Practical guides
Regional software prices in one AI answer
Match a pricing answer to the vendor offer for the same region, currency and eligibility.
A sampled pricing answer needs a market before its amount can be set beside a regional software offer.
The provisional scan samples up to two responses and treats findings as potential. A region sheet is how you tell whether a vendor page describes the same market as the reply.
Identify one implied market
Read the prompt and the reply together. The question may name a country, or the reply may name a market without saying how it was chosen. If neither settles a region, write unknown. Do not assign the currency's most familiar country.
One response describes only what you saw on that product surface at that time. It does not establish which prices would be shown to every buyer, or in every country.
The pricing-answer evidence guide covers how to capture the reply. Keep the prompt, the full response, the observation time and timezone, the product surface and the citations as displayed before you compare.
Record the market conditions
On the vendor page, record the region control, the shipping or billing country if it is shown, the currency, the tax display and who may buy. Also keep the plan, the unit and the billing interval so the market comparison does not mix different offers.
| Field | Why it belongs on the sheet |
|---|---|
| Region control | Names the selected market when the page shows one |
| Shipping or billing country | Records a country condition where one is shown |
| Currency and tax display | Keeps the stated amount with the tax presentation |
| Who may buy | Records the eligibility the page states |
| Plan, unit and interval | Keeps the offer you are comparing the same offer |
Copy what the page displays, not what you expect a selector to contain. If the page does not reveal a country condition or eligibility, record unknown. A missing field can block a confident market match.
The same currency can cover different markets
A USD figure captured for a US offer is not evidence of the USD figure shown to another country. A shared currency label does not establish the region, the eligibility or the tax display of the second offer.
The currency and billing-period guide covers a different split: currency and billing interval are different fields. Here the question is whether the page is describing the same market or a different one.
Do not convert one currency and call the result the vendor's price in another market. A converted figure is arithmetic on an input, not a vendor observation. Get a source for the relevant market, or leave its amount unknown.
| Row | What to copy | What it can settle |
|---|---|---|
| Answer | Exact wording and date | Which claim the reply supports |
| US page | Visible terms and their context | Whether the scope matches |
| Second market | Conditions that are available | What is still unknown |
Keep the reply, the US page and the second market on separate rows. For each, write the text or the figure, the date, and the source. Then name the region, currency, unit, interval and eligibility. A shared number is only the start. The unit and the conditions decide what the number describes. Mark a field unknown when the source you have does not establish it.
Connect each conclusion to the row that supports it. Check the source and its scope before you move a value. A document can answer one part and leave another open. It can name an amount and still say nothing about eligibility, or about how a different document treats that amount. Keep the wording beside the value.
If two captures share a currency and not a market, leave them on separate rows. Do not convert one figure and file the result as the vendor's price for the other country. The region control, the tax display and who may buy are part of the offer.
Before you compare the markets, confirm both pages name the same plan, unit and interval. If the second market was not captured, that price stays unknown. A USD amount saved for one country is not evidence of the USD amount shown somewhere else.
Compare fictional markets
A fictional vendor page shows USD 20 per user per month for a US offer. A reply quotes USD 20 with no region, and a second country's displayed amount is not available. This amount and this scenario are invented.
The page supports an observation about the US offer it showed, at the time you looked. It does not establish what the vendor shows to the second country, even if that country also uses USD on its page. Record the missing country selection and the missing eligibility.
If a later capture shows a second market, compare its plan, unit, interval, currency, tax and eligibility with the first capture. If any field differs, describe the offers separately before you calculate a difference. A later capture cannot fill in an earlier page state.
The first row of the fictional sheet is the US page. Its amount is USD 20, the unit is one user, and the rate is expressed per month. The page is identified as a US offer in the example. Those fields support a statement about the offer shown in that market at the time of observation. They do not establish the purchase terms for an account in another country, or whether a different region selector was available.
The reply row contains the same USD 20 amount and does not name a region. Currency is a field in the reply. Market is a separate field. Matching the currency and the number to the US page is a useful lead. It does not establish that the reply meant the US offer. The fictional reply also leaves its unit and billing context to be checked against the full response and the prompt. Keep any missing field marked unknown.
The second-country row has no observed amount. That is not a zero price, and it is not evidence that the vendor has no offer there. It means the comparison cannot yet say what the vendor displays in that market. Do not copy the US figure into the second row, even if the second market also uses USD. A shared currency says nothing by itself about market eligibility, local tax presentation or a country-specific condition.
If a second page is captured later, add the country selection, the observation time and the visible amount as a new row. Check whether the plan, the user definition and the billing interval match the first offer. Also record whether the page displays tax and whether it states who can buy. A difference in any of those fields can matter even when the displayed numbers happen to match. Keep the page states as separate observations.
Suppose the later page has no country control. The absence of a visible selector does not establish that its price applies everywhere. Record the address, the context that was visible, and the missing selection. A billing country mentioned at checkout is not automatically the same as a market inferred from the currency symbol. The evidence that counts is the condition actually shown for the offer under review.
The conclusion should follow the rows you have. Here it can say that a US page shows the fictional amount and that the reply did not name a region. It cannot say what a second country was offered, or that the reply misquoted that country. If the prompt names a country, keep that detail too. It changes the question being checked. It does not supply the missing vendor observation.
The timing of the two market observations is another field. Even if both pages are eventually available, a later second-country capture does not prove the amount displayed there when the first page was observed. Record each timestamp and keep the selected state. If the two observations cannot be aligned in time or in scope, describe them as two separate offers and do not assign a cause to the difference.
Questions
Does USD identify the US market?
No. Currency alone does not establish the country, the eligibility or the tax display of an offer.
Can I convert a US price to find another market price?
A conversion does not establish the amount the vendor displays in another market. Use evidence for that market.
What if the answer does not name a region?
Record the region as unknown and keep the prompt and the reply. Do not assume a market from the currency alone.