costdata

The vendor's site describes a suite of tools built around cost benchmarking. The core product, costdata market data, is a database of average prices and costs across categories such as raw materials, metals, plastics, electronics, packaging, salaries, and site factors, used to compare internal or supplier prices against market benchmarks. A companion product, costdata calculation, is described as software for product cost calculation. A separate tool, the commodity price tracker, analyzes historical price and cost-driver data to show percentage changes in total cost, broken down by drivers such as material, packaging, transport, personnel, energy, and overhead.

The site lists customer industries including automotive and commercial vehicles, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, energy, consumer goods, aerospace and defense, and machinery, and states the tools are also used for service and project costing in sectors such as IT, engineering offices, banking, logistics, and skilled trades. The market data product is offered as an on-premise solution without a permanent internet connection, as a cloud solution with an AI-based chatbot for desktop or app use, and as an enterprise API for integration into existing systems; the site says data can also be purchased as individual datasets without a license model.

The site does not publish prices; individual datasets and data packages are available on request, and other pricing is not stated. It says data can be integrated via APIs or individual interfaces into third-party tools but does not name the specific systems or explain how integration is configured. It is also unclear whether the calculation software and commodity price tracker are priced or licensed separately from the market data product.