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Vendor Price Intelligence
Vendor Marketplace

Stop paying more than you have to.

Your next customer is already here.

Costara reads every vendor price sheet — PDFs, photos, even handwritten notes — compares every item, and fires the cheapest order automatically. Then it audits the delivery invoice to make sure you got the price you were promised.

List your prices once and get in front of thousands of restaurants instantly. No cold calls. No sales reps. Orders come directly to you.

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$0
Saved / mo per location
0s
To parse a price sheet
0+
Items tracked
2,400+
Restaurants on platform
$2.1M
Orders monthly
$0
To get started
💰 Saving $47.20
⚡ 193 items compared
● LIVE
Price Comparison
Crest Hill — EBL04 · This week's order
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Works with any distributor
Distributors already winning on Costara
Watch it work

A crumpled note becomes
clean data. Live.

This is a real handwritten produce special from a real vendor. Watch Costara's AI read it — handwriting and all.

Produce ~
Tomate bola :$69.99
″  roma :$59.00
Morron →$46.00
Jalapeño →$64.00
Tomatillo pelado$55.00
Limon 200 →$72.00
Cilantro →$18.99
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AI reads it
Extracted Prices
✓ 7 items · 2.1s
The problem

You're overpaying.
You just can't see it.

Vendor prices change every single week. Unless someone compares every line item across every price sheet, money quietly leaks out of your kitchen.

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Price sheets pile up
PDFs, photos, handwritten specials — they land in texts and email, and nobody has time to cross-check 200 items by hand.
3–5 hrs
Wasted per week comparing manually
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Prices creep silently
A $0.30 bump on chicken here, $2 on oil there. Across 10 locations and hundreds of items, it compounds fast.
8–12%
Typical overspend without comparison
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Loyalty costs you
Ordering from "your guy" out of habit means the other vendor's better price never even gets a look.
$4,800
Avg monthly savings left on the table
Why list on Costara

Fire your sales team.
We got you.

Your competitors are already in front of every restaurant on Costara. When your price wins, the order fires to you automatically — no pitch required.

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Instant exposure
The moment you list, every restaurant on Costara sees your prices in their comparison tool.
2,400+
Restaurants browsing weekly
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One PDF. That's it.
Upload your weekly price sheet once. Our AI parses every item, price, and pack size automatically.
~14s
To go live in the marketplace
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Orders come to you
Win on price and the order lands in your inbox instantly — item list, quantities, delivery location.
$2.1M
Monthly order volume
How it works

From price sheet to savings
in four steps

Live in the marketplace
in five minutes

1
Snap or share
Vendor sends a PDF, photo, or handwritten note. Share it straight to Costara — no saving files.
2
AI reads everything
Every item, price, and pack size extracted in seconds. Even handwriting.
3
Best price wins
Costara compares every item across all your vendors and builds the cheapest possible order.
4
Approve in one tap
Review the savings, tap approve, and every vendor gets their order instantly.
1
Create a free account
Sign up in minutes. No credit card. Start on the free plan immediately.
2
Upload your price sheet
Drop in your weekly sheet. AI extracts every item — no reformatting.
3
Restaurants find you
Your prices appear in every nearby restaurant's comparison tool.
4
Orders land in your inbox
Win on price, get the order automatically. No sales call needed.
Do the math

What's overpaying
costing you?

How many locations do you run?
3 locations
15101520
Estimated annual savings
$162,000
Based on real customer data — $4,500/mo saved per location
Everything included
Built for distributors

One app. Every vendor.
Zero overpaying.

Win on price,
not on politics.

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AI reads anything
PDFs, spreadsheets, photos of printed sheets, even handwritten produce specials scribbled on notebook paper. If a vendor can send it, Costara can read it — every item, price, and pack size in seconds.
Signature
⚡
Instant comparison
Every item matched to the cheapest vendor automatically, every single week.
📲
Staff ordering
Bilingual EN/ES order forms with big buttons, autosave, and smart tag search.
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Savings dashboard
See exactly how much you saved, per week, per vendor, per location.
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Multi-location
Ten restaurants, one dashboard. One approval fires every vendor's order at once.
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Marketplace placement
Your full catalog appears in the comparison tool of every restaurant in your delivery area. When your price is best, you win the line item — automatically.
Core
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One-PDF onboarding
Upload your sheet once a week. AI does the rest.
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Demand analytics
See which items restaurants order most and price to win.
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Real-time order alerts
Every won order arrives instantly with full details.
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Free to start
List free, pay a small commission only on orders you actually win.
Real analytics — not mockups

See where every
dollar actually goes

These are live screens from the Costara dashboard. Every chart is built from your real orders and real vendor sheets — automatically.

