As of 13 August 2026, AI can compare two pricing options for your proposal.

What to actually do

1. Use a tool built for this

   The route this page recommends

2. Do it yourself

   Second choice

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 15 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the current price list, scope documents and approval rules that apply to the proposal.
   2. Gather the customer’s stated needs, decision criteria, required timing and any agreed commercial constraints.
   3. Paste both complete pricing options into the prompt, including prices, currency, scope, inclusions, exclusions, assumptions, timing and terms.
   4. Paste your internal limits into the constraints section, including any price floor, margin rule, delivery limit or approval requirement.
   5. Ask the model to produce the side-by-side comparison, identify missing information and recommend an option only where the facts support it.
   6. Compare every price, calculation, scope item and promise in the draft against your current documents and correct any unsupported wording.
   7. Send the customer-facing explanation through your normal approval process with the selected option, final price and agreed terms.

   Prompt

   Compare the two pricing options below for a customer proposal. Use only the information supplied and do not invent costs, features, delivery dates, savings, margins or customer requirements.
   
   Customer and deal context:
   [PASTE THE RELEVANT CUSTOMER NEED, DECISION CRITERIA AND COMMERCIAL CONTEXT]
   
   Our constraints:
   [PASTE PRICE FLOOR, MARGIN RULES, DELIVERY LIMITS, APPROVAL RULES AND ANY TERMS THAT MUST NOT CHANGE]
   
   Option 1:
   [PASTE THE FULL PRICE, CURRENCY, SCOPE, INCLUSIONS, EXCLUSIONS, ASSUMPTIONS, TIMING AND TERMS]
   
   Option 2:
   [PASTE THE FULL PRICE, CURRENCY, SCOPE, INCLUSIONS, EXCLUSIONS, ASSUMPTIONS, TIMING AND TERMS]
   
   Return:
   1. A side-by-side table of price, scope, inclusions, exclusions, assumptions, timing, risks and customer value.
   2. Any differences or missing information that could change the decision.
   3. A clear recommendation only if the supplied facts support one. Otherwise say what must be clarified.
   4. A short explanation suitable for the customer, without revealing internal margins or confidential reasoning.
   5. A separate list of every factual statement and calculation I must check before sending.
   Show arithmetic explicitly and label all assumptions. Do not describe either option as cheaper, better value or more suitable unless the comparison supports that wording.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

3. Hand it to a person

   The distant third

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.