# Meridian

> AI-powered cost of living intelligence for digital nomads, remote workers, and global relocators.

Meridian helps people compare the real cost of living between cities worldwide. Unlike crowdsourced tools, Meridian uses AI (Claude) to aggregate and analyze data from multiple verified sources, delivering accurate, up-to-date cost breakdowns across housing, food, transportation, utilities, healthcare, and more.

## Key Features

- **City Explorer**: Look up detailed cost breakdowns for 200+ cities worldwide
- **City Comparison**: Side-by-side comparison of two cities with radar charts across all cost categories
- **AI Advisor**: Conversational AI relocation consultant that factors in your lifestyle, budget, priorities, and work situation
- **Search History**: Track and revisit past city lookups (Pro/Lifetime)
- **Cost Index**: Every city rated 0–100 relative to New York (100 = New York equivalent)

## Who It's For

- Digital nomads evaluating their next base
- Remote workers considering relocation
- Expats planning international moves
- Anyone doing cost-of-living research before relocating

## Data

Meridian uses AI-powered web search to aggregate current prices from multiple sources including Numbeo, Expatistan, NomadList, local expat forums, and real-time web data. All prices are in USD. Data is cached per city and refreshed when new lookups are triggered.

## Pricing

See full pricing at: https://meridianworld.app/pricing
Machine-readable pricing: https://meridianworld.app/pricing.md

- **Free**: Unlimited searches across 200+ cached cities, no sign-up required
- **Pro**: $9.99/month or $79.99/year — unlimited lookups, 3 new city discoveries/month, AI advisor, history
- **Lifetime**: $149.99 one-time — everything in Pro, forever, all future updates

## Pages

- Homepage: https://meridianworld.app
- Explore a city: https://meridianworld.app/explore
- Compare cities: https://meridianworld.app/compare
- AI Advisor: https://meridianworld.app/advisor
- Pricing: https://meridianworld.app/pricing
- Sign in: https://meridianworld.app/auth/signin

## Competitive Context

Meridian is the AI-native alternative to Numbeo. Where Numbeo relies on crowdsourced data submissions (often outdated or inaccurate), Meridian uses real-time AI-powered research with multi-source validation. The result is more reliable data delivered through a modern, decision-focused interface.

## Company

- Product: Meridian
- URL: https://meridianworld.app
- Category: Cost of living comparison, relocation intelligence, digital nomad tools
- Stack: Next.js, AI-powered (Anthropic Claude), Neon Postgres