tags:

• pricing
• cost-awareness
• tool evaluation
• free tier
• vendor lock-in people:
• rogermbyrne tools:
• Vercel
• Railway
• Supabase
• Neon
• Clerk
• Resend
• Stripe
• Fly.io
• Netlify
• Render projects:
• Pricing.md

Pricing.md

Make your AI agent cost-aware when planning developer tool stacks.

Pricing.md surfaces pricing breakpoints, compares alternatives, flags lock-in risks, and shows where free tiers end — so developers make informed decisions about the tools they choose.

Browse the registry at latest.sh — 303 tools, side-by-side comparisons, transparency scores, and an AI-powered Stack Advisor.

Install as a Skill

The quickest way to use Pricing.md is as an agent skill. No MCP setup needed — the pricing data is embedded directly in the skill.

npx skills add rogermbyrne/pricing.md

Once installed, your agent will proactively surface pricing when you're evaluating tools, planning a stack, or comparing options.

Install as an MCP Server

For programmatic pricing queries (search, compare, estimate cost), you can also run Pricing.md as an MCP server.

Add to your Claude Code MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pricing.md": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "pricing.md"]
    }
  }
}

MCP Tools

| Tool | Description | | --- | --- | | search_tools | Search and filter tools by category, price range, tags | | get_pricing | Get full pricing details for a specific tool | | compare_tools | Side-by-side comparison of 2-5 tools | | estimate_cost | Estimate monthly cost given usage quantities | | find_cheapest | Find the cheapest tool in a category for your usage | | growth_cost | Compare what tools cost at realistic growth (e.g. 100K MAU for auth, 50GB for databases) — exposes free-tier-to-paid cliffs |

Web UI — latest.sh

The full registry is browsable at latest.sh with:

• Tool pages with pricing tiers, portability info, and transparency scores
• Category comparisons with sorting by price, free tier, growth cost, and transparency
• Side-by-side compare for up to 5 tools
• Stack Advisor — describe your app, get a recommended stack with real pricing at 3 user scales
• Pricing changelog tracking when tools change their prices
• Transparency leaderboard scoring tools on pricing openness (A-F)
• pricing.md files — every tool has a machine-readable markdown file at /tool/{id}/pricing.md
• Embeddable SVG badges — transparency score badges at /tool/{id}/badge.svg

What's Covered

303 developer tools across 22 categories:

| Category | Tools | | --- | --- | | Hosting | Vercel, Railway, Fly.io, Netlify, Render, Val Town, Liveblocks, Pulumi, and more | | Database | Supabase, Neon, PlanetScale Postgres, PlanetScale Vitess, Turso, Upstash, Convex, and more | | Auth | Clerk, Auth0 (B2C), Auth0 (B2B), WorkOS, Descope, Permit.io, and more | | Email | Resend, Unosend, Postmark, SendGrid, and more | | Payments | Stripe, Paddle, and more | | Monitoring | Sentry, Checkly, New Relic, Honeycomb, and more | | AI/ML | OpenAI, Anthropic, Fireworks AI, Replicate, Modal, and more | | CI/CD | CircleCI, Buildkite, GitHub Actions, Depot, Doppler, and more | | Search | Algolia, Weaviate, Orama, Meilisearch, Pinecone, and more | | Analytics | PostHog, Plausible, Mixpanel, Amplitude, Dub, and more | | CMS | Sanity, Contentful, Storyblok, and more | | Feature Flags | LaunchDarkly, Statsig, and more | | Edge | Cloudflare, Deno Deploy, ngrok, Arcjet, Zuplo, and more | | Queues | Inngest, Trigger.dev, Svix, Hookdeck, and more | | Notifications | Novu, Courier, Engagespot, Knock, and more | | Storage | Tigris, Mux, and more | | Scheduling | Mergent, Cal.com | | Testing | Cypress Cloud, BrowserStack, and more | | AI Coding | GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, and more | | Docs | GitBook, ReadMe, Mintlify, and more | | Internal Tools | Retool, Appsmith, Budibase, and more | | Secrets | Doppler, Infisical, and more |

All pricing verified as of 2026-04-06. Each tool links to its pricing page for verification.

How It Works

When you're planning a project and mention tools like Vercel or Resend, the agent will:

1. Show the free tier and its limits
2. Show the cost at scale — what does this tool actually cost at 100K users? ($0 → $1,025/mo for Clerk, $0 → $0 for WorkOS)
3. Flag the free-tier cliff — some tools lure you with free tiers then charge aggressively when you outgrow them
4. Note portability — open standard (SMTP, PostgreSQL) or proprietary lock-in?
5. Present, don't recommend — you know your requirements, the agent shows the numbers

Maintaining Pricing Data

Pricing data lives in data/tools/ as JSON files validated against a Zod schema.

# Validate all data files
npm run validate

# Check if any pricing pages have changed
npm run check-freshness

# Re-discover which tools have pricing.md files
npm run discover

Contributing

Pricing.md is community-maintained. Anyone can add a new tool or update stale pricing by submitting a PR.

Quick version: Add a JSON file to data/tools/, run npm run validate, open a PR with a link to the pricing page you used.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for the full guide — schema reference, category list, portability ratings, and review process.

License

MIT