The two price floors
Real-account inventory has a sourcing cost — pool-acquisition spend, vetting infrastructure, refill provisioning. Bot-tier inventory has effectively zero variable cost: spin up a container, generate accounts, deliver, move on. The price floors are roughly:
- Bot-tier floor — ~$0.003 per follower. Accounts created on demand, delivered in batches of 1,000 from the same datacenter. Account lifespan is hours to days before TikTok purges them.
- Real-account floor — ~$0.018 per follower for STANDARD tier, $0.025+ for vetted PREMIUM. Below the floor, the math doesn't work without substituting bot-tier inventory.
