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mcpcost
Health and token cost of every remote MCP registry server, probed daily. Look up, search, or probe.
First seen 15 Oct 2026. Evidence as of 14 Nov 2026.
5
Tools
From an anonymous probe
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Source listings
Each with its own history
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Since first seen
Tools
| Tool | Description | Behaviour |
|---|---|---|
| check_server | Connects to an MCP server URL now (initialize and tools/list, 10 s timeout) and reports status, protocol, how a client gets access, tool names and the token cost of the tool definitions: exact in Claude when the counter is available, else an estimate from the schema size. Use it for a URL that is not in the official registry, or to see the state this minute; for a registry server prefer lookup_server, which is instant. Sends no credentials: a server that needs them comes back with status "auth", not an error. A URL that is not https, or a server that does not answer, returns its failure as status and error. The requests are the ones the MCP specification defines for a client (https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification): the initialize handshake and tools/list over Streamable HTTP or SSE; the tool calls no tool of the server. | Read-only |
| compare_servers | Puts two to five registry servers next to each other from the board's latest daily probe: status, how a client gets in, tool count, token cost (exact in Claude when counted, else the estimate), share of a 200k window and initialize latency, with the cheapest, the most expensive and the spread. Use it to choose between servers that do the same job; use lookup_server for the full record of one server, search_servers to find candidates, and check_server for a URL that is not in the registry. Instant, no connection to the servers. A name the board does not know gets a row with status "unknown" and the comparison goes on. format picks the text layout (JSON, a Markdown table, or CSV to paste into a spreadsheet); the structured content is always JSON. | Read-only |
| lookup_server | Reads the board's latest daily probe of one server in the official MCP registry: status, how a client gets access, the exact Claude token cost of its tool definitions, tool count, latency and the most expensive tools. Instant, no connection to the server. Use it when the server is in the registry; use search_servers when you do not know its name, and check_server to probe a URL that is not in the registry. A name or URL that is not on the board returns isError with a short message. | Read-only |
| registry_summary | Aggregates of the latest daily run over the whole official MCP registry: how many servers answer and why the rest do not, token cost percentiles and the exact-to-estimate ratio, how servers authenticate, protocol versions, transports, the heaviest servers and the biggest publishers. Use it for the state of the registry as a whole; use lookup_server or search_servers for one server. No input; the answer is a few kilobytes of JSON. | Read-only |
| search_servers | Finds servers on the board by words in their name, title, description or host, with optional filters, sorted by exact Claude token cost (highest first) by default. With no query and no filter it ranks the whole board, so page 1 is the most expensive servers in the registry and sort=claude-asc the cheapest. Use it to discover servers or to rank them by cost; use lookup_server once you have a name, compare_servers for a few side by side, registry_summary for the totals. Returns up to 20 servers per page with name, host, status, tool count and tokens. Page numbers go to 20; after that pass the `next` value of the previous answer as `cursor`. Sorting by the estimate, latency, protocol or registry date needs a query or a small status; on a bigger list the answer keeps the token order and says so in `sort`. | Read-only |
Change history
- search_servers: input schema changed
- search_servers: annotations changed
- registry_summary: input schema changed
- registry_summary: annotations changed
- lookup_server: input schema changed
- lookup_server: annotations changed
- compare_servers: input schema changed
- compare_servers: annotations changed
- check_server: input schema changed
- check_server: description changed (+"The requests are the ones the MCP specification defines for a client (https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification): the initialize handshake and tools/list over Streamable HTTP or SSE; the tool calls no tool of the server.")
- check_server: annotations changed
- search_servers: input schema changed
- lookup_server: input schema changed
- check_server: input schema changed
- search_servers: input schema changed
- lookup_server: input schema changed
- check_server: input schema changed
- search_servers: input schema changed
- registry_summary: input schema changed
- lookup_server: input schema changed
- check_server: input schema changed
- search_servers: input schema changed
- search_servers: description changed (+"Finds" +"on the board" +"their")
- search_servers: annotations changed
- registry_summary: input schema changed
- registry_summary: description changed (+"run over the whole official MCP registry:" +"answer and why the rest do not," +"percentiles and the exact-to-estimate ratio, how servers authenticate,")
- registry_summary: annotations changed
- lookup_server: input schema changed
- lookup_server: description changed (+"Reads the board's latest daily" +"in" +"how a client gets access, the")
- lookup_server: annotations changed
- compare_servers: tool added
- check_server: input schema changed
- check_server: description changed (+"how a client gets access, tool names" +"Use it for a URL that is not in the official registry, or to see the state this minute; for a" +"server")
- check_server: annotations changed
- server instructions changed (+"compare_servers to put two to five next to each other,")
- search_servers: input schema changed
- search_servers: description changed (+"Sorting by the estimate, latency, protocol or registry date needs a query or a small status; on a bigger list the answer keeps the token order and says so in `sort`.")
- search_servers: input schema changed
- Listed (registry)
| Source | Listing | First seen | Last seen | Versions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Official MCP Registry | io.github.ondraulehla/mcpcost | 15 Oct 2026 | 14 Nov 2026 | 1 |