# Vantage [Verified] [Health: Active]

**Category:** 🎯 Marketing  
**Repository:** https://github.com/vantagemcp/vantage-mcp  
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**Directory Page:** https://allmcps.com/mcp/vantage

## Description
Checks whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini cite your brand or domain for a given keyword, and who's winning that citation instead. Hosted, streamable-HTTP, free tier available.

## Tools
Capabilities this server exposes over MCP:

- **get_usage** — How much of this billing period's quota is left, before spending any of it.
- **find_cited_questions** — Starts from your domain instead of a keyword: the questions where AI answers already cite it, most asked first. 10 units.
- **check_prompt_coverage** — Which of several prompts actually cite a specific domain, and which don't - up to 10 keywords in one call. ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity (`engine`), 1 unit per keyword per sample. Pass `samples=3` to get "cited in 2 of 3 answers" instead of one yes or no. Each result is remembered for 180 days, so…
- **get_check_history** — Your earlier `check_prompt_coverage` results for a domain, newest first. 0 units.
- **find_citation_leaders** — Who dominates AI-answer citations for a topic, and whether a domain is among them.
- **analyze_citation_trend** — Month-by-month mention counts for a domain, so you can see whether visibility is growing or fading.
- **analyze_citation_structure** — How the winning AI answer for a topic is actually shaped: list-led, sources cited, opening length.
- **analyze_citation_structure_batch** — Same as `analyze_citation_structure`, across up to 10 related topics in one call, for content planning across a cluster.
- **analyze_citation_gap** — Diffs your own page's structure against the winning AI-cited answer for the same keyword and returns a `fix_brief`: ordered rewrite instructions your agent can carry out on the page (opening, sections, the answer's points your page does not cover, table, sources), ending with one step beyond the pa…

## Claude Desktop Quick Installation
Remote MCP endpoint (confidence: high). Install path detected from listing signals. Add as a URL/SSE server in your client:

```json
"mcpServers": {
  "vantage": {
    "url": "https://vantagemcp.dev/mcp"
  }
}
```

## Documentation

## What the Vantage MCP server does

The Vantage MCP server examines how AI-generated search answers cite websites and brands. It can check whether a domain appears for selected prompts, identify the domains receiving the most citations for a topic, and track a domain’s monthly mention counts. The supplied description names ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini as supported AI systems; the README also references Google AI Overview.

Results focus on observed citations rather than general SEO metrics. The server separates a brand being named from a page being linked, which helps distinguish recognition from an actual citation. It also reports answer-shape details, such as whether the response begins with a list, how long its opening is, and how many sources it cites.

## How it works

The hosted service is exposed at `https://vantagemcp.dev/mcp` and uses a bearer API key in the MCP client configuration. Calls consume quota according to the operation. Usage lookup costs no units, prompt coverage costs one unit per keyword, and the deprecated basic visibility check costs ten units. Several analysis operations can process multiple topics in one request: prompt coverage supports up to 10 keywords, and batch citation-structure analysis supports up to 10 related topics.

The Vantage MCP server can also run locally. Its Python module starts an MCP process over stdio by default, or an HTTP service when launched with `--http`. Local operation still requires a DataForSEO account because that service supplies the underlying SERP and AI-answer data. Billing and account provisioning for Vantage itself are not included in the repository.

## Setup and configuration

For hosted use, add the MCP endpoint and an `Authorization: Bearer ...` header to the client configuration, then obtain a free API key from Vantage. The stated free allowance is 30 quota units per month and does not require a card. A no-account citation check is also available at `vantagemcp.dev/check`, but that page is separate from connecting an MCP client.

For a local installation, install the repository in editable mode with `uv pip install -e .`, set `DATAFORSEO_USERNAME` and `DATAFORSEO_PASSWORD`, and run `python -m vantage_mcp.server`. Add `--http` to use HTTP mode and set `VANTAGE_PORT` if a specific port is needed; the README gives 8420 as an example.

## Tools and capabilities

The Vantage MCP server provides these operations:

- `get_usage` checks remaining quota without spending units.
- `check_prompt_coverage` tests up to 10 keywords for citations to a domain and can separately inspect brand mentions.
- `find_citation_leaders` ranks domains cited for a topic and checks whether a chosen domain appears.
- `analyze_citation_trend` returns month-by-month mention counts for a domain.
- `analyze_citation_structure` describes the format of a winning cited answer.
- `analyze_citation_structure_batch` compares that format across up to 10 related topics.
- `analyze_citation_gap` compares a page with the winning AI-cited answer for the same keyword.

## Limitations and notes

The server measures sampled AI-answer citation behavior; it does not guarantee that changing a page will result in future citations. Quota applies to metered operations, and the old `check_ai_visibility` operation is retained but documented as deprecated. Self-hosting is not a complete billing or account-management system, and requires external DataForSEO credentials. The project is licensed under MIT.

_Full upstream README: https://allmcps.com/mcp/vantage/readme_