Finance MCP vs Bykaranteli MCP
A side-by-side look at the Finance MCP and Bykaranteli MCP MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Finance MCP for finance & fintech work as a local process; choose Bykaranteli MCP for finance & fintech as a local process. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
Which MCP server should you choose?
Choose Finance MCP when
- You need dedicated capabilities in the Finance & Fintech domain.
- You prefer a local stdio subprocess transport.
- Its auth model fits you: No auth required.
- You have the keys it needs:
SEC_USER_AGENT. - You want tools like
get_stock_quote, get_price_history, search_symbols.
Choose Bykaranteli MCP when
- You need dedicated capabilities in the Finance & Fintech domain.
- You prefer a local stdio subprocess transport.
- Its auth model fits you: API key required.
- You have the keys it needs:
BYKARANTELI_API_KEY. - You want tools like
get_market_indices, get_liquidations, get_etf_flows.
Feature & specification comparison
Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Category | Finance & Fintech | Finance & Fintech |
| Quality signal | 61/100 · Good | 64/100 · Good |
| Install command | Confirmed | Confirmed |
| Transport | Local subprocess (stdio) | Local subprocess (stdio) |
| Auth | No auth required | API key required |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Required env vars | SEC_USER_AGENT | BYKARANTELI_API_KEY |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 1 | 2 |
| Directory activity | 5 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 3 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 11 | 68 |
| Full listing | View Finance MCP | View Bykaranteli MCP |
Tools & capabilities
Finance MCP tools 11
get_stock_quoteLatest price and daily change for one or more stocks, ETFs, or indices, from Yahoo Finance. Use Yahoo-style symbols: AAPL, MSFT, VOO, ^GSPC (S&P 500), ^IXIC (Nasdaq), RELIANCE.NS (India), 7203.T (Japan). Call search_symbols first if you only have a company name. Returns a single point in time — use get_price_history for a series or a period return, and get_crypto_price for cryptocurrencies, which are not on Yahoo symbols. Prices may be delayed up to ~15 minutes and are not exchange-official, so do not treat them as execution prices. Symbols are looked up independently: one bad symbol does not fail the rest.get_price_historyHistorical OHLCV candles for a stock, ETF, index, or FX pair from Yahoo Finance, plus the period return and a high/low/average summary. Use this for 'how has