# price-sentinel

> Use this tool when you need to determine the most cost-effective AI solutions or retrieve current pricing information for 500+ providers, including LLMs, image, and video services. It resolves live pricing, token costs, and unit efficiency, providing a standardized "Cost-per-Generation" metric for comparison. Ideal for use cases involving "cheapest," "best-value," or "current price" queries, it offers real-time financial auditing and secure micropayments.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/krugex-price-sentinel  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/krugex-price-sentinel

## Description

Short Summary:

Real-time financial auditor for the AI landscape. Resolves live pricing, token-costs, and unit-efficiency for 500+ providers (LLMs, Image, Video).

Full Description:

Sentinel is a production-grade MCP server that gives AI agents "Ground Truth" eyes on the 2026 SaaS economy. While standard LLMs have frozen training data, Sentinel uses semantic search via Exa.ai to fetch current-day pricing.

Core Capabilities:

Unit Normalization: Converts GPU Hours, Credits, and Tokens into a standardized "Cost-per-Generation" metric.

Efficiency Scoring: Automatically calculates the price-per-image or price-per-1M tokens for side-by-side comparison.

Enterprise Ready: Integrated with xPay for secure, metered micropayments and Upstream-Secret protection.

When to use: Use this tool whenever a user asks for the "cheapest," "best-value," or "current price" of any AI tool or developer API.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.50
- **Verification tier:** unverified

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** finance
- **Updated:** 2026-05-11

## Source

- **Source listing:** [Smithery](https://smithery.ai/server/krugex/price-sentinel)

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "krugex-price-sentinel"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/krugex-price-sentinel` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/krugex-price-sentinel/pull`

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