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 "slug": "mcp-audit-price-index",
 "url": "https://stillosdigitalholdings.com/findings/mcp-audit-price-index",
 "question": "What does an independent MCP server security audit actually cost, and who publishes a price?",
 "headline": "Published MCP-audit prices run $299 to $25,000 — and 0 of 6 priced competitor offerings name a single customer.",
 "cite_as": "Published prices for independent MCP (Model Context Protocol) server security audits range from $299 to $25,000 across 3 vendors with prices on their own pages, and 0 of 6 competitor offerings name any customer, testimonial or audit count (Still OS Digital Holdings LLC, MCP audit price index, n=10 price points read firsthand from vendor pages, as of 2026-10-30).",
 "numbers": {
  "Price points read firsthand from a vendor page": "10",
  "Vendors publishing a price on their own page": "3",
  "Lowest published price point": "$299",
  "Highest published price point": "$25,000",
  "Competitor offerings naming ANY customer": "0 of 6",
  "Rows from search snippets, excluded as unverified": "3",
  "Index observed": "2026-10-30"
 },
 "method": "Each row is read directly from the vendor's own published page and stamped with the date it was read. Rows sourced from a search-result summary are stored but marked unverified and are EXCLUDED from every figure above, because a snippet is not a measured price. Customer evidence is counted only when the vendor names a customer, testimonial, case study or audit count on its own page; absence is recorded as absence, never inferred as a judgement about quality.",
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}