🔔 Price Alerts
LIVE
#1
SPONGE SS
now $65.81 · avg $25.57
+157%
#2
SALT
now $53.25 · avg $26.06
+104%
#3
OREGANO 25 LBS
now $17.75 · avg $9.16
+94%
Catch price hikes before you order. Anything priced above its 8-week average gets flagged — like the week sponges quietly went up 157%.
⚖️ Vendor Cost Comparison
$536
potential extra savings if you'd bought every item from its cheapest vendor
AJO GRANULADO
97% cheaper at Vendor 1
$151
BEANS (100lbs)
43% cheaper at Vendor 1
$102
RICE (100lbs)
37% cheaper at Vendor 1
$97
Every missed saving, itemized. Costara shows exactly which items you bought from the wrong vendor — and what it cost you.
🛡️ Supplier Reliability
VENDOR 2Stable · 80/100
27 items · 4 weeks · 18 stable · 2 volatile
VENDOR 1Mixed · 68/100
33 items · 4 weeks · 21 stable · 9 volatile
Know who holds their prices. Every vendor gets a volatility score, so you know whose quote will still be real next week.
📈 Item Price History
CARNE ARRACHERA
Avg
$7.44
Low
$7.38
High
$7.50
Apr 26 → May 1 · Vendor 1$7.50 ↗ +1.6%
Track any item, any vendor, over time. Search "arrachera" and see exactly how the price has moved — and who's creeping up on you.
⚡ Double Savings
Quoted one price.
Invoiced another.
Costara saves you money when you order — then audits the invoice when the truck shows up. Snap a photo of the delivery invoice and every line is checked against the prices you were actually quoted.
+$343.33
in overcharges caught from one invoice photo — and recovered
📋 Invoice History
Vendor 2
Jun 8 · $1,055.87
All clear ✓
Vendor 1
Jun 5
6 issues · +$343.33RESOLVED
Vendor 2
Jun 6 · $862.30
3 issues · +$34.95RESOLVED
🎯 Spot the Overcharge
5 ROUNDS · TIMED
What you were quoted
What the invoice says — tap the line that doesn't match
What operators say

Real kitchens.
Real savings.

★★★★★
"I used to spend Sunday nights with two price sheets and a calculator. Now I forward the PDFs and approve the order from my phone. First month we saved $1,100 at one location."
M
Miguel R.
Owner, 10-location Mexican group · Illinois
★★★★★
"My produce guy literally sends handwritten notes. Costara reads them perfectly. My kitchen managers order in Spanish, I approve in English, and the math is always right."
D
Daniela V.
Operating Partner · Taquería group
★★★★★
"As a distributor I was skeptical. But we win line items every week now from restaurants we never pitched. The orders just show up. It's the cheapest salesperson I've ever hired."
J
James P.
Owner, regional produce distributor
Pricing

Pays for itself
in the first week

Start free.
Pay when you win.

Flat pricing per location. No per-user fees. No contracts. Cancel anytime.

We only make money when you make money. No upfront risk.

Most popular
Growth
$149/mo per location
For growing groups who want full automation.
  • Unlimited vendors
  • Photo & handwriting parsing
  • Savings dashboard
  • Multi-location management
  • Unlimited approved numbers
  • One-tap order approval
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Enterprise
Custom
For groups with 10+ restaurants needing white-glove support.
  • Everything in Growth
  • Dedicated account manager
  • Custom onboarding
  • Priority 24/7 support
  • Volume discounts
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Basic
$0/mo
List for free. Pay only when you win an order.
  • Full marketplace listing
  • AI price sheet parsing
  • Order notifications
  • 2% commission per order
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$299/mo
Maximum exposure, lower fees, deeper data.
  • Featured search placement
  • 1% commission rate
  • Demand analytics
  • Real-time alerts
  • Priority parsing
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Enterprise
Custom
For broadline distributors at regional scale.
  • Everything in Pro
  • Custom commission rate
  • API integration
  • Dedicated account manager
  • Multi-region coverage
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