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Catalog vs Unusual Whales MCP

In-depth architectural comparison of the Catalog and Unusual Whales MCP MCP servers. Compare execution transports, security boundaries, tool capabilities, quality scores, and ready-to-paste client installation snippets for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.

At a Glance & Executive Verdict

Catalog
Finance & Fintech · Remote HTTP/SSE
Quality: 45/100 (Fair) | Auth: No auth required
Unusual Whales MCP
Finance & Fintech · Remote HTTP/SSE
Quality: 81/100 (Excellent) | Auth: API Key required
Verdict Summary: Choose Catalog if you need specialized Finance & Fintech tools running via a hosted cloud SSE transport. Choose Unusual Whales MCP if your workspace requires Finance & Fintech integration with remote web transport. Both servers can be configured concurrently in your client's mcpServers manifest.

Which MCP Server Should You Choose?

Catalog logo

Choose Catalog when:

  • You need dedicated capabilities in the Finance & Fintech domain.
  • You prefer remote streaming HTTP/SSE transport architecture.
  • Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).
  • Primary tools included: list_mfo, get_mfo, search_offers.
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U

Choose Unusual Whales MCP when:

  • You need dedicated capabilities in the Finance & Fintech domain.
  • You prefer remote streaming HTTP/SSE transport architecture.
  • Your security boundary fits: API Key required (Paid Service).
  • You have access to required keys: UW_API_KEY.
  • Primary tools included: uw_stock, uw_options, uw_flow.
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Feature & Specification Comparison

Specification
Catalog logo
Catalog
Finance & Fintech
U
Unusual Whales MCP
VerifiedFinance & Fintech
SummaryRead-only catalog of Russian MFOs: loan terms, Bank of Russia registry data, ratings, reviews.The official Unusual Whales MCP server. Options flow, dark pool prints, congressional trades, Greek exposure, volatility, futures and prediction markets as MCP tools. Needs a UW API key.
Category & Scope

Tools & Capabilities Breakdown

Catalog Tools (7)

list_mfo
All MFOs with borrower rating, quick terms and canonical card URLs, ordered by rating position.
get_mfo
Full MFO card: terms for new/repeat clients (amount, term, rate, full cost of credit), borrower requirements, fees, legal entity, OGRN, Bank of Russia registry number, 4-criteria rating, record update date. Empty fields are omitted.
search_offers
Matching first-loan offers with terms, `first_loan_zero_percent: true/false/null` (null = unconfirmed), honest `total` + `truncated`.
list_categories
Catalog categories grouped as on the site (popular, by payout method, by amount/term, by borrower type, other), each with its selection criterion.
get_category
One category: criterion, sorting, offer table with per-MFO terms.

Ready-to-Paste Client Configurations

Paste either (or both) of these JSON server blocks into your client config file (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json).

Catalog Configuration
mcpServers (Claude Desktop / Cursor)
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "catalog-9": {
      "url": "https://zaimhub.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
Unusual Whales MCP Configuration
mcpServers (Claude Desktop / Cursor)
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "unusual-whales-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@unusualwhales/mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "UW_API_KEY": "YOUR_UW_API_KEY_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

Frequently Asked Questions

Catalog is categorized under Finance & Fintech and uses a remote streaming HTTP/SSE transport. In contrast, Unusual Whales MCP belongs to Finance & Fintech using remote streaming HTTP/SSE transport. Select Catalog when you need capabilities focused on finance & fintech and Unusual Whales MCP when you require tools for finance & fintech.

