# The Front Desk Review **Category:** πŸ’° Finance & Fintech **Repository:** https://github.com/AlexandDunk/frontdesk-data **Views:** 0 **Installs:** 0 **Upvotes:** 0 **Directory Page:** https://allmcps.com/mcp/the-front-desk-review ## Description 4,764 products, 626 categories: sourced prices, dated price history, independent-test coverage. ## Claude Desktop Quick Installation Heuristic fallback β€” verify the package name and runner against the repository README before running it. Uses `npx` (confidence: low): ```json "mcpServers": { "the-front-desk-review": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y","the-front-desk-review"] } } ``` ## Documentation & README # frontdesk-data Independent, sourced data on what things cost and how they actually perform. **4,764 products** across **359 hardware categories**, plus software pricing across **267 categories** β€” every figure traced to its source (the vendor's own page URL and the date we captured it). Quote-only tiers and unknown specs are recorded as null rather than guessed. Nothing is invented. **Current version:** 2026-06-12. ## Query it live from an AI assistant (MCP) This dataset is served by a live **Model Context Protocol** server. No API key, no account, read-only. Every record an assistant receives carries its source URL and capture date, so any figure it repeats can be cited. **Endpoint:** `https://mcp.frontdeskreview.com/mcp` (Streamable HTTP) Claude Code: ```bash claude mcp add --transport http front-desk-review https://mcp.frontdeskreview.com/mcp ``` Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, Windsurf β€” add to the client's MCP config: ```json { "mcpServers": { "front-desk-review": { "type": "streamable-http", "url": "https://mcp.frontdeskreview.com/mcp" } } } ``` VS Code (Copilot agent) β€” `.vscode/mcp.json` uses a top-level `servers` key: ```json { "servers": { "front-desk-review": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.frontdeskreview.com/mcp" } } } ``` ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity can add it from their own connector settings β€” paste the endpoint and leave authentication set to **None**. Setup for every client: https://frontdeskreview.com/connect/ Registry entry: `com.frontdeskreview/front-desk-review-data` Β· server card: https://mcp.frontdeskreview.com/mcp/server-card ## Tools All 19 are read-only and annotated as such, so a client can call them without prompting on every request. | Tool | What it answers | | --- | --- | | `list_sections` | Every software/SaaS pricing theme covered, with slug, label and vendor count. | | `search_vendors` | Free-text search across a theme's vendors β€” names, domains, integrations, plan notes, capabilities. | | `compare` | Named vendors side by side within a theme, full sourced records. | | `get_normalized_pricing` | Effective monthly cost at a chosen volume, with flat, per-minute and per-call billing reduced to one comparable number. | | `get_benchmark` | One vendor's card: entry price, cost at reference volumes, compliance, free tier, integration breadth. | | `find_best` | β€œCheapest X with a free tier / HIPAA / SOC 2 / GDPR” β€” ranked, and never on an unverified claim. | | `list_coverage` | What the index covers, how many vendors, over what date range β€” and what it does not cover. | | `whats_changed` | Recent price changes, each dated and corroborated by two sources. | | `get_price_history` | The full dated price series for one product or vendor, plus archived points read off Internet Archive snapshots. | | `price_movers` | What moved most recently across a category or the whole index. | | `volatility_for_entity` | How much one product's price actually moves β€” withheld rather than guessed when the record is too thin. | | `most_volatile_in_category` | The least stable prices in a category, ranked. | | `list_product_categories` | Every hardware category, with product counts, comparable spec keys and brands. | | `search_products` | Free-text search inside a hardware category across names, brands and spec values. | | `compare_products` | Named products lined up on the spec keys that category actually compares on. | | `find_products` | β€œBest under $N” or β€œmost ” β€” filter and rank by price, release date or any spec. | | `get_independent_test_coverage` | How many independent labs measured a product, and what they measured β€” a count of evidence, never a rating. | | `list_cost_decoders` | Which categories have a cost decoder explaining what actually drives the bill. | | `get_cost_decoder` | The drivers behind a category's real cost, so a quoted price can be read properly. | ## Coverage - **Hardware** β€” 359 categories, 4,764 products with specs, prices and independent-test coverage. - **Software** β€” 267 categories of SMB/SaaS pricing, from AI receptionists and call tracking to CRM, VPNs and web hosting. - **Provenance** β€” 22,765 source citations; 88% of products carry a published price. ## Files - `.json` β€” full records, each figure with provenance (source URL + accessed date) - `.csv` β€” one flat row per plan/product, with source columns - `catalog.json` β€” schema.org DataCatalog index - `croissant.json` β€” ML Commons Croissant 1.1 descriptor (Google Dataset Search / Hugging Face) - `datapackage.json` β€” Frictionless Data Package (Table Schema per CSV) - `CITATION.cff` β€” machine-readable citation - `LICENSE` β€” CC BY 4.0 ## Methodology Published prices are normalized to a common monthly basis; both the raw published figure and the normalized one are kept. Each row carries its own `accessedAt` date and is re-checked on a rolling basis. Independent-test coverage counts how many labs measured a product β€” a count of evidence, never a rating. Full methodology: https://frontdeskreview.com/data ## License CC BY 4.0 β€” free to use with attribution to The Front Desk Review (https://frontdeskreview.com). See `CITATION.cff`.