DealMachine vs Redfin MCP
A side-by-side look at the DealMachine and Redfin MCP MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose DealMachine for real estate work over a hosted endpoint; choose Redfin MCP for real estate as a local process. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
Which MCP server should you choose?
Choose DealMachine when
- You need dedicated capabilities in the Real Estate domain.
- You prefer a remote HTTP/SSE transport.
- You want tools like
dealmachine_signup, dealmachine_plans, dealmachine_account.
Choose Redfin MCP when
- You need dedicated capabilities in the Real Estate domain.
- You prefer a local stdio subprocess transport.
- You want tools like
redfin_search_properties, redfin_sweep_area, redfin_get_property.
Feature & specification comparison
Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Category | Real Estate | Real Estate |
| Quality signal | 57/100 · Good | 64/100 · Good |
| Install command | Confirmed | Confirmed |
| Transport | Remote HTTP/SSE | Local subprocess (stdio) |
| Auth | Not declared | Not declared |
| Pricing | Not declared | Not declared |
| Required env vars | None listed | None listed |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 1 | 3 |
| Directory activity | 2 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 1 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 46 | 22 |
| Full listing | View DealMachine | View Redfin MCP |
Tools & capabilities
DealMachine tools 46
dealmachine_signupStart a free DealMachine account. Returns the secure browser signup URL. Ask the user to finish signup and connect DealMachine using OAuth. Never ask for passwords, payment details or API keys in chat. Signup does not purchase a plan.dealmachine_plansRead live plan prices, billing intervals, included credits, features and free API capabilities. Works before signup. Connected customers get their workspace prices. Counts and supported estimates are free; enrichment needs paid access. Read this before explaining or recommending a plan. Never invent credits, discounts or prices.dealmachine_accountRead your active plan and remaining data credits. Free accounts can use this. After Stripe payment, check plan.is_paid and the current balance before retrying approved enrichment. A checkout URL or the user saying they paid is not proof of activation.dealmachine_checkoutCreate a Stripe-hosted checkout link after the customer explicitly approves the exact plan, price, billing interval and quantity from dealmachine_plans. Requires confirmed=true. Never call for a declined or hypothetical purchase. Creating the link does not charge the customer or activate a subscription. The customer completes payment in Stripe (Link may be offered); then check dealmachine_account and dealmachine_usage. Never automatically retry checkout or collect card details in chat.dealmachine_enrich_addressReturns a property matched by full or parsed street address, including property details and optional contacts. A matched property costs one property credit; returned contacts can consume people credits. No credits are charged when no property matches. `contact_audience=none` returns property-only data.dealmachine_enrich_latlngReturns the closest property within 300 feet of GPS coordinates, including property details and optional contacts. A matched property costs one property credit; returned contacts can consume people credits. No credits are charged when no property matches. `contact_audience=none` returns property-only data.dealmachine_enrich_apnReturns a property matched by Assessor's Parcel Number (APN), with optional location narrowing and contacts. APN formatting is normalized automatically. A matched property costs one property credit; returned contacts can consume people credits.dealmachine_enrich_emailLook up a person by email address. Returns contact info, demographics, and optionally associated properties. Costs 1 people data credit per matched person (no charge if no match).dealmachine_enrich_phoneLook up a person by phone number. Returns contact info, demographics, and optionally associated properties. Costs 1 people data credit per matched person (no charge if no match).dealmachine_enrich_nameReturns paginated people matched by name, with optional location narrowing and associated properties. `estimate_cost=true` returns people and associated-property counts without records or credit use. Returned people cost one people credit each; associated properties can consume property credits.dealmachine_filtersReturns DealMachine search filters with filter IDs, source types, operators, and valid options. A `search` value performs a fuzzy concept match across labels, aliases, and option values; without it, the response includes all pages. This read-only request is free.dealmachine_fieldsReturns available DealMachine data fields with field ID, source type, data type, and description. A `search` value performs a fuzzy match across field metadata; without it, the response includes all pages. This read-only request is free.- +34 more on the listing page
Redfin MCP tools 22
