mcp server
CostBench
Verified pricing, hidden costs, negotiation data & TCO for 3,290+ software products.
Description as published by the maintainer. Source
- version 1.0.1
- active
active — Most recent push to the repository was 2026-07-25.
What this server can do
8 functions, named and described by the server itself. Parameter names are shown because they say more about what a function does than its name usually does.
calculate_tco(slug, tier, seats, termYears)- 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. Required: slug, seats.
compare_software(slugs)- Side-by-side pricing comparison of 2–4 products (starting price, enterprise tier, median annual cost, free tier, ratings). Required: slugs.
discover_software(limit, category, maxPrice, hasFreeTier)- Find software products by criteria (category, max price, free tier). Returns matching slugs to look up.
estimate_llm_cost(slug, model, inputTokens, outputTokens)- 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. Required: slug.
get_hidden_costs(slug)- 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. Required: slug.
get_negotiation_tips(slug)- Sourced negotiation tactics for a product with success-likelihood (how to get a discount). Required: slug.
get_price_history(slug)- 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. Required: slug.
get_pricing(slug, depth)- 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. Required: slug.
Last successful function declaration observed on . Source: https://costbench.com/mcp. We list what the server declared; we do not call any of these functions.
Endpoint status observed on . Source: https://costbench.com/mcp.
Signals
These are separate measurements of different things. They are deliberately not combined into one score, because a popularity number that mixes website traffic with saves and stars cannot be checked or acted on.
| Signal | Value | What it measures | Window | Observed | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 0 | Number of GitHub accounts that bookmarked this repository since it was created. It is a bookmark count, not installs, not active users and not quality. | cumulative, all time | GitHub | |
| Last commit | 2026-07-25 | Date of the most recent push to any branch. This is the strongest cheap indicator of whether the project is still maintained. | point in time | GitHub | |
| Open issues | 0 | Open issues plus open pull requests, as GitHub counts them together. A high number can mean an active project or an abandoned one. | as of fetch | GitHub | |
| Latest published version | 1.0.1 | Latest version string the maintainer published to the registry. | as of fetch | Model Context Protocol | |
| Registry record last updated | 2026-07-19 | When the registry record was last updated by its maintainer. | point in time | Model Context Protocol | |
| License | MIT | Licence GitHub detected in the repository. Detection can be wrong; the LICENSE file is authoritative. | as of fetch | GitHub | |
| First listed in the MCP Registry | 2026-07-19 | Date this server was first published to the official MCP Registry. Not a usage or quality measure. | point in time | Model Context Protocol | |
| repository status | active | The repository exists on GitHub and is not archived. This says nothing about how recently it was worked on. | as of fetch | GitHub | |
| mcp tools declared | 8 tools | Number of functions the server itself declared when asked to list them. This is what the server offers an agent, not a measure of how well any of them work. | as of probe | costbench.com | |
| mcp endpoint status | ok | The server listed 8 functions when asked. | as of probe | costbench.com |
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How the author describes it
Topics the maintainer set on GitHub: ai-tools, claude, mcp, mcp-server, model-context-protocol, pricing, saas, software-pricing, tco.
This record as data
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