Pricing Data: SaaS, AI & LLM Cost API | ComparEdge MCP Server

What this gives you

Software pricing is published to be hard to compare. Tiers hide the number that matters, add-ons live on a different page, and the first-year rate is not the rate you renew at. This server carries that data already read and structured: 495 SaaS and AI products across 44 categories, taken from vendor pricing pages and re-checked on a schedule, with the verification date attached to every record.

Nine tools, over plain HTTP, no key and no signup.

Tools

Tool	What you get
get_pricing	Every tier of one product with what each includes, the price range, annual discount, hidden costs and a verdict
compare_software	Two to four products side by side, full records plus a compact matrix of starting price, free tier, max annual discount and hidden costs
discover_software	Find tools by category, budget ceiling, free-tier requirement or keyword, with the source link on each card
get_hidden_costs	Implementation, add-ons, overage and support: the money that is not on the pricing page
calculate_tco	Total cost for a real team, seat-aware and billing-aware, subscription line plus hidden-cost line items
estimate_llm_cost	Per-model rate card in dollars per million tokens, input, output, cached input and context window, plus an estimate for your volume
get_cost_guide	Negotiation brief: real renewal rates, the vendor's cost-transparency score, and which discount programs survive renewal
get_price_history	Latest verified snapshot, last observed change and the derived trend
get_positioning	Where a product sits against its category on price: median, min, max and sample size

Connect over HTTP

No install, no credential. Point any MCP client at the endpoint:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "comparedge": {
      "url": "https://comparedge.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Or talk to it directly:

curl -s -X POST https://comparedge.com/api/mcp \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

Or run it locally

Three packages, each with its own job:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "comparedge": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@comparedge/mcp-server"]
    },
    "comparedge-price-watch": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@comparedge/price-watch-mcp"]
    },
    "comparedge-llm-cost": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@comparedge/llm-cost-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

mcp-server is the catalogue: pricing, alternatives and feature comparisons. price-watch-mcp tracks what moved: recent changes, per-product history, category trends and the biggest increases, from a human-reviewed change log. llm-cost-mcp prices token workloads against verified per-million rates for 60+ models from 16+ providers.

What it is good for

Sizing a renewal before the call, so you know the number the vendor is about to quote you. Budgeting an LLM feature at real token volume instead of a guess. Answering "what does X cost" without landing on a pricing page that says Contact Sales. Building a comparison that cites a verification date rather than a vibe.

Where the numbers come from

Vendor pricing pages, read and re-checked on a schedule, with the date recorded per product. Where a vendor publishes nothing, the record says so rather than estimating. Where a price comes from a marketplace listing rather than the vendor's own page, it is marked and does not count as disclosed.

FAQ

Do I need an API key? No. The HTTP server is open and CORS-enabled. There is no signup and no rate-limit tier to buy.

How current is the data? Every product carries its own verification date, returned with the record. Re-checks run on a schedule rather than on request, so you see when a number was last confirmed instead of trusting that it is fresh.

What happens when a vendor hides its pricing? The record says the tier is quote-only. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap, and a figure taken from a marketplace listing is flagged as such rather than passed off as the vendor's own.

Is there a REST API too? Yes, same data, OpenAPI 3.1, documented at https://comparedge.com/api-docs.

Which categories are covered? 44, including CRM, project management, cloud hosting, databases, IAM, compliance, payments, design, SEO, ERP, and the AI families: LLMs, coding, image, video, voice, agents.