Pay what you’re
actually meant to.
Hidden fees. Cookie tricks. Drip pricing. Engineered urgency. Taresense exposes the games before you check out — and tells you what to do about it.
3 free checks per day · no card required · install the extension
One click, on every page.
Install Taresense in Chrome, Brave, Edge or Arc. The extension scans whatever page you’re on — in your real session, with your real cookies — so it works on Airbnb, Etsy, Vrbo, Best Buy, and the rest of the bot-walled web.
Any receipt — structured JSON in seconds.
Drop a screenshot of a checkout, a photo of a paper receipt, or a PDF page. We classify every line as item / fee / tax / tip, tag fees by sub-category, and emit canonical JSON your stack can use directly. Free to try, API-friendly.
Online prices are theater. A number designed to make you click, knowing the real total comes later.
Taresense is a single-purpose tool: paste any link, see what you’ll actually pay, and learn what to do about it.
We open the same page twice
Once with your cookies, once clean. The price difference is the manipulation.
We add up every fee
Resort fees, service charges, processing — surfaced upfront, before checkout.
We rank what to do
Open in incognito. Wait 4 hours. Switch region. Concrete actions, ranked by impact.
We never take merchant money
No affiliate fees, no preferred partners. Trust is the product. The moment it isn't, this stops working.
Six tactics. One scan.
The longer you’ve been searching, the more it costs. We compare a clean session to your real one.
Resort fees, service charges, processing — revealed only at checkout. We surface them upfront.
Real demand or manufactured urgency? We track price volatility per listing across users.
Sometimes by 40%. We compare regional pricing where it’s legal to do so.
Engineered scarcity, designed to short-circuit your judgment. We flag when the copy is the trick.
Defaulted to opt-in, hoping you don’t notice. We list every one, on by default.
One number for how much a listing is messing with you.
Zero is honest. One hundred is full theater — cookie tracking, hidden fees, urgency copy, and pre-checked add-ons stacked on a price that moved three times in the last hour. The number is the headline. The findings are the receipts.
You're not paranoid. The numbers are real.
Estimated annual cost to US consumers from junk fees and hidden charges.
FTC, 2023 NPRMAverage lift in checkout completion when prices are split into base + drip fees.
Behavioral economics researchCollected by US airlines in baggage fees alone in 2022 — rarely shown on the search page.
US Department of TransportationHonest, like the prices we want to see.
- 3 checks per day
- All six manipulation detectors
- Truth Score
- Action suggestions
- Unlimited checks
- Full scan history
- Price volatility tracking over time
- Shareable scam cards
- Browser extension (early access)
Frequently asked.
No. Taresense works on any link, on any device, without installing anything. Pro users get an extension as an option, but the core is a paste-a-link tool.
Never. We take no money from the businesses we measure. No affiliate links, no preferred partners. The whole product breaks the moment that changes, and we know it.
It is an estimate, not a verdict. We aim for the score to be directionally right at least 80% of the time on supported categories. The findings beneath the score show our work, so you can judge for yourself.
We fetch publicly accessible pages the same way a browser does. We don't bypass authentication or paywalls. We position Taresense as an insight and estimate tool, never as legal or financial advice.
Today: flights, hotels, tickets, food delivery, rideshare, and major e-commerce. Other categories return a generic check. We expand coverage based on real usage.