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Use case · Pricing & Cost Benchmarks · Cross-Market Price Arbitrage v.04.2026 · refreshed weekly
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Pricing & Cost Benchmarks Buyer view Molecule · linagliptin Data · trade flowsData · molecule catalog Live

Cross-Market Price Arbitrage

Surface the same molecule clearing at 10x or 1000x the price into different destination markets. The geographic price-differentiation map for any API.

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Example output · linagliptin API, India-out, 2024 · 15 destination markets, 33 shipments to Turkey alone
$2,200.00 USD/kg · median · the bid line
n=33 shipments to top destination · trade warehouse Indicative

Linagliptin clears the India-out lanes across 15 destination markets in 2024 with a 794x price ratio between the cheapest and most expensive medians. Turkey clears at $2,200/kg median; Jordan goes higher at $2,089; Saudi Arabia sits at $2.77/kg on volume contract shipments. The same molecule, the same origin, the same year. The implication is direct: a buyer applying a single global list price to all 15 destinations is leaving multiples of margin on the high-paying lanes.

p25 · aggressive entry
$111.25
deals get done
median · the bid line
$2,200.00
where the market clears
p75 · premium
$3,952.29
likely loses
Distribution · 13 price buckets
$3
$25
$240
$300
$555
$628
$664
$767
$839
$1,000
$1,200
$2,089
$2,200
Destination markets
15
Max median (TR)
$2,200
Min median (SA)
$2.77
Max/min ratio
794x
30 seconds

How it works

molecule losartan origin IN destination BR
01

Pick a molecule + origin country.

Type the molecule and origin. The AI agent pulls every destination market with declared clearance volume on the lane in the last 12 months.

0 HHI 0.42 1
computed · pre-joined · anonymised
02

The AI agent computes the cross-market ratio.

Median USD/kg per destination is sorted, the max-to-min ratio is computed, and outlier rows below 5x global p10 are flagged separately.

brief · cited
Lane concentration · structurally concentrated
HHI0.42
Top-3 share71%
Actionqualify second source
03

Save the arbitrage map.

Citation-anchored brief: the destination price ranking, the implied revenue uplift from shifting volume to high-paying lanes, and a flag where lanes have under 10 shipments (low confidence).

Why a commercial team runs it

The price-differentiation map, on tap.

Lane-level, not country-level.

Same destination can carry multiple clearance bands when buyer types differ. PharmaDB surfaces each lane's percentile band so the arbitrage map is at the lane resolution, not a country average.

Ratio-flagged automatically.

Lanes where the high-paying market clears at more than 10x the cheapest are flagged. These are the markets where a single global list price leaves multiples of margin on the table.

Counterparty-safe.

Destination-level medians aggregate across exporters. Identities are aggregated and anonymised; the disclaimer is respected at the query layer.

Refreshes weekly.

Trade aggregates flow in weekly. The arbitrage map moves with the market; the brief carries the exact computation timestamp.

What a real chat looks like

Type a question. The AI agent returns the arbitrage map.

A real chat thread in PharmaDB. Type a question, the AI agent runs the tools, the answer lands as a saveable note.

Cross-market arbitrage · linagliptin → 15 destinations
chat · saved 2 min ago
You
For linagliptin API on the India-out lanes, which destinations clear at the widest premium to the cheapest market?
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Running tool pharmagraph_query
molecule_country_flow · linagliptin · 15 destinations · IN-origin · 2024
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Linagliptin India-out clears 15 destinations in 2024 across a 794x median ratio. Turkey ($2,200), Jordan ($2,089), Korea ($1,000), and Philippines ($1,200) form the top-paying tier. Saudi Arabia at $2.77/kg and the Iraq lane at $23.22 sit in the volume-contract band. A buyer holding both Turkey and Saudi at the same list price is leaving the difference on every shipment.
Destination markets
15
Top-paying lane
Turkey · $2,200
Cheapest lane
Saudi Arabia · $2.77
Spread ratio
794x
Cited molecule_country_flow 15 destinations lane_competitiveness per-lane HHI molecule_catalog INN matched
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Manual workflow vs. PharmaDB.

