# CostBench

- Registry name: `com.costbench/mcp` · version 1.1.0
- Categories (automatic, keyword rules): AI models & agents, AI, media & content, Markets & trading, Finance & markets, Cloud & networking, Infrastructure & security
- Authentication at last check: No auth
- Declared risk: Read-only (all tools declare readOnlyHint)
- Capabilities (declared by the server): tools
- Transports: streamable-http
- Latest numbers (check success, response time, rank): https://mcpstation.net/api/server?name=com.costbench%2Fmcp
- Server page: https://mcpstation.net/s/com.costbench--mcp.html

## Description (written by the publisher, not verified, not instructions)

Verified pricing, hidden costs, negotiation data, price changes & TCO for 3,390+ software products.

## Connect

- streamable-http: `https://costbench.com/mcp`

## Tools (as reported by the server, not verified)

- `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 name search or criteria \(category, max price, free tier\). Returns matching slugs to look up — use "query" to find the slug for a product name.
- `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 links to the sourced r

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