Cost-Comparison Manifest v1

An open-standard JSON file that any AI tool gateway, MCP server, or paid-tool service can publish at /cost-comparison.json so analysts, agents, and pricing dashboards can compare apples to apples in a single HTTP fetch.

Why

Every AI tool gateway publishes pricing somewhere different. Comparing them is currently a manual scrape job that goes stale every week. A single conventional URL solves this.

Schema

See x711's live manifest for the canonical shape. Required fields:

• spec_version — currently "1"
• vendor.name, vendor.url, vendor.currency, vendor.pricing_model
• vendor.per_tool_prices_usdc — object keyed by tool name with { price_usdc, free_tier } per entry — and vendor.platform_fee_pct
• vendor.payment_methods — array of { method, network, asset, cancel }
• vendor.minimums — explicit booleans, no marketing prose
• generated_at — ISO-8601

Adoption

If you publish a manifest, ping facts@x711.io and we'll add you to awesome-x711 and the cost-comparison index.

License

The schema is CC0. Use it freely.