The floor for like inventory
Real-account like inventory has a per-unit sourcing cost — pool maintenance, vetting, refill provisioning. The math works out to ~$0.0015 per like at scale (50,000+ likes), $0.002-0.003 at smaller volumes. Bot-tier likes price below $0.0005 per like — the cost is essentially server time. The middle of the market, $0.0008-0.0014, is where the deceptive vendors price; the inventory is bot-tier padded with a small fraction of real accounts to pass first-look inspection.
