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Vendor Pricing Verification Prompts

Five prompts for checking a software price before you quote it in a budget. Written while pricing ten AI sales tools, where three figures in wide circulation turned out to be wrong by as much as a factor of four, and one vendor page carried three different entry prices at once. These assume you have pasted the vendor pricing page, not a roundup.

⌨️ 5 prompts 🕐 Updated Oct 24, 2026

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Separate annual from monthly

Avoid quoting an annual rate as a monthly cost

Here is a vendor pricing page. For every tier, give both the annual-billing rate and the true monthly rate, and state which one the page displays by default. Where only one is shown, say so rather than calculating the other. Flag any tier where the displayed figure requires a twelve-month commitment.

Find the real entry cost

Get past the headline price to what leaves the account

From this pricing page, work out the minimum amount someone must actually pay to use the product for one month. Include seat minimums, platform fees, mandatory add-ons and setup charges. Show the arithmetic. If the entry tier has a two-seat floor, the entry cost is two seats.

List what is unpriced

Know the size of the gap before a sales call

Read this pricing page and list everything that costs money but has no published figure: custom tiers, overage rates, add-ons priced in-app, managed services, implementation. For each, say what you would have to ask the vendor to get a number.

Check the page against itself

Catch vendor pages that contradict themselves

Read this pricing page including its meta description, tier cards, comparison table and FAQ. List every place where two parts of the page state a different price, allowance or limit for the same thing. Quote both. Do not resolve the conflict, just surface it.

Convert to a comparable unit

Compare tools that do not share a billing unit

Here are pricing details for several tools billed on different units: per seat, per credit, per action and per contact. Restate each as cost for the following workload, showing your arithmetic and stating any assumption you had to make. Where a tool cannot be converted without an unpublished rate, say so instead of estimating.