How do I install Shortlist Price Index?

Copy the http config for Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or VS Code on this page. It uses the publisher's install, not a PlugMCP proxy.

Does Shortlist Price Index need an API key?

No required environment variable is listed on this record.

What transport does Shortlist Price Index use?

Shortlist Price Index is reached over HTTP.

When was Shortlist Price Index last checked?

Last checked 2026-11-09. Software prices for AI agents: hosting, SEO, backup, antivirus, email and more. True 3-year cost

Shortlist Price Index MCP server

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Server URL

https://shortlist-mcp.vercel.app/mcp

The Claude button above opens Claude with the name and URL filled in. You still confirm it there.

shClaude Code

1claude mcp add --transport http io.github.ies86-shortlist-price-index https://shortlist-mcp.vercel.app/mcp

Run in a terminal.

jsonClaude Desktop

1{2  "mcpServers": {3    "io.github.ies86-shortlist-price-index": {4      "command": "npx",5      "args": [6        "-y",7        "mcp-remote",8        "https://shortlist-mcp.vercel.app/mcp"9      ]10    }11  }12}

claude_desktop_config.json

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A new server you create. It is not this listing's official endpoint. Use the publisher install when you want their URL and their credentials.

Launch

Server facts

Remote

Transport: http
Version: 1.2.2
Last checked

Tools

No tool list yet. Remote servers get one after the first health check.

FAQ

Questions

Shortlist Price Index MCP server

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that gives AI agents software pricing data: entry prices (lowest paid plan per provider) and the true 3-year cost for categories such as web hosting, SEO tools, cloud backup, antivirus, password managers and email marketing, in USD and for the Dutch market in EUR. Prices are compiled from each provider's public pricing page and republished monthly since June 2026. An automated price watcher re-checks the figures against those pricing pages; figures it cannot confirm automatically (for example because of regional pricing or a cookie wall) are flagged for manual review. Each index carries the date its figures were last updated, and a category whose latest index is older than 35 days is withheld until its next verified refresh, so an agent never quotes an outdated price. Published as open data under CC BY 4.0 by Orai Media.

Endpoint: https://shortlist-mcp.vercel.app/mcp (streamable HTTP, no auth, free)

Tools

Tool	What it does
`list_categories`	The categories that are current, with slugs, units, currencies and the date of the latest update
`get_price_index`	Full index for one category: average, median, cheapest, every provider sorted by price, monthly history, methodology
`get_true_3yr_cost`	Honest 3-year cost per provider (year 1 intro, years 2-3 at renewal), ranked by real total, with the renewal multiplier. Published for web hosting and antivirus today
`get_cheapest`	The N cheapest providers in a category right now, with a link to the full comparison

Every response includes a citation string and the CC BY 4.0 license note, so agents can attribute figures correctly.

Add to Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http shortlist-prices https://shortlist-mcp.vercel.app/mcp

Add to any MCP client

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shortlist-prices": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://shortlist-mcp.vercel.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Example questions your agent can now answer

"What does an SEO tool cost per month right now, and which three are cheapest?"
"Which web host is cheapest over three years, once the renewal price kicks in?"
"Which antivirus suite costs the least over three years?"
"Wat kost een wachtwoordmanager per maand in Nederland?"

Sources

Every figure comes from the price index page of the comparison guide that publishes it. Each response carries that page as its citation.

Category	Source
Cloud backup	BackupShortlist Price Index
Web hosting	HostingShortlist Price Index
SEO tools	SEOShortlist Price Index
Website builders	WebsiteShortlist Price Index
Antivirus	AntivirusShortlist Price Index
Email marketing	MailShortlist Price Index
Password managers	PasswordShortlist Price Index
Web hosting (Netherlands, EUR)	KiesHosting Prijsindex
Password managers (Netherlands, EUR)	Wachtwoordkiezer Prijsindex
Newsletter tools (Netherlands, EUR)	Nieuwsbriefkiezer Prijsindex

Data

The server reads the live Price Index JSON endpoints of the Shortlist comparison sites (republished monthly, cached one hour) and the open dataset repository:

Dataset with monthly history: https://github.com/ies86/shortlist-price-index
Kaggle mirror: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ries86/shortlist-price-index

License: data CC BY 4.0 (attribution + link to the cited source site), code MIT.

Run locally

npm install
npm run dev
# MCP endpoint on http://localhost:3000/mcp

Self-host with Docker

The included Dockerfile builds a self-contained image of the same server (the production endpoint above is the hosted equivalent):

docker build -t shortlist-mcp .
docker run -p 3000:3000 shortlist-mcp
# MCP endpoint on http://localhost:3000/mcp

Built with mcp-handler on Next.js, deployed on Vercel.

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Server facts

Tools

Questions

How do I install Shortlist Price Index?

Does Shortlist Price Index need an API key?

What transport does Shortlist Price Index use?

When was Shortlist Price Index last checked?

Documentation

Shortlist Price Index MCP server

Tools

Add to Claude Code

Add to any MCP client

Example questions your agent can now answer

Sources

Data

Run locally

Self-host with Docker