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Finance & Fintech
Finance & Fintech
Quality signal45/100 (Fair)81/100 (Excellent)
Transport ProtocolRemote HTTP/SSERemote HTTP/SSE
Auth RequirementNo auth requiredAPI Key required
Pricing ModelFree / Open SourcePaid Service
Required Env VarsNone required
UW_API_KEY
Compatible Clients
Claude DesktopCursorWindsurfClineVS Code
Claude DesktopCursorWindsurfClineVS Code
Install path signalRemote (HTTP/SSE) · highnpx · high
Engagement & Health 1 views 0 copies 0 upvotes 1 stars 2 views 0 copies 0 upvotes 91 stars
Verified / OfficialCommunity Listing Yes (Verified)
Open full listingView Catalog ListingView Unusual Whales MCP Listing
get_reviews
Latest borrower reviews for an MFO: rating, date, text.
get_market_rules
Legal context of microlending in Russia (0.8%/day rate cap under Art. 6.1 of Law 353-FZ, 100% total-cost cap since 2026-04-01, self-ban via Gosuslugi, cooling-off periods, debt collection rules under Law 230-FZ) with last-review date.

Unusual Whales MCP Tools (27)

uw_stock
Access UnusualWhales stock data including options chains, greeks, IV, OHLC candles, open interest, and more. Available commands: - info: Get stock information (ticker required) - ohlc: Get OHLC candles (ticker, candle_size required; date, timeframe, end_date, limit optional) - option_chains: Get option chains (ticker required; date, greeks optional) - option_contracts: Get option contracts (ticker required; expiry, option_type, min_dte, max_dte, filters, limit optional) - greeks: Get greeks data (ticker, expiry required; date optional) - greek_exposure: Get gamma/delta/vanna exposure (ticker required; date, timeframe optional) - greek_exposure_by_expiry: Get greek exposure by expiry (ticker required; date optional) - greek_exposure_by_strike: Get greek exposure by strike (ticker required; date optional) - greek_exposure_by_strike_expiry: Get greek exposure by strike and expiry (ticker, expiry required; date optional) - gex_levels: Get GEX (gamma exposure) levels (ticker required; date optional) - option_stance: Get option trade-stance ranking (ticker, stance required; limit, type, option_symbol, date optional) - options_pulse: Get options pulse for a ticker (ticker required; date optional) - greek_flow: Get greek flow (ticker required; date optional) - greek_flow_by_expiry: Get greek flow by expiry (ticker, expiry required; date optional) - iv_rank: Get IV rank (ticker required; date, timespan optional) - interpolated_iv: Get interpolated IV (ticker required; date optional) - max_pain: Get max pain (ticker required; date optional) - oi_change: Get OI change (ticker required; date, limit, page, order optional) - oi_per_expiry: Get OI per expiry (ticker required; date optional) - oi_per_strike: Get OI per strike (ticker required; date optional) - options_volume: Get options volume (ticker required; limit optional) - volume_oi_expiry: Get volume/OI by expiry (ticker required; date optional) - atm_chains: Get ATM chains for given expirations (ticker, expirations required) - expiry_breakdown: Get expiry breakdown (ticker required; date optional) - flow_per_expiry: Get flow per expiry (ticker required) - flow_per_strike: Get flow per strike (ticker required; date optional) - flow_per_strike_intraday: Get intraday flow per strike (ticker required; date, filter optional) - flow_recent: Get recent flow (ticker required; side, min_premium optional) - net_prem_ticks: Get net premium ticks (ticker required; date optional) - nope: Get NOPE data (ticker required; date optional) - stock_price_levels: Get stock price levels (ticker required; date optional) - stock_volume_price_levels: Get volume price levels (ticker required; date optional) - spot_exposures: Get spot exposures (ticker required; date optional) - spot_exposures_by_expiry_strike: Get spot exposures by expiry/strike (ticker, expirations required; date, filters optional) - spot_exposures_by_strike: Get spot exposures by strike (ticker required; date, filters optional) - spot_exposures_expiry_strike: Get spot exposures for specific expiry (ticker, expirations required; date, strike filters optional) - spot_exposures_by_expiry: DEPRECATED — Get spot GEX exposures by strike for a single expiry (ticker, expiry required; date, min_strike, max_strike optional) - historical_risk_reversal_skew: Get risk reversal skew (ticker, expiry, delta required; date, timeframe optional) - volatility_realized: Get