A side-by-side look at the Contendeo and Saliga data tools (Apify) MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Contendeo for speech-to-text work over a hosted endpoint; choose Saliga data tools (Apify) for speech-to-text. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
quick_transcribe, deep_analyze, clip_context.APIFY_TOKEN.Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | S Saliga data tools (Apify) | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Speech-to-Text | Speech-to-Text |
| Quality signal | 47/100 · Fair | 36/100 · Fair |
| Install command | Confirmed | Not confirmed yet |
| Transport | Remote HTTP/SSE | — |
| Auth | Not declared | API key required |
| Pricing | Not declared | BYOK (pay the provider) |
| Required env vars | None listed | APIFY_TOKEN |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 0 | 0 |
| Directory activity | 1 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 4 | Not listed |
| Full listing | View Contendeo | View Saliga data tools (Apify) |
quick_transcribeTimestamped transcript with speaker identification. Audio-only. Fast.deep_analyzeFull multimodal pipeline — transcript + keyframe vision + OCR, unified output.clip_contextAnalyze a specific timestamp range without paying for the full video.batch_analyzeProcess up to 10 videos in parallel with cross-video synthesis.No 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": {
"contendeo": {
"url": "https://contendeo.app/mcp/"
}
}
}
No confirmed install command for Saliga data tools (Apify) yet — follow the setup steps linked from its listing page rather than a guessed package name.