costbench.com
Link authority for costbench.com (registrable domain: costbench.com) from the Common Crawl web graph: PageRank and harmonic centrality history since 2017, current scores, and the site's top backlink sources.
Web-graph authority (0-100)
Domain scores measure costbench.com as a whole: every subdomain's links rolled up into one node of Common Crawl's domain-level web graph. Host scores measure the exact hostname costbench.com. WWW scores cover the www variant of that hostname, which the graph tracks as its own entry since January 2026 (before that, www and bare host were merged). A big gap between domain and host usually means the domain's authority lives on other subdomains. PageRank is link-endorsement authority: how much weight the sites linking here carry themselves. Harmonic centrality measures reach: how close this site sits to the rest of the web when following links, which favors broadly connected sites over ones boosted by a few heavy linkers. All are normalized 0 to 100 within each crawl snapshot; a dash means that series does not exist for this site.
Homepage
What costbench.com presents on its own homepage: the page title, description, and the social share markup it publishes. Pulled from https://costbench.com.
| Title | CostBench: Independent SaaS Pricing & Negotiation Intelligence — Compare 3,291 Tools Before You Buy (2026) |
|---|---|
| Description | Compare 3,291 software tools side-by-side before you buy. Verified prices, hidden costs, contract terms, and 156 documented price changes — sourced and dated, free to read. |
| OG Title | CostBench: Independent SaaS Pricing & Negotiation Intelligence — Compare 3,291 Tools Before You Buy (2026) |
| OG Description | Compare 3,291 software tools side-by-side before you buy. Verified prices, hidden costs, contract terms, and 156 documented price changes — sourced and dated, free to read. |
| OG Site Name | CostBench |
| Twitter Title | CostBench: Independent SaaS Pricing & Negotiation Intelligence — Compare 3,291 Tools Before You Buy (2026) |
| Twitter Card | summary_large_image |
Social accounts and contact points
Where this site maintains a presence and every reachable route its homepage exposes: social accounts, contact pages, addresses, and content feeds.
| Contact pages | https://costbench.com/contact/ |
|---|---|
| Feeds | https://costbench.com/feed.xml |
Structured data (JSON-LD)
The schema.org markup this homepage publishes: the machine-readable identity search engines and AI systems read. Types found: Organization, WebSite, WebPage, FAQPage.
JSON-LD block (3,593 bytes)
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://costbench.com/#organization","name":"CostBench","url":"https://costbench.com","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://costbench.com/logo.png"},"foundingDate":"2025","sameAs":["https://twitter.com/costbench","https://linkedin.com/company/costbench"],"contactPoint":{"@type":"ContactPoint","contactType":"customer support","email":"support@costbench.com","url":"https://costbench.com/contact/"}},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://costbench.com/#website","url":"https://costbench.com","name":"CostBench","publisher":{"@id":"https://costbench.com/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://costbench.com/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://costbench.com/#webpage","url":"https://costbench.com/","name":"CostBench: Independent SaaS Pricing & Negotiation Intelligence — Compare 3,291 Tools Before You Buy (2026)","speakable":{"@type":"SpeakableSpecification","cssSelector":["#hero-lede","#ticker-headline","#ticker-summary"]}},{"@type":"FAQPage","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What is CostBench?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"CostBench is an independent database for comparing software before you buy. We track verified prices and contract terms for 3,291 products across 255 categories, document hidden fees vendors don't advertise (12,374 so far), and catch every price change we detect (156 logged). All data is sourced, dated, and free to read."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"How does CostBench get pricing data?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"We extract pricing from official vendor pages daily using a Puppeteer-based pipeline, then enrich each profile with hidden costs from TrustRadius/Reddit/G2/BBB and median negotiated cost data from Vendr. Every claim is sourced with a quote and date. Our methodology is public."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"Is CostBench free to use?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Yes, completely free — no signup, no paywall. All pricing pages, comparisons, the full changelog, and our negotiation playbook are open. On brief-ready products you can also generate an instant benchmark brief for your specific quote — no signup required to see it."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"How often is pricing updated?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Every product is reverified on a rolling daily schedule (40 entities/day, ~30 day cycle). When fingerprints change, a new validation runs. 438 products have been verified in the last 30 days. Every page shows its last-checked date."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"How does CostBench maintain accuracy?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Two-layer validation: fingerprint comparison flags actual changes, then Sonnet validates against the live page. Every hidden cost cites a quote, a source, and a date. Conflicts trigger re-extraction. Editorial is independent — affiliate links are disclosed with rel=\"sponsored\" and clearly marked."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"What software categories does CostBench cover?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"255 categories spanning CRM (Salesforce, HubSpot), developer tools (GitHub, Datadog), financial terminals (Bloomberg, FactSet, Refinitiv), AI tools across 45 specialized categories (chatbots, coding assistants, image generators, video generators), plus design, communication, project management, observability, data warehousing, and dozens more."}}]}]}Authority over time
Every Common Crawl web-graph release since 2017, roughly quarterly. The domain series goes back to 2017; Common Crawl only began publishing the host-level graph in 2020, so host lines start there. Click a legend entry to show or hide that line. Flat lines are normal for established sites; watch for sustained rises or drops, which track real gains or losses in who links here.
A note on www: through the end of 2025 the source web graph merged www and non-www hostnames into the bare name, so one host line covers both. Starting in January 2026 the graph splits them into separate entries, which is why www can carry its own scores going forward.
Backlink counts
Unique linking domains seen in Common Crawl's link graphs. This is a different dataset than the 0-100 authority scores above: these are raw counts, host-level for costbench.com and domain-level for costbench.com with all its subdomains combined. Common Crawl covers a large sample of the web, not all of it, so treat counts as comparable between sites rather than absolute totals.
Top backlinks in the domain graph
Common Crawl publishes two link graphs. The DOMAIN graph connects whole domains: every link from any page of one domain to any page of another. This table shows the highest-authority domains linking to costbench.com (including its subdomains), ranked by the linker's PageRank. The table shows the top 78; the download carries the full stored list (up to 10,000 linkers) as JSON. Click a linker for its own site profile.
Top backlinks in the host graph
The HOST graph connects exact hostnames, so subdomains count separately. This table shows the highest-authority hosts linking to costbench.com specifically, ranked by the linker's PageRank. The table shows the top 82; the download carries the full stored list (up to 10,000 linkers) as JSON. Click a linker for its own site profile.