What is the smallest thing that actually fits?

This is intentionally anti-upsell. It can tell you to use a free tool, buy a smaller license, or not buy anything. Your answers stay in this browser.

1. Which problems are actually in scope?

Testing, replay & failure recovery Provenance, handoffs & authority tracking Memory, privacy & stale-authority boundaries One failed run, retry safety & duplicate-effect risk

2. What do you need right now?

3. If a reusable artifact is involved

UsePeople who need rightsDeliverable shape

A larger team never gets squeezed into a smaller published license. If no standard tier fits, the result says so.

Rules this router cannot override

free may be the final answer
price only breaks ties among already-eligible offers; it never justifies a higher rung
declared rights/team size are hard license constraints
teams above a published max are never routed into a smaller tier
the $1,250 Authority Transition Test is never the first purchase; the $250 snapshot is the prerequisite
recurring monitoring is not sold while recurring_readiness is ineligible

Machine-readable matrix: smallest-sufficient-router.json