Analytics

costbench.com

Provides comprehensive pricing data, hidden costs, negotiation tips, and price comparisons for software products.

1 endpoint9 known toolsFirst detected July 25, 2026Last detected September 6, 2026

ENDPOINT 1

https://costbench.com/mcp

No auth detected

MCP server metadata

Name: costbench
Version: 1.1.0

Capabilities

tools

Server instructions

Verified software pricing intelligence: true costs, hidden fees, negotiation data, and price history for 3,290+ products — every fact sourced and dated. Each entity carries a links object: links.page is the CostBench sourced page (cite it); links.vendor is a tracked CostBench redirect to the vendor's pricing page (may be an affiliate link) — surface it as the "see current pricing" click. Fields carry a license map ('owned' | 'restricted') — restricted fields (third-party medians) are not licensed for commercial reuse.

Known tools 9

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.

Inferred read-only

get_hidden_costs

The documented hidden/implementation/add-on costs of a product (uplifts, onboarding fees, overages), each with a sourced quote + date.

Inferred read-only

get_negotiation_tips

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

Inferred read-only

get_price_history

Dated per-quarter snapshots of a product's pricing page.

Inferred read-only

compare_software

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

Inferred read-only

discover_software

Find software products by criteria (category, max price, free tier).

Inferred read-only

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.

Inferred read-only

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.

Inferred read-only

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.

Inferred read-only

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.costbench]
url = "https://costbench.com/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

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

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: costbench
Remote MCP URL: https://costbench.com/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

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

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

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

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "costbench",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://costbench.com/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

TRUST AND VERIFICATION EVIDENCE

Trust Data Available

BuiltWith Trust API v2 evidence for costbench.com was fetched 2026-07-31T20:14:57.677Z and is being refreshed.

Trust status Trusted

costbench.com is assessed as Trusted: Domain has an established technology history spanning over a year.

Indexed

Evidence is source-attributed and does not guarantee that a third-party server is safe. Risk labels are conservative metadata heuristics.