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CostBench
9 endpointsliveVerified pricing, hidden costs, negotiation data & TCO for 3,300+ software products. (MCP server com.costbench/mcp, aggregated from the official registry)
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| Endpoint | What it does | Price | Health |
|---|---|---|---|
| get pricing /get_pricing verified | Full sourced pricing record for a software product: tiers, hidden costs, contract terms, market data, sentiment, negotiation tips, TCO scenarios, price history | $0.0020 per call | unknown |
| get hidden costs /get_hidden_costs verified | 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 | $0.0020 per call | unknown |
| get negotiation tips /get_negotiation_tips verified | Sourced negotiation tactics for a product with success-likelihood (how to get a discount). | $0.0020 per call | unknown |
| get price history /get_price_history verified | Dated per-quarter snapshots of a product's pricing page. Returns observations, NOT a trend figure — CostBench does not publish one, because diffing snapshots ac | $0.0020 per call | unknown |
| compare software /compare_software verified | Side-by-side pricing comparison of 2–4 products (starting price, enterprise tier, median annual cost, free tier, ratings). | $0.0020 per call | unknown |
| discover software /discover_software verified | Find software products by criteria (category, max price, free tier). Returns matching slugs to look up. | $0.0020 per call | unknown |
| calculate tco /calculate_tco verified | Total cost of ownership for a product and team size: sourced line items (licenses with price escalation, benchmark implementation), year-one + multi-year totals | $0.0020 per call | unknown |
| estimate llm cost /estimate_llm_cost verified | 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. | $0.0020 per call | unknown |
| get price changes /get_price_changes verified | Recent software pricing changes CostBench detected against vendor pricing pages (increases, decreases, plan restructures) — dated, with before/after price bands | $0.0020 per call | unknown |