realized volatility (ticker required; date, timeframe optional) - volatility_stats: Get volatility stats (ticker required; date optional) - volatility_term_structure: Get term structure (ticker required; date optional) - volatility_anomaly: Get volatility anomaly score (ticker required; date optional) - volatility_character: Get volatility character (ticker required; date optional) - volatility_variance_risk_premium: Get variance risk premium (ticker required; date optional) - stock_state: Get stock state (ticker required) - quote: Get the latest trade, NBBO and per-session quote change statistics (ticker required) - insider_buy_sells: Get insider buy/sells for stock (ticker required; limit optional) - ownership: PREMIUM — Get ownership data (ticker required; limit optional). Requires premium API plan, contact support@unusualwhales.com to upgrade - tickers_by_sector: Get tickers in sector (sector required) - ticker_exchanges: Get mapping of all tickers to their exchanges (no params required) - flow_alerts: Get flow alerts for a specific ticker (ticker required; limit, is_ask_side, is_bid_side optional) - fundamental_breakdown: Get fundamental financial data including EPS, revenue, dividends, share counts, and revenue breakdowns (ticker required)
uw_options
Access UnusualWhales option contract data including flow, historic prices, intraday data, and volume profiles. Available commands: - flow: Get option contract flow (id required; side, min_premium, limit, date optional) - historic: Get historic option contract data (id required; limit optional) - intraday: Get intraday option contract data (id required; date optional) - volume_profile: Get volume profile for option contract (id required; date optional) The 'id' parameter is the option contract symbol (e.g., AAPL240119C00150000).
uw_flow
Access UnusualWhales options flow data including flow alerts, full tape, net flow, group flow, and lit exchange flow. Available commands: - flow_alerts: Get flow alerts with extensive filtering options - flow_alert: Get a single flow alert by ID with all constituent trades (id required; older_than optional). For multi-leg alerts returns all related legs; for RepeatedHits returns all transactions. - full_tape: Get full options tape for a date (date required) - net_flow_expiry: Get net flow by expiry date (date optional) - group_greek_flow: Get greek flow (delta & vega) for a flow group (flow_group required; date optional) - group_greek_flow_expiry: Get greek flow by expiry for a flow group (flow_group, expiry required; date optional) - lit_flow_recent: Get recent lit exchange trades across the market - lit_flow_ticker: Get lit exchange trades for a specific ticker (ticker required) - exchange_breakdown: Get exchange & trade-code breakdown for a date (date required; ticker, by_trade_code, min_premium, limit, page, order optional) - optionable_tickers: Get the list of optionable tickers (ticker optional) - option_trades: Filter the full option trades tape — same data and filters as the live options flow page (all params optional) - multi_leg_trades: Get detected multi-leg strategies (verticals, condors, butterflies, calendars, diagonals) with net price, premium and greeks (all params optional) - multi_leg_legs: Get the individual legs of one multi-leg strategy (id required) Flow groups: airline, bank, basic materials, china, communication services, consumer cyclical, consumer defensive, crypto, cyber, energy, financial services, gas, gold, healthcare, industrials, mag7, oil, real estate, refiners, reit, semi, silver, technology, uranium, utilities Flow alerts filtering options include: ticker, premium range, volume range, OI range, DTE range, and more. Lit flow filtering options include: premium range, size range, volume range, and timestamp filters.
uw_market
