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Last9 vs Marqo

Last9 scores higher on the AgentReady, 48/100 against 38/100. They differ on 14 of the 41 signals. Which ones decides whether an agent can adopt them without a person watching.

What each one is

Last9. Last9 is an observability platform for logs, metrics, and traces.

Marqo. Marqo is a search and product discovery platform built for ecommerce that uses LLM-based retrieval to continuously learn from shopper behavior and surface relevant, high-converting products.

Where Last9 is ahead

Last9 passes clear canonical domain, clear product positioning, llms.txt published, llms-full.txt / full agent docs and mcp discoverable, and Marqo does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.

It also holds adopt: agent-compatible signup flow, copyable quickstart and mcp integration available. Marqo misses those.

And on operate, agent compatibility verified. Marqo misses it.

Where Marqo is ahead

Marqo passes search discoverable, and Last9 does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.

It also holds understand: structured api reference and pricing understandable. Last9 misses those.

And on adopt, free trial or free allowance. Last9 misses it.

Finally, on operate, observable execution. Last9 misses it.

What neither does

Both fail openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented, self-service signup, no mandatory sales call, programmatic credential creation, fast time to first request, cli available, structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable. If your agent needs any of those, you will be building it yourself either way.

Score, pillar by pillar

The AgentReady splits into four pillars, scored separately, because a product can be easy to find and still impossible to adopt.

Discover is whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists. Last9 leads 87 to 53. Last9 misses search discoverable; Marqo misses clear canonical domain, clear product positioning, llms.txt published, llms-full.txt / full agent docs, mcp discoverable.

Understand. Marqo leads 38 to 15. Last9 misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, pricing understandable, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented; Marqo misses openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented.

Adopt. Last9 leads 50 to 25. Last9 misses self-service signup, no mandatory sales call, programmatic credential creation, free trial or free allowance, fast time to first request, cli available; Marqo misses self-service signup, no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, fast time to first request, copyable quickstart, cli available, mcp integration available.

Operate. Last9 leads 41 to 35. Last9 misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, observable execution; Marqo misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified.

Pricing

Last9 does not publish a machine-readable starting price. Marqo does not publish one with no free tier.

Signal by signal

Which to pick

Last9 clears more of the signals an agent needs, so it is the safer default for unattended use. Full profiles: Last9 and Marqo. Alternatives to each: Last9, Marqo.

An agent can fetch this as data: POST /v1/compare {"slugs": ["last9", "marqo"]}