Market Basket Comparison
Define your own basket of goods and services and instantly compare its cost across 500+ cities.
Select quantities of any items we track — food, rent, transport, utilities — and get a ranked cost comparison across all cities, normalized to a global index.
Lifestyle-Specific Cost Modeling
Generic cost-of-living indices assume an average person. With a custom basket, you model the exact lifestyle of the employee or role you're benchmarking — daily restaurant meals, private school, frequent travel, or minimal commuting.
500+ Cities Ranked Instantly
Once you define your basket, every city in our database is priced and ranked — giving you a complete global comparison in a single view, sortable by cost or index.
Normalized Index for Easy Comparison
Results include a custom index normalized to New York City, so you can immediately see whether a city is 30% cheaper or 20% more expensive relative to a well-known benchmark.
Economic Research & Custom Statistics
Researchers can construct domain-specific baskets — food-only, housing-only, transport-only — to generate targeted cost statistics from our underlying price data across 500+ cities.
Compensation & Relocation Support
HR and global mobility teams can use the basket to define the spending profile of a specific role or seniority level, then use the resulting index to calibrate location-based salary adjustments.
Editable & Repeatable
Every basket configuration is encoded in the URL, so you can save, share, or adjust your basket at any time — making it easy to compare different lifestyle scenarios side by side.
Who Benefits?
- Economic Researchers – Generate custom cost statistics from granular price data across 500+ cities
- Compensation & Benefits Teams – Build role-specific cost baskets to support location-based pay policies
- Global Mobility Teams – Quantify cost differences for specific employee profiles, not just averages
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Built on crowd-sourced price data from millions of contributors across 9,000+ cities worldwide, covering food, housing, transport, utilities, healthcare, and more.
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Single User260 USD / month
Premier
Multiple Users Within Your Organization560 USD / month
Subscriptions renew automatically each period, with no long-term commitment. Cancel anytime.
| Feature | Advantage | Premier |
|---|---|---|
| Users | Single User | Multiple Users |
| Data & API | ||
| Data License | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data Quality Reports | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bulk Download Data | ✓ | ✓ |
| Historical Data Explorer | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data API (separate subscription) | ✕ | ✕ |
| Compensation & Labor Policy | ||
| Cost of Living Estimator | ✓ | ✓ |
| Market Basket Comparison | ✓ | ✓ |
| International Salary Equivalent Calculator | ✓ | ✓ |
| Relocation Salary Calculator | ✓ | ✓ |
| Net-To-Gross Salary Converter | ✓ | ✓ |
| Per Diem Allowance Calculator | ✓ | ✓ |
