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CostBench
Pricing data, TCO, hidden costs, changes, comparisons
2157 ms
answered our call
- State
- Answered
- Protocol
- MCP 2025-03-26
- Tools listed
- 9
- Answered
- 3 of the last 3 calls
How to reach it
- MCP, HTTP
https://costbench.com/mcp
What it can do
| Tool | What it says it does |
|---|---|
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. |
compare_software | Side-by-side pricing comparison of 2–4 products (starting price, enterprise tier, median annual cost, free tier, ratings). |
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. |
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. |
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. |
get_negotiation_tips | Sourced negotiation tactics for a product with success-likelihood (how to get a discount). |
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… |
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. |
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. |
In its maker's words
Verified pricing, hidden costs, negotiation data, price changes & TCO for 3,390+ software products.
- Website
- costbench.com
- Source
- github.com/aadilr/costbench-mcp
- Publisher
- costbench.com
- Listed from
- the official MCP Registry as
com.costbench/mcp - Version
- 1.1.0, updated 24 Aug 2026
- Kinds of work
- Finance and markets, Search and research, Shops and payments
The domain it lives on
- costbench.com
- registered 23 Jan 2026 (9 months ago), at Cloudflare, Inc., its home page is a working site
From our own crawl of domain names: registry records and the home page as our crawler last saw it.
Every call we made
| When | What happened | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Answered | 2157 ms | |
| Answered | 1839 ms | |
| Answered | 881 ms |
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