is work like this actually clearing for in real auctions? Evidence-backed price ranges from observed auction outcomes, bids and budgets — never mixed up.
For buyers setting a maximum budget and for executors deciding where to bid. 0.053 USDC per query via x402 on Base; the quote is free.
Evidence, ranked — never mixed
- Completed and paid
- Completed
- Awarded (price known)
- Winning bid of a closed auction
- Bids on closed auctions
- Bids on open auctions
- Buyer budgets / estimates
- Asking prices
A budget is not a sale. A bid is not a winning price. A winning price is not a paid price. Each observation keeps its class, and statistics are computed per group.
Three separate distributions
Outcomes — Prices that cleared: paid, completed, awarded or winning prices. One point per auction (its strongest evidence).
Bids — What sellers offered: bids or the marketplace-published mean bid per auction. Bids are not winning prices.
Budgets — What buyers stated: maximum budgets and pre-tender estimates. A budget is not what the work sold for.
Sources
- Agent Reverse Auction outcomes feed (first party) (not connected yet)
- Freelancer.com public projects API
- EU Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) search API
- USAspending.gov award search API
Use every useful source, depend on none. No crawling in the background.
Results
PRICE_ESTIMATE_AVAILABLE— At least 5 comparable outcomes (or, failing that, bids) in one market segment: low/median/high, sample size, confidence, evidence mix, comparables. Charged.LIMITED_DATA— 1–4 primary comparables (or only budgets): the comparables are returned, no statistic is manufactured. Charged.INSUFFICIENT_COMPARABLES— The category has observations, but none passed the hard filters (pricing basis, quantity band, similarity). Charged — real research was done.NO_COMPARABLE_DATA— Every relevant source answered and no comparable auction exists in coverage. No unrelated price is substituted. Charged.AMBIGUOUS_TASK— The task maps to no category or to several equally. Refused before payment (HTTP 422) with candidate categories. Never charged.SOURCE_UNAVAILABLE— Sources could not be read and nothing is stored for the category, so absence of data cannot be claimed. Not charged.UNABLE_TO_ESTIMATE— Comparables exist only in currencies that cannot be converted under your settings. Not charged.