Shugou pricing is scoped to your annual sourcing volume — factory count, SKU breadth, and shipment cadence — not sold like a SaaS seat license. Most procurement leads we onboard are moving $1.2M–$14M in FOB spend through the platform per year. The demo is a procurement-scope conversation, not a sales call.
2,400+ sourcing teams · 1.4M+ verified Chinese factories indexed
Independently benchmarked across 320 client teams · supplier vetting cycle cut from 11 days → 38 minutes.
Plans are anchored to your annual FOB spend and team size, not headcount seats. The figures below are starting bands — your procurement-scope conversation refines them.
DTC brands shipping 1–4 containers / quarter
Sourcing teams moving 8–30 containers / quarter
Aggregators & brands running 30+ containers / quarter
Every plan ships with the verified-factory index, the 11-year FOB dataset, and Trust Index scoring. The differentiator is volume and integration depth — not feature gating.
A single DTC SKU — 4,000-unit run of PET bottles sourced from Yiwu. Baseline numbers reflect an unsanctioned Alibaba listing and a freight forwarder picked on price. Shugou numbers reflect an A+-rated supplier from our verified index, with FOB benchmarked against 11 years of history.
| Line item | Baseline sourcing | Sourcing on Shugou |
|---|---|---|
| Unit FOB | $3.12 | $2.38 |
| FOB sub-total | $12,480 | $9,520 |
| Defect rate (allowance) | 6.8% · $849 | 2.1% · $200 |
| Air-freight top-up | $2,100 | $0 |
| On-time shipment factor | 0.86 | 0.99 |
| Inventory carrying delta | $1,640 | $240 |
| Landed cost | $9,960 | |
| Delta vs. baseline · −$7,109 on this PO · 14.8% landed-cost savings | ||
Eight capabilities, scoped honestly. No row-gating to force upgrades you don't need.
| Capability | Starter | Growth | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verified factory index (1.4M+) | Full | Full | Full + private clusters |
| Vetting lookups per month | 50 | 300 | Unlimited |
| Historical FOB pricing (11 yrs) | 380K SKUs | 380K SKUs | 380K SKUs + cohort cuts |
| Trust Index — A+ supplier access | Read-only | Read + export | Custom scorecards |
| Registry-change alerts (47 registries) | Daily digest | 6-hr webhook | Real-time · ERP push |
| Workspace seats | Up to 3 | Up to 12 | Unlimited |
| Integrations (ERP / Slack / API) | Slack | Slack + REST API | SSO + ERP + webhook |
| Dedicated sourcing analyst | — | Add-on | Included |
Starter and Growth are quoted annually by default — most procurement teams run budget on a fiscal cycle and want one PO, not twelve. Monthly billing is available on Starter with a 6-month minimum. Enterprise is annual with a multi-year option tied to your sourcing roadmap.
No. Shugou indexes public Chinese registries (SAIC, NIA, customs records, court filings) and our own re-crawl layer; we never resell your private notes, shortlists, or PO history. Your workspace is siloed, and Enterprise plans include a contractual data-non-mingling clause that our legal team will walk through on the demo.
Starter teams are usually sourcing inside 48 hours — the workspace is self-serve, and a sourcing analyst walks you through your first three vetted factories on day one. Growth plans include a two-week ramp with custom Trust Index weights. Enterprise rollouts are 4–6 weeks depending on SSO, ERP wiring, and data-residency requirements.
Growth ships with a REST API and a Slack app. Enterprise includes pre-built connectors for NetSuite, SAP Ariba, and Cin7, plus a generic webhook that pushes registry-change events and Trust Index deltas into your existing PO system within minutes of detection. Custom integrations are scoped during the procurement conversation.
Three inputs: annual FOB spend flowing through the platform, the number of active factories you need to monitor concurrently, and the number of workspaces / regions your sourcing org operates in. We use those to right-size your seat count, your monthly vetting ceiling (effectively unlimited at this tier), and the SLA on registry-change detection.
Yes — we run a 14-day scoped pilot on three real factories from your own shortlist. You walk out with verified Trust Index scores, FOB benchmarks against 11 years of history, and an ownership/risk-flag report on every supplier you tested. Most procurement leads convert that pilot directly into a Growth or Enterprise contract.
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