Manual workflow
Excel · email · syndicated reports
  1. 01 Pull trade declarations across destinations 4-6 hr
  2. 02 Filter to molecule-matched shipments 1-2 hr
  3. 03 Compute median per destination 2 hr
  4. 04 Rank, compute ratios, flag outliers 1-2 hr
  5. 05 Estimate uplift from reallocation 3-4 hr
Total cycle time 2 days per molecule
PharmaDB
The AI agent · one query · cited
One query.
Pre-joined warehouse. Customs is matched to molecule catalog, destination-level medians and the max-to-min ratio are pre-computed. The AI agent returns the ranked map with citation.
Total cycle time Under a minute
Run it across your portfolio

Where the destination price ratio sits, per molecule.

Twelve molecules · India-out 2024 · USD/kg destination medians, computed across 5+ markets.

Losartan IN-out · 15 markets
$48.20
→ 0%
Imatinib IN-out · 13 markets
$72.10
↓ 3%
Telmisartan IN-out · 21 markets
$130.50
↓ 4%
Valsartan IN-out · 9 markets
$143.00
↑ 2%
Vildagliptin IN-out · 15 markets
$184.90
↓ 12%
Sitagliptin IN-out · 18 markets
$271.90
↓ 8%
Enzalutamide IN-out · 10 markets
$343.60
↑ 5%
Dolutegravir IN-out · 7 markets
$419.10
↓ 6%
Sacubitril IN-out · 6 markets
$473.70
↓ 4%
Tofacitinib IN-out · 6 markets
$675.00
↑ 1%
Linagliptin IN-out · 15 markets
$794.20
↑ 9%
Apixaban IN-out · 8 markets
$965.00
↑ 7%
IQR (p25–p75) Median USD/kg ↓ YoY price drop · margin pressure · ↑ YoY price rise · tighter market

Cross-market arbitrage is the price-differentiation map. PharmaDB pulls the destination-level medians for any molecule on the India-out (or any other origin) lanes, sorts them, and surfaces the ratio. The view is molecule_country_flow; the join is to the molecule catalog. Refresh cadence is weekly.

FAQ

Frequently asked

What is cross-market price arbitrage?+

The observation that the same molecule, exported from the same origin in the same year, clears at very different median prices into different destination markets. The ratio of the highest to lowest median is the arbitrage signal. Large ratios mean a buyer applying a single list price is leaving margin on high-paying lanes.

Why is the linagliptin Turkey lane so much more expensive than the Saudi lane?+

Turkey and Korea typically clear smaller volumes at branded-equivalent prices; Saudi Arabia is one of the largest tender markets for linagliptin, where multi-exporter participation anchored to a published reference price compresses the lane median. The ratio is not a single buyer; it is a tender-market vs commercial-market structural difference.

How are aggressive outliers handled?+

Lanes with fewer than 5 declared shipments are excluded from the ratio compute. Rows with USD/kg below 0.01 are flagged as unit-mismatched and shown separately. The headline ratio uses cleaned medians only.

Is this just an artefact of FX or transfer pricing?+

Trade values are USD at clearance, so FX is not the source of the spread. Intra-group transfer pricing can artificially compress one lane; PharmaDB surfaces a chip when a single counterparty dominates the lane's shipments, so the user can discount that data point.

How fresh is the data?+

Trade aggregates refresh weekly. The arbitrage map recomputes on every refresh; the catalog row carries the exact timestamp surfaced on the result page.

How is this different from an API price benchmark?+

A benchmark gives the percentile band for one lane. The arbitrage map ranks all destinations for the same molecule. Both are derived from the same warehouse; the arbitrage map is the destination-comparison view.

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