redfin_search_propertiesSearch Redfin listings by location (city, ZIP, neighborhood, or full street address) and optional filters. Resolves the location via Redfin's autocomplete then queries the gis API; full street addresses short-circuit to the single matched home (no gis call). Returns matching properties with price, beds/baths, sqft, year built, address, and the Redfin home URL. `resolved_as` is `'region'` / `'address'`. `coverage` is `'full'` (gis indexed this region), `'profile_only'` (Redfin has profiles for individual addresses here but search isn't indexed — use redfin_get_by_address per property), or `'none'`. `result_cap_hit: true` signals the result page is full — gis returned as many rows as requested (`limit`, default 40, max 350) — so more listings likely exist; raise `limit` or narrow with price/beds filters. ZIP queries that fall into Redfin's cross-continent fallback (e.g. ZIP 28746 returning Seattle results) now error loudly. Only `for_sale` status is supported; `sold` / `for_rent` return an error (use redfin_get_comparable_rentals for rentals, redfin_get_market_report for sold-price trends). Read-only; safe to call repeatedly.redfin_sweep_areaEnumerate EVERY for-sale Redfin listing inside a bounding box without silent truncation. Redfin's gis API returns at most 350 homes per call and ignores server-side filters, so this tool searches drawn-map polygons, recursively quarters any tile that hits the cap, dedupes by property_id and re-applies the caller's filters locally. Homes outside the box and tiles where Redfin drifted to another region are left out. Alternatively pass `zips` (ZIP mode) to sweep a list of ZIP regions instead of map tiles, when Redfin ignores drawn-map polygons. Returns a completeness summary (requests, tiles or ZIPs, unique listings, tiles/ZIPs still at the cap, drift warnings) plus the listings inline by default; pass the optional `output_path` to write them to a new JSON file instead, for large areas (inside the output directory: REDFIN_OUTPUT_DIR, default ~/Downloads/redfin-mcp). Sequential requests with a delay. Read-only against Redfin; the only write is the optional local output file.redfin_get_propertyFetch a property's full Redfin record. Provide one of: (a) `url` — full Redfin homedetails URL or path, resolved via the initialInfo endpoint; (b) `property_id` alone — resolved internally by following Redfin's /home/<id> redirect to the canonical listing, then initialInfo; or (c) `property_id` + `listing_id` — fastest, skips resolution and goes straight to aboveTheFold. Returns address, beds/baths, sqft, lot_size (sq ft), year built, price, status, days on market, plus derived fields (lot_size_acres, price_drop_*, hoa_monthly_usd, last_sold_*, tax_annual, extracted_features). lot_size / lot_size_acres are null (never 0) for condos and listings with no public-records lot. `primary_photo_url` is a raw Redfin CDN URL and is dropped on the default `compact` view — pass `view: "full"` for it, or use `redfin_get_property_photos` for the whole gallery. The raw marketing description is OMITTED by default — opt in with `include_description: true`. Set `include_price_history: true` to bundle the full price history (and the cross-MCP-normalized `events_normalized` view) inline; set `include_tax_history: true` for `tax_history`. Read-only; safe to call repeatedly.redfin_get_saved_homesThe signed-in user's favorited homes on redfin.com. Returns `{ count, homes }` — each home has address, price, beds/baths, status — plus a `note` when none were found (no favorites vs. a page-scrape miss). Requires the user to be signed in. Read-only; safe to call repeatedly.redfin_get_saved_searchesThe signed-in user's saved searches on redfin.com, derived from the saved-searches page HTML. Returns `{ count, searches }`; each entry is `{ url, region_segment, display_text }`. Requires the user to be signed in. When none are found, `searches` is empty and a `note` explains it may be no saved searches or a page-scrape miss. Read-only; safe to call repeatedly.redfin_get_market_reportMarket report for a Redfin region: median list/sold prices, $/sqft, sale-to-list ratio, total homes for sale + sold, all with year-over-year and month-over-month change. Provide either (a) `location` — free-text we resolve via autocomplete (best with city names; "New York", "Seattle"; neighborhoods typically return empty data), or (b) `region_id` + `region_type` directly. `property_type` defaults to 1 (all). Each metric returns `{ label, value, unit, yoy_change_fraction, yoy_direction, mom_change_fraction, mom_direction }`. Read-only; safe to call repeatedly.redfin_calculate_mortgageLocal-only mortgage payment calculator. Returns a full PITI breakdown (principal + interest, property tax, insurance, HOA, PMI) and total interest over the life of the loan. No network call — fully deterministic, safe to use for scenario comparison without burning a fetch. Provide either `down_payment` OR `down_payment_percent`; defaults to 20%. Property tax can be given as `property_tax_annual` or `property_tax_rate` (% of home price). PMI applies automatically when LTV > 80% and `pmi_rate` is provided.redfin_get_price_historyListing-price events for a property — listings, price changes, pending, sold, etc. Each entry has a date, event description, price, days-on-market at that point, and the data-source attribution (MLS, county records, etc.). Also returns the tax-history series from public records. Provide either `url` or `property_id`+`listing_id`. Read-only; safe to call repeatedly.redfin_compare_propertiesFetch and compare 2 to 25 Redfin properties side-by-side. Provide an array of targets, each