INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

get_price_history

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

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LIVE ENDPOINT

https://costbench.com/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for get_price_history and invoke it with your own arguments.

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Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

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.

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