A side-by-side look at the Agentreader MCP and X402 Cloudflare Starter MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Agentreader MCP for finance & fintech work as a local process; choose X402 Cloudflare Starter for finance & fintech. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
AGENTREADER_PRIVATE_KEY.read_page, page_metadata, clean_html.BASE_ADDRESS, SOLANA_ADDRESS.Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Category | Finance & Fintech | Finance & Fintech |
| Quality signal | 52/100 · Good | 27/100 · Emerging |
| Install command | Confirmed | Not confirmed yet |
| Transport | Local subprocess (stdio) | — |
| Auth | Not declared | Not declared |
| Pricing | Not declared | Not declared |
| Required env vars | AGENTREADER_PRIVATE_KEY | BASE_ADDRESSSOLANA_ADDRESS |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 0 | 1 |
| Directory activity | 2 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 13 | Not listed |
| Full listing | View Agentreader MCP | View X402 Cloudflare Starter |
read_pageWeb page → clean LLM-ready markdown articlepage_metadataTitle, OpenGraph, Twitter cards, JSON-LD, headingsclean_htmlRaw HTML → markdownpdf_textPDF URL → full text (up to 25 MB)parse_feedRSS/Atom/RDF feed → normalized JSON itemsparse_sitemapXML sitemap → URL listextract_linksPage link graph with anchor textdns_lookupDNS records with TTLsscreenshotReal-browser PNG screenshotsummarizeAI summary of URL or text (dense, factual)extract_structuredPage/text → JSON matching **your** JSON Schemasanctions_screenOFAC SDN + Consolidated screening: fuzzy transliteration-aware name match or crypto-address lookup, with verdict + list provenanceNo tool names declared yet. Check the project README from the listing page.
Paste either block (or both) into your client config, e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json. We only show a config when the install command is confirmed.
{
"mcpServers": {
"agentreader-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"agentreader-mcp"
],
"env": {
"AGENTREADER_PRIVATE_KEY": "YOUR_AGENTREADER_PRIVATE_KEY_HERE"
}
}
}
}
No confirmed install command for X402 Cloudflare Starter yet — follow the setup steps linked from its listing page rather than a guessed package name.