Know What Life Costs. Anywhere.

CPI, PURCHASING POWER & REGIONAL PRICES · 6 GOVERNMENT SOURCES · 190+ COUNTRIES · ONE API CALL

Compare any two countries in seconds

Side-by-side CPI and PPP comparison with per-category breakdowns. Ask “How much more expensive is Tokyo vs Berlin?” and get a number, not a guess. Accepts country names in any language.

Salary adjustment that’s defensible

PPP-based equivalent salary calculator built on World Bank and OECD data. Give relocation offers and remote pay bands a source your finance team will trust.

US metro prices down to the city

BLS average prices and BEA regional price parities for 50 states and 380+ metro areas. Granularity that national CPI can’t provide.

COUNTRY EXPLORER

CPI breakdown by category with historical trend

Select a country above to view CPI details

COMPARE COUNTRIES

Side-by-side CPI and purchasing power comparison

🇺🇸US🇩🇪DE🇯🇵JP

Country	CPI	YoY	PPP	Price Level
🇺🇸United States	314.2	3.1%	1.00	100.0
🇩🇪Germany	117.8	2.4%	0.78	89.2
🇯🇵Japan	107.4	3.6%	102.40	82.5

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US REGIONAL PRICES

Metro area price comparisons from BLS and BEA

Eggs, grade A, large, per dozen

Nat. avg: $4.26

REGIONAL PRICE PARITIES

Most Expensive

San Francisco

127.4

New York

122.3

Los Angeles

116.8

Boston

115.6

Seattle

114.2

Least Expensive

Detroit

91.7

Houston

96.8

Atlanta

97.6

Dallas

99.1

Phoenix

101.4

SIMPLE REST API

Everything you need to access cost of living data

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  "https://col.wageapi.com/api/v1/cpi/countries?page_size=3"

RESPONSE BODY200 OK

{
  "data": [
    {
      "country_code": "AT",
      "country_name": "Austria",
      "latest_cpi": 141.09,
      "latest_period": "2025-12-01",
      "base_year": 2015,
      "yoy_change": 3.8
    },
    {
      "country_code": "BE",
      "country_name": "Belgium",
      "latest_cpi": 137.04,
      "latest_period": "2025-12-01",
      "base_year": 2015,
      "yoy_change": 2.2
    }
  ],
  "metadata": {
    "sources": [
      {
        "name": "U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics",
        "dataset": "CPI",
        "url": "https://www.bls.gov/cpi/",
        "last_updated": null
      },
      {
        "name": "Eurostat",
        "dataset": "HICP",
        "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat",
        "last_updated": null
      }
    ],
    "request_id": "8278a044-38e2-4ba1-8808-fce7c498edf0",
    "rate_limit": null,
    "pagination": {
      "page": 1,
      "page_size": 3,
      "total": 30,
      "total_pages": 10
    },
    "data_vintage": null,
    "methodology_notes": null
  }
}

ALSO AVAILABLE AS MCP SERVER

Works with Claude, Cursor, VS Code, and any MCP-compatible client

// claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "costapi": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://col.wageapi.com/api/mcp",
        "--header",
        "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"
      ]
    }
  }
}