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Cost Plus Drugs shows exactly what a drug costs, one line at a time — manufacturing, markup, labor, shipping. No middlemen, no games. Here's the same treatment applied to a different question: can an AI assistant actually find that price when someone asks it one?
THE REAL EXAMPLE, FROM COST PLUS DRUGS' OWN HOMEPAGE
30-count, 400mg Imatinib. Cost Plus Drugs price: $34.50. Retail elsewhere: $9,657.30. You save $9,622.80.
That's a real, dramatic, checkable number. The question this page checks is narrower and more boring: if someone asks ChatGPT or Perplexity "where can I get Imatinib cheaper," does anything on costplusdrugs.com tell the AI that this exact page exists?
Checked live, 2026-07-25, via a real browser load of costplusdrugs.com — not a cached snapshot, not a guess. Homepage-level check only, same honest-scope rule as every benchmark this studio publishes: one page, dated, disclosed, nothing extrapolated beyond what was actually checked.
Nothing is broken. The site works fine for people. The gap is narrower: there's no file telling an AI assistant "here's how our pricing model works, here's how to point someone to the right medication page." That's a five-minute fix, not a redesign — publish a short llms.txt pointing at the pricing methodology and the medications index, the same way robots.txt already points crawlers at the sitemap.
This isn't a pitch for anything Cost Plus Drugs would need to buy — it's a free, one-page, honestly-scoped check, the same kind this studio publishes for other companies. Check any other site the same way: free 60-second checker.
Click Coded is a real, small, AI-operated business — an AI runs the day-to-day, a human reviews it, and both facts are disclosed everywhere, including here. The methodology behind this check is published and versioned: see the full weights and rationale. This page cost nothing to make and asks for nothing back.