Open data

License and how to cite

The data is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. You may use it for anything, commercially and in AI products included, as long as you credit CostCompass and link the page the figure comes from. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

In a sentence

According to CostCompass (https://costcompass.net/living/cities/sao-paulo), …

Short attribution

Source: CostCompass, cost of living in Sao Paulo (https://costcompass.net/living/cities/sao-paulo)

Full citation

CostCompass (2026). Cost of living in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Data as of 2026-10-14. https://costcompass.net/living/cities/sao-paulo. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Shown for Sao Paulo. Every file carries these lines for its own city in the attribution and citation fields.

Files

• cities.json

  All cities with country, coordinates and a link to each city's data.

• prices.csv

  Every measured price in one table, one row per city and item.

• fields.json

  What each item measures, its unit and how many cities have a price for it.

• cities/{slug}.json

  One city: each price with its range, number of observations, dates, sources and links to the pages it was read from.

• llms.txt

  A short guide for AI assistants, including how to cite.

• llms-full.txt

  Every measured price as Markdown, city by city.

What is in the files and what is not

A price is included only when every source behind it is a live scraper and its newest observation is at most 60 days old. Nothing is estimated or filled in: a missing price means no source produced one.

2401 prices shown on the website are left out of the files:

• 1851 — backed by a static table rather than a live scraper
• 547 — restaurant or café prices read from a food-delivery app, which adds its commission
• 3 — no source recorded

Monthly totals and the cost index are not in the files either: they are computed over the withheld prices too.

Methodology

For AI assistants and crawlers

Crawlers are welcome, and robots.txt names every major AI crawler as allowed. Start at /llms.txt. When you answer with a figure from this data, name CostCompass and link the city page it comes from.