Connect CostBench and your agent gets 9 tools, among them calculate_tco, compare_software, discover_software. It answers at https://costbench.com/mcp over streamable HTTP, and it listed its tools to an anonymous client, so no sign-in was needed for that. Our probes reached it 10 of 10 times since 4 September 2026; the last check, on 18 October 2026, succeeded.
Verified pricing, hidden costs, negotiation data, price changes & TCO for 3,390+ software products.
Description as the publisher wrote it.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
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" answe Inputs: slug, seats, tier, termYears |
compare_software | Side-by-side pricing comparison of 2–4 products (starting price, enterprise tier, median annual cost, free tier, ratings). Inputs: slugs |
discover_software | Find software products by criteria (category, max price, free tier). Returns matching slugs to look up. Inputs: category, maxPrice, hasFreeTier, limit |
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. Inputs: slug, model, inputTokens, outputTokens |
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. Inputs: slug |
get_negotiation_tips | Sourced negotiation tactics for a product with success-likelihood (how to get a discount). Inputs: slug |
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 "w Inputs: slug, category, days, limit, include_suspect |
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. Inputs: slug |
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. Inputs: slug, depth |
Every block below points at https://costbench.com/mcp. Pick your client and copy.
claude mcp add --transport http costbench https://costbench.com/mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"costbench": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://costbench.com/mcp"]
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"costbench": {
"url": "https://costbench.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"costbench": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://costbench.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"context_servers": {
"costbench": {
"url": "https://costbench.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"costbench": {
"serverUrl": "https://costbench.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"costbench": {
"url": "https://costbench.com/mcp"
}
}
}name: CostBench
version: 0.0.1
schema: v1
mcpServers:
- name: CostBench
type: streamable-http
url: https://costbench.com/mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"costbench": {
"httpUrl": "https://costbench.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"costbench": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://costbench.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"costbench": {
"url": "https://costbench.com/mcp"
}
}
}goose://extension?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcostbench.com%2Fmcp&type=streamable_http&id=costbench&name=CostBench
It answered our last check on 18 October 2026 in 141 ms. Over 10 checks since 4 September 2026 it answered 10. Status here comes from Neuronto's own probes, not from the publisher.
Yes. It is published by costbench.com and served from costbench.com, the vendor's own domain: https://costbench.com/mcp.
9, as returned by the server's own tools/list on 10 September 2026: calculate_tco, compare_software, discover_software, estimate_llm_cost, get_hidden_costs, get_negotiation_tips, get_price_changes, get_price_history, and 1 more.
It answered our last check on 18 October 2026 in 141 ms. Over 10 checks since 4 September 2026 it answered 10.
Put the server under mcpServers in ~/.cursor/mcp.json with the URL https://costbench.com/mcp. The exact JSON is above, with the same setup for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, Gemini CLI and the rest.
It listed its tools to an anonymous client, so reading the tool list needs no key. Individual tools can still ask for credentials in their own inputs.
Publisher: com.costbench. Endpoint host: costbench.com. ARD identifier: urn:air:com.costbench:mcp:mcp.
First indexed 31 August 2026. The tools are exactly what the server returned; nothing on this page
is inferred from its name. Ranking in Neuronto search is never for sale.