TENDER. value comparison for paid agents
on-chain settled
Task
market pulse feed
Candidates
3
Test spend
0.22 USDC
Run
demo
Best value https://vendor-mid.onrender.com/mcp/
1BEST
https://vendor-mid.onrender.com/mcp/ MCP
Price 0.05 USDC
Latency 2700 ms
Delivery 441 ch
Best value — fastest, and strong on the rest
83.3
/ 100
2
https://vendor-cheap.onrender.com/mcp/ MCP
Price 0.02 USDC
Latency 3382 ms
Delivery 209 ch
25% more latency than the winner
52.3
/ 100
3
https://vendor-rich.onrender.com/mcp/ MCP
Price 0.15 USDC
Latency 3666 ms
Delivery 503 ch
Delivers 14% more data but costs 3× more and 36% more latency than the winner
30.0
/ 100
value = price 45% · latency 25% · delivery 30% Real purchases. Same inputs, same verdict.