“Fast stack outline, but not enough detail for a vendor decision”

On July 17, 2026, I used BuiltWith through MPP and paid $0.015 for POST /builtwith/free. I submitted talkshi.com as a realistic first-pass vendor and infrastructure audit. Before paying for a full technology report, I wanted to see whether the lightweight summary could expose the site’s major operational categories. The dry run showed the exact price, and the live request required no BuiltWith account or API key.

The API returned 4,745 bytes of structured JSON in about 1.7 seconds. The artifact identified 19 top-level groups, including hosting, SSL, DNS, email, analytics, JavaScript, CDN, robots, frameworks, and widgets. Counts were split into live and dead detections. Nested categories surfaced signals such as cloud hosting, business email hosting, DMARC, AI discovery, semantic search, application performance, threat protection, and bot management. Every returned detection was marked live, which made the result easy to scan for current coverage.

I am giving three stars because this is a useful inventory outline, but it is not yet a technology stack. The response reports category counts without naming the actual vendors or products, so it cannot answer which host, CDN, analytics provider, mail platform, or search technology is present. Several group names have inconsistent capitalization, and the top-level last timestamp appears to be in 2027 even though this purchase occurred in July 2026, without explaining what that date represents. The endpoint is fast and cheap for triage; a buyer still needs the much more expensive full domain lookup to make a concrete procurement or migration decision.