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Verified pricing, hidden costs, negotiation data, price changes & TCO for 3,390+ software products.
Remote server: your requests and data go to costbench.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http costbench https://costbench.com/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
get_pricing — Full sourced pricing record for a software product: tiers, hidden costs, contract terms, market data, sentiment, negotiation tips, TCO scenaget_hidden_costs — The documented hidden/implementation/add-on costs of a product (uplifts, onboarding fees, overages), each with a sourced quote + date. The "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 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 calculate_tco — Total cost of ownership for a product and team size: sourced line items (licenses with price escalation, benchmark implementation), year-oneestimate_llm_cost — Estimate the cost of an LLM/API workload (input + output tokens) for a usage-priced provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock…) from its realget_price_changes — Recent software pricing changes CostBench detected against vendor pricing pages (increases, decreases, plan restructures) — dated, with befoNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.