Official inflation measures averages. You experience it individually. TALLY Insights tracks price changes across everyday products, exposes hidden fees, monitors shrinkflation, and explains — with evidence — why every dollar you spend costs more than it used to.
TALLY combines official datasets, licensed pricing feeds, and rigorously verified community contributions. Every number ships with its source, methodology, and confidence — the same standards a research desk would demand.
Ask a specialized AI assistant about US inflation, prices, and cost-of-living.
The primary way to explore the platform. Ask why prices are moving, how CPI is constructed, or how two cities compare. Every substantive claim is labelled Public data, Explainer, or Estimate.
A public database of consumer prices with historical charts back to January 2025.
Browse groceries, transportation, housing, healthcare, utilities, subscriptions, restaurants and more. Every product page ships with a monthly price chart and CSV / JSON downloads.
When the price stays the same and the package quietly gets smaller.
Side-by-side package comparisons with effective inflation math — from cereal boxes to laundry detergent to premium ice cream.
Cost-of-living for the 100 largest US cities.
Housing, groceries, utilities, and transportation indexed against the US average. Every city gets its own inflation portal with historical charts since January 2025.
How streaming, software, and news subscription pricing has moved since 2022.
A curated basket of common household subscriptions with year-over-year price change and category breakdowns.
Long-form reports and explainers on US inflation and cost-of-living.
A growing archive of readable publications beginning January 2025 — CPI releases, grocery trends, housing, gasoline, insurance, restaurants, and more.
Every airline, hotel, bank, ticketing site, delivery app, apartment operator, and telecom is scored on the distance between advertised prices and final receipts. Community submissions are triangulated against invoices, screenshots, and repeat observations before publication.
Ask questions in plain language. Get answers about inflation, cost-of-living, product pricing trends, hidden fees, and shrinkflation — grounded in publicly available economic data from the BLS, USDA, and other government sources.
Your Q3 groceries rose +13.8% vs Q2. Three drivers explain 91% of the change:
Estimated savings if you revert coffee brand and split shopping 60/40: $612/yr.
TALLY Insights is free, independent, and fully public. Ask the AI assistant a question, or jump straight into the price explorer and the city index.