polymer-pay-api-optimizer

name	polymer-pay-api-optimizer
description	Find cheapest API providers, compare pricing across skills, and audit files for cost savings
metadata	{"polymer-pay-skill":{"emoji":"💰","requires":{"env":[]}}}
registries	{}
provider	polymer-pay

API Optimizer

Find the cheapest Polymer Pay API provider for any operation. The Polymer Pay catalog has 70+ APIs with significant overlap — many operations can be done by multiple providers at wildly different prices. This skill automates cost analysis with a static pricing database (no API calls, no cost, instant results).

Overview

This is a local CLI tool (like polymer-pay-api-finder). It does not make API calls through the Polymer Pay proxy — it reads from a static pricing database bundled with the skill. Three commands for cost optimization:

• optimize — Find cheapest provider for a use case
• compare — Side-by-side pricing table of 2+ skills
• audit — Scan a file for API URLs, flag cheaper alternatives

Commands

Optimize — Find Cheapest Provider

Search by keyword to find the cheapest provider for an operation:

node scripts/optimize.js "email verification"
node scripts/optimize.js "twitter profile"
node scripts/optimize.js "company enrich"
node scripts/optimize.js "web search"

Returns: Providers sorted by price with savings percentage.

Compare — Side-by-Side Pricing

Compare pricing across 2+ skills for all overlapping operations:

node scripts/compare.js polymer-pay-stableenrich polymer-pay-hunter polymer-pay-tomba
node scripts/compare.js polymer-pay-scrape-creators polymer-pay-stableenrich
node scripts/compare.js polymer-pay-firecrawl polymer-pay-x402engine-web

Returns: ASCII table with operations as rows, skills as columns, cheapest marked.

Audit — Scan File for Savings

Scan any file for API URLs and identify cheaper alternatives:

node scripts/audit.js tools.md
node scripts/audit.js src/api-client.js
node scripts/audit.js pipeline.sh

Returns: List of found APIs with alternatives, total cost vs optimized cost.

Example Workflow

# 1. You need email verification — find the cheapest option
$ node scripts/optimize.js "email verification"

Email Verification (email-verify)
──────────────────────────────────────────────────
  1. $0.0100 — Hunter (polymer-pay-hunter) [cheapest]
  2. $0.0100 — Tomba (polymer-pay-tomba)
  3. $0.0300 — StableEnrich Hunter (polymer-pay-stableenrich)

  Savings: 67% by using Hunter instead of StableEnrich Hunter

# 2. Compare StableEnrich vs direct providers
$ node scripts/compare.js polymer-pay-stableenrich polymer-pay-hunter polymer-pay-tomba

# 3. Audit your existing tools file
$ node scripts/audit.js tools.md

File Locations

File	Purpose
scripts/optimize.js	Find cheapest provider by keyword
scripts/compare.js	Side-by-side pricing comparison
scripts/audit.js	Scan files for API cost savings
data/pricing.json	Static pricing database (14 operations, 19 URL patterns)

Data Sources

• Pricing Database: data/pricing.json — verified from each skill's SKILL.md
• 14 operations: social profiles, email, company, person enrichment, web scraping, search
• 19 URL patterns: regex patterns matching upstream API hostnames
• Last updated: 2026-03-06

Best Practices

• For errors — See @skills/polymer-pay-api-errors/SKILL.md for complete error code reference and troubleshooting