AI links: open priced Azure, AWS and Google Cloud quotes from one URL

An AI link is a pricing request written into a URL. Compose it from what your user told you, with no call to Cloud Pricing Calculators and no key. When they open it, the canvas prices it on the clouds you named: one provider block lands one quote per service, and two or three blocks land a comparison group.

Version parent-1.0.0, built on the sister grammar 1.0.0. Machine-readable: /ai-link.json. Full agent guide: /llms-full.txt. To get prices back in your own conversation instead of a link, use the API on the agent page.

Grammar

https://cloudpricingcalculators.com/q/<provider>/<services>/<specs>[/<provider>/<services>/<specs>]{0,2}[?n=<name>]

<provider> := azure | aws | gcp      (each at most once per link)
<services> := <slug>(-<slug>)*       (the sister grammar, per provider)
<specs>    := <spec>(-<spec>)*       (one spec per service, same order)
<spec>     := <key>=<value>(_<key>=<value>)*
<slug>     := [a-z][a-z0-9]{0,23}
<key>      := [a-z]{1,20}
<value>    := [a-z0-9]{1,32}

• One block, /q/<provider>/<services>/<specs>, prices on one cloud, exactly like that cloud's own calculator.
• Several blocks, /q/azure/<s>/<p>/aws/<s>/<p>[/gcp/<s>/<p>]: the path is read in threes, each provider at most once, and the quotes land as one comparison group.
• ?n= names the quote or group. It belongs to the whole link.
• Lower case only; no . and no + anywhere (write m5large, not m5.large).
• If any part does not parse, nothing is priced: the canvas opens and names the token it could not read. Besides the sister reasons, a link fails with bad_provider (not azure, aws or gcp) or duplicate_provider.
• The link carries requirements, never prices. The engines price it when the link is opened, on the visitor's own free daily allowance; automated browsers land the quotes as drafts without pricing.
• A sister link, https://<sister>/q/<services>/<specs>, pasted into the canvas imports too: the cloud comes from its host.

Limits

Examples

• https://cloudpricingcalculators.com/q/aws/ec2-rds/size=m5large_qty=2_region=useast1-engine=postgres_storage=100?n=Web%20app
  two AWS services on one link
• https://cloudpricingcalculators.com/q/azure/vm/size=d4sv5_os=linux/aws/ec2/size=m6ixlarge_os=linux/gcp/gce/size=n2standard4_os=linux?n=VM%20comparison
  a three-cloud comparison group, one service per cloud
• https://cloudpricingcalculators.com/q/azure/vm/size=d4sv5_qty=2_os=windows_region=eastus?n=Windows%20servers
  two Windows VMs on Azure in East US, with a name
• https://cloudpricingcalculators.com/q/azure/sql/tier=generalpurpose_vcores=4/gcp/cloudsql/engine=sqlserver_vcores=4?n=SQL%20Server%20on%20two%20clouds
  a two-cloud comparison: the same database on Azure and Google Cloud

Service slugs and spec keys per cloud

Spec keys are the same on every cloud, and the engines read English; only the worked example values differ, because each cloud spells sizes and regions its own way.