either a `url` or a `property_id`+`listing_id` pair. Returns the full per-property record (price, beds/baths, sqft, year built, HOA monthly, last sold, derived price-drop, etc.). For >25 properties or workflows that don't need side-by-side analysis use `redfin_bulk_get`. Pass `include_summary: true` for an aligned-by-field `summary` table (default false to save context — the per-row records carry the same data, so emitting both duplicates ~30% of the response weight). Each record's `extracted_features` (lake_front, hot_tub, basement, furnished, dock, community) is always included. The raw marketing description is omitted by default — opt in with `include_description: true`. Errors for individual properties are captured per-row with a `status` (`ok` / `timeout` / `bridge_down` / `protocol` / `pending` / `other`) and `retryable`. Server-side concurrency (~6 in flight) with retry-once-on-timeout per row; the whole call is bounded by an overall deadline, and any row still unsettled then comes back as `status: "pending"` (retryable) with a `pending` count.redfin_get_climate_riskFirst Street Foundation climate risk scores for a property. COVERS: flood (factor 1–10, FEMA zones, 30-year annual chance series), fire (factor 1–10, relative risk, insurance price band, provider count), heat (factor 1–10, cumulative-risk projections at 0/5/10/15/20-year horizons). DOES NOT COVER: landslide. This is the Helene-relevant risk vector in the NC mountains market and many parts of California / the Pacific Northwest. First Street has no landslide product — for that vector check the NC Geological Survey landslide hazard maps (NC-specific) or USGS landslide hazard data (national). Surfaced on every response as `not_covered: ['landslide']`. Response shape: when First Street data is available, `available: true` with the risk blocks; when not, `{ available: false, reason }` where reason is one of `no_first_street_data`, `new_construction`, `address_outside_coverage`. Sourced from Redfin's server-rendered homedetails HTML (no clean stingray endpoint exists). Pass a homedetails URL (full or path) — it must end in a `/home/<propertyId>` segment; any other page is rejected without being fetched. When a `cluster_id` is surfaced, properties with the same value typically share identical climate scores — use that to group N properties and skip redundant fetches.redfin_get_climate_risk_bulkFetch climate risk for up to 100 property URLs in a single call. Same per-property shape as `redfin_get_climate_risk`; output preserves input order. Per-row error capture — properties without First Street data return `{ available: false, reason }` without aborting the batch. Server-side concurrency (~5 fetches in flight) with retry-once-on-timeout per URL. The whole call is bounded by an overall deadline: any URL still unsettled then comes back as `status: "pending"` (retryable) with a `pending` count, so re-run just those. Use this when batching ~60-property workflows where climate risk is the dominant cost. Limitations from the per-property tool apply (no landslide coverage).redfin_get_area_climate_baselineFetch climate risk for a small set of representative URLs in an area, then return their averaged baseline values plus the shared cluster_id when present. Use this as a cheap area-level read BEFORE fanning out a per-property call: if all sample properties agree (same cluster_id, same fire/flood/heat factors), the baseline applies to the whole cluster and N redundant fetches are avoidable. Pass 2–10 URLs you believe represent the area; returns the aggregate plus the per-URL responses for transparency. Server-side concurrency (~5 fetches in flight) with retry-once-on-timeout per URL; the whole call is bounded by an overall deadline, and any sample still unsettled then comes back as `status: "pending"` (retryable) with a `pending` count and is left out of the averages. Limitations of the per-property tool apply (no landslide coverage — note documented in the per-property tool description).- +10 more on the listing page
Ready-to-paste client configs
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.
DealMachine
{
"mcpServers": {
"dealmachine": {
"url": "https://mcp.dealmachine.com"
}
}
}
Redfin MCP
{
"mcpServers": {
"redfin-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"redfin-mcp"
]
}
}
}
Frequently asked questions
DealMachine is categorized under Real Estate and uses a remote HTTP/SSE transport. Redfin MCP belongs to Real Estate and uses a local stdio subprocess. Pick DealMachine for real estate work and Redfin MCP for real estate.
Copy the mcpServers block from the config section on this page into your client's config (for example claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json), then fully restart the client.
DealMachine has no declared pricing — check the project's own site. Redfin MCP has no declared pricing — check the project's own site. If a server needs environment variables such as API keys, define them under the env key in your client's MCP config.
Yes. MCP clients support multiple servers: add dealmachine and redfin-mcp as separate keys in the same mcpServers object, and your assistant will call tools from either one.
On AllMCPs, DealMachine has a quality signal of 57/100 (Good) with 2 views, 0 installs and 1 GitHub stars. Redfin MCP has 64/100 (Good) with 1 views, 0 installs and 3 GitHub stars.