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CostBench

Verified pricing, hidden costs, negotiation data & TCO for 3,300+ software products.

Compare software pricing, costs, and TCO across 3,300+ products.

Captured live from the server via tools/list.

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.

Parameters (2)

slugstringrequired
Product slug, e.g. "salesforce"
depthstring
summary = numbers+sources only

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.

Parameters (1)

slugstringrequired

get_negotiation_tips

Sourced negotiation tactics for a product with success-likelihood (how to get a discount).

Parameters (1)

slugstringrequired

get_price_history

Per-quarter price snapshots + trend for a product — has its price changed?

Parameters (1)

slugstringrequired

compare_software

Side-by-side pricing comparison of 2–4 products (starting price, enterprise tier, median annual cost, free tier, ratings).

Parameters (1)

slugsarrayrequired

discover_software

Find software products by criteria (category, max price, free tier). Returns matching slugs to look up.

Parameters (4)

categorystring
maxPricenumber
hasFreeTierboolean
limitnumber

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.

Parameters (4)

slugstringrequired
seatsnumberrequired
tierstring
termYearsnumber

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.

Parameters (4)

slugstringrequired
modelstring
inputTokensnumber
Input tokens for the workload (e.g. per month). At least one of inputTokens/outputTokens must be > 0.
outputTokensnumber
Output tokens for the workload. At least one of inputTokens/outputTokens must be > 0.

Install

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://costbench.com/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Desktop config is stdio-only; this bridges via mcp-remote. Native remote: Settings > Connectors.