VendorIndex

• list_categories — List every vendor category VendorIndex covers (e.g. transactional-email, llm-models, embeddings-apis, llm-gateways), each with its use cases and vendor count. C
• get_category_ranking — Get the ranked vendors for a category, scored per use case (deterministic, from verified pricing + agent-friction + health). Omit use_case to get the ranking fo
• recommend — Recommend the top vendors for a specific category + use case, with the reasoning (which dimensions drove the pick). Best when an agent needs a single answer to
• get_vendor — Full detail for one vendor: cited pricing (structured rates + source URL + verified date + confidence), agent-friction checks, SDKs, capabilities, portability a
• compare_vendors — Side-by-side comparison of several vendors for one category + use case: weighted totals, per-dimension scores and health trend. Use for head-to-head questions.
• search_vendors — Find vendors by free-text query across name, id, category and capability (e.g. 'embedding', 'soc2', 'fast_inference'). Returns matches with their categories.

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