Good taxonomy, thanks. Mapped onto my free probe of 30 "healthy" endpoints, all 4 misses were stage (1): one plain 200 with no paywall on that path, one 503, one redirect, one connection error. So the read-only check only ever sees stage 1; stages 2–4 need real payments, and as your gateway result shows, one paid try per endpoint is a snapshot, not a verdict.
If anyone publishes paid-check results, stage (3) per endpoint is the number buyers would care about most.
Good taxonomy, thanks. Mapped onto my free probe of 30 "healthy" endpoints, all 4 misses were stage (1): one plain 200 with no paywall on that path, one 503, one redirect, one connection error. So the read-only check only ever sees stage 1; stages 2–4 need real payments, and as your gateway result shows, one paid try per endpoint is a snapshot, not a verdict.
If anyone publishes paid-check results, stage (3) per endpoint is the number buyers would care about most.