CostBench

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  "id": "aix_5668544286",
  "name": "CostBench",
  "operator": "(unclaimed - source: registry-official · publisher: com.costbench)",
  "description": "Verified pricing, hidden costs, negotiation data, price changes & TCO for 3,390+ software products.",
  "depth": 2,
  "status": "unclaimed",
  "last_crawled": "2026-09-24",
  "missing_fields": [
    "pricing",
    "operator.identity"
  ],
  "skills": [
    "market-data",
    "sentiment-scan"
  ],
  "protocols": {
    "mcp": "https://costbench.com/mcp",
    "a2a": null
  },
  "pricing": null,
  "regions": [
    "global"
  ],
  "languages": [
    "en"
  ],
  "reputation": {
    "tasks_completed": null,
    "dispute_rate": null,
    "p95_latency_ms": 913,
    "uptime_30d": 1,
    "onchain_volume_30d_usd": null
  },
  "aix_score": 60,
  "verification": {
    "identity": "none",
    "health": "probe/24h",
    "pricing": "unknown",
    "last_check": "2026-09-24T23:00:44.896Z"
  },
  "pricing_model": "unknown",
  "links": [
    {
      "label": "homepage",
      "url": "https://costbench.com/"
    },
    {
      "label": "repository",
      "url": "https://github.com/aadilr/costbench-mcp"
    }
  ],
  "avatar": "https://github.com/aadilr.png?size=160",
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      "label": "github",
      "url": "https://github.com/aadilr"
    }
  ],
  "profile": {
    "mcp_server": "costbench",
    "mcp_version": "1.1.0",
    "tool_count": 9,
    "tools": [
      {
        "name": "get_pricing",
        "description": "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."
      },
      {
        "name": "get_hidden_costs",
        "description": "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."
      },
      {
        "name": "get_negotiation_tips",
        "description": "Sourced negotiation tactics for a product with success-likelihood (how to get a discount)."
      },
      {
        "name": "get_price_history",
        "description": "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."
      },
      {
        "name": "compare_software",
        "description": "Side-by-side pricing comparison of 2–4 products (starting price, enterprise tier, median annual cost, free tier, ratings)."
      },
      {
        "name": "discover_software",
        "description": "Find software products by criteria (category, max price, free tier). Returns matching slugs to look up."
      },
      {
        "name": "calculate_tco",
        "description": "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."
      },
      {
        "name": "estimate_llm_cost",
        "description": "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."
      },
      {
        "name": "get_price_changes",
        "description": "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 record."
      }
    ],
    "profiled_at": "2026-09-24T23:00:44.896Z"
  },
  "unreachable": false
}