Who it is for
Procurement, finance, and IT buyers negotiating software or AI vendor contracts.
Tropic
Benchmark software and AI contract pricing before negotiating
Overview
What Tropic does
Software and AI contract pricing is rarely published, which makes independent comparison hard. Tropic addresses that with benchmark data drawn from verified technology spend, which the listing puts at more than eighteen billion dollars, alongside negotiation playbooks built from over one hundred thousand recorded deals.
Connected to ChatGPT, the app answers pricing questions directly. A vendor proposal can be uploaded and checked against comparable transactions, and supplier intelligence covers competing vendors and the contract terms they tend to accept.
Permissions carry over from the Tropic account, so the data returned matches what the same person could open in the Tropic app.
What stands out
Benchmarks come from recorded transaction data rather than list prices, which vendors in this category rarely publish.
Availability
Where Tropic is listed
Tropic ships this on both marketplaces: Tropic is listed in the Claude connectors directory and in the ChatGPT apps directory, under the same publisher domain.
Only 392 of the 3,150 products in this directory are listed in both marketplaces. One MCP server can serve both surfaces; what differs is each platform's listing and review process.
ChatGPT listing
In the ChatGPT apps directory
- Developer
- Tropic
- Filed under
- Business & Operations
- Listed since
- June 2026
- Authentication
- Authenticates when installed
- Website
- tropicapp.io
- Policies published
- Privacy policy · Terms of service
- Official listing
- Open in ChatGPT
- Snapshot
- August 2026
Example prompts from the listing
- How is my pricing for 80 Gong Professional seats for $104,000?
Claude listing
In the Claude connectors directory
Tropic publishes 10 tools to Claude. That is a mid-sized surface: 45% of the 1,253 Claude-listed connectors expose fewer.
The median Claude-listed connector filed under Productivity publishes 12, so this one sits 2 tools below its bucket's median, 253rd of 462.
It falls in the 7-10 tools band, which holds 14.6% of the Claude directory.
Tropic publishes a remote MCP endpoint. Claude connects to it over HTTP; there is nothing to install locally.
Every connector in the Claude directory is remote, all 1,253 of them, so transport is not a differentiator there.
- Publisher
- Tropic
- Verification
- Verified partner (37.8% of the Claude directory)
- Filed under
- Productivity
- Endpoint
-
https://app.tropicapp.io/mcp - Documentation
- Publisher setup docs
- Published tools
- 10 · 7-10 tools band
- Depth rank in Productivity
- 253 of 462
- Snapshot
- August 2026
Tropic carries partner verification in the Claude directory, which 474 of 1,253 listings do (37.8%). That is a review step past self-publishing, not an Anthropic-built server.
In the publisher's words
How Tropic describes it
Software + AI pricing isn't public, so searching the internet won't tell you if you're overpaying. Tropic will. Connect Tropic to Claude to benchmark your pricing against $18B+ in verified technology transactions.
Quoted from the connector's own Claude directory listing as captured in August 2026. Node8 did not write it and does not vouch for it.
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This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from Tropic's public marketplace listings as they stood in August 2026. Listing facts come from the marketplaces; the comparisons against the rest of the directory and any live-endpoint measurements are Node8's. Node8 is not affiliated with Tropic, and inclusion here is not an endorsement.
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