CostBench

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How to call it

Add it to any MCP client that supports remote servers.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "costbench": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://costbench.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

9 tools

• 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.

• 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_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.

• 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 criteria (category, max price, free tier). Returns matching slugs to look up.

• 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.

• 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_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 li

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