Access UnusualWhales market-wide data including market tide, sector ETFs, economic calendar, FDA calendar, and more. Available commands: - market_tide: Get market tide data showing net premium flow (date optional; otm_only, interval_5m optional) - sector_tide: Get sector-specific tide (sector required; date optional) - etf_tide: Get ETF-based tide (ticker required; date optional) - sector_etfs: Get SPDR sector ETF statistics - economic_calendar: Get economic calendar events - fda_calendar: Get FDA calendar (announced_date_min/max, target_date_min/max, drug, ticker, limit optional) - correlations: Get correlations between tickers (tickers required; interval, start_date, end_date optional) - insider_buy_sells: Get total insider buy/sell statistics (limit optional) - oi_change: Get top OI changes (date, limit, order optional) - top_net_impact: Get top tickers by net premium (date, issue_types, limit optional) - total_options_volume: Get total market options volume (limit optional) - options_pulse_sectors: Get options pulse by sector/industry (date optional) - options_pulse_top: Options pulse scanner across the market (direction, date, ticker, min_score, max_score, min_txn, limit optional) - options_pulse_total: Get market-wide options pulse (date optional) - volatility_anomaly_top: Get top volatility anomalies (direction required; date, limit optional) - volatility_character_top: Get top volatility character (date, limit, sort, dir optional) - vix_term_structure: Get VIX term structure (history_days optional)
uw_darkpool
Access UnusualWhales darkpool trade data. Available commands: - recent: Get recent darkpool trades across the market - ticker: Get darkpool trades for a specific ticker - price_levels: Get darkpool & lit volume concentration by price level for a ticker (ticker required; date optional) Filtering options include premium range, size range, and volume range.
uw_congress
Access UnusualWhales congress trading data including trades by congress members. Available commands: - recent_trades: Get recent trades by congress members - late_reports: Get recent late reports by congress members - congress_trader: Get trades by a specific congress member (name required) - politicians: List politicians with trade data (trade count, first/last trade date, party, chamber, gender). Optional last_traded_within_months filter.
uw_insider
Access UnusualWhales insider trading data including transactions and flow. Available commands: - transactions: Get insider transactions with filters. Use ticker_symbol for comma-separated tickers (e.g., AAPL,INTC) - sector_flow: Get aggregated insider flow for a sector (sector required) - ticker_flow: Get aggregated insider flow for a ticker (ticker required) - insiders: Get all insiders for a ticker (ticker required)
uw_institutions
Access UnusualWhales institutional holdings and ownership data. Available commands: - list: List institutions with filters - holdings: Get holdings for an institution (name required) - activity: Get trading activity for an institution (name required) - activity_v2: Get trading activity v2 with enhanced data for an institution (name required; date, start_date, end_date optional) - sectors: Get sector exposure for an institution (name required) - ownership: Get institutional ownership of a ticker (ticker required) - latest_filings: Get latest institutional filings
uw_earnings
Access UnusualWhales earnings data including premarket and afterhours earnings schedules. Available commands: - premarket: Get premarket earnings for a date - afterhours: Get afterhours earnings for a date - ticker: Get historical earnings for a ticker (ticker required)
uw_etf
Access UnusualWhales ETF data including holdings, exposure, inflows/outflows, and weights. Available commands: - info: Get ETF information (ticker required) - holdings: Get ETF holdings (ticker required) - exposure: Get ETFs that hold a ticker (ticker required) - in_outflow: Get ETF inflow/outflow data (ticker required) - weights: Get sector and country weights (ticker required)
uw_screener
Access UnusualWhales screeners for stocks, options, and analysts. Available commands: - stocks: Screen stocks with various filters - option_contracts: Screen option contracts with filters - analysts: Screen analyst ratings - unusual_activity: Get option contracts flagged as unusual — the API equivalent of the live options flow "unusual" view (all params optional)
uw_shorts
Access UnusualWhales short selling data including short interest, FTDs, and volume. Available commands: - data: Get short data for a ticker (ticker required) - ftds: Get failure to deliver data (ticker required) - interest_float: Get short interest as percent of float (ticker required) - volume_ratio: Get short volume and ratio (ticker required) - volumes_by_exchange: Get short volumes by exchange (ticker required) - interest_float_v2: Get short interest as percent of float v2 with enhanced data (ticker required) - short_screener: Screen for stocks by short interest metrics (all params optional)
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