CostBench
Verified pricing, hidden costs, negotiation data, price changes & TCO for 3,390+ software products.
| Endpoint | https://costbench.com/mcp (streamable-http) |
|---|---|
| Registry version | 1.1.0 |
| Now | 9 tools · grade A (96) · pin ts_da1a73219e491cc6c0224b0014a43b36 · protocol 2025-03-26 |
| First / last listed | 2026-10-24 21:17 UTC / 2026-10-24 21:17 UTC |
| Grade over time | 2026-10-24: A (96), 9 tools |
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Tools: get_pricing get_hidden_costs get_negotiation_tips get_price_history compare_software discover_software calculate_tco estimate_llm_cost get_price_changes
get_pricing | Full sourced pricing record for a software product: tiers, hidden costs, contract terms, market data, sentiment, negotiation tips, TCO scenarios, price history — every claim with its sources + a confidence/verification envelope. params: slug*, depth |
get_hidden_costs | The documented hidden/implementation/add-on costs of a product (uplifts, onboarding fees, overages), each with a sourced quote + date. The "what they don't tell you" answer. params: slug* |
get_negotiation_tips | Sourced negotiation tactics for a product with success-likelihood (how to get a discount). params: slug* |
get_price_history | Dated per-quarter snapshots of a product's pricing page. Returns observations, NOT a trend figure — CostBench does not publish one, because diffing snapshots across renamed/restructured plan lineups is ~90% measurement artifact. params: slug* |
compare_software | Side-by-side pricing comparison of 2–4 products (starting price, enterprise tier, median annual cost, free tier, ratings). params: slugs* |
discover_software | Find software products by name search or criteria (category, max price, free tier). Returns matching slugs to look up — use "query" to find the slug for a product name. params: query, category, maxPrice, hasFreeTier, limit |
calculate_tco | Total cost of ownership for a product and team size: sourced line items (licenses with price escalation, benchmark implementation), year-one + multi-year totals, effective per-seat cost. The defensible "true cost for an N-person team" answer. params: slug*, seats*, tier, termYears |
estimate_llm_cost | Estimate the cost of an LLM/API workload (input + output tokens) for a usage-priced provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock…) from its real rate card. params: slug*, model, inputTokens, outputTokens |
get_price_changes | Recent software pricing changes CostBench detected against vendor pricing pages (increases, decreases, plan restructures) — dated, with before/after price bands and a source link. Filter by product slug, category, or lookback window. The "what changed lately" answer; each item links to the sourced record. params: slug, category, days, limit, include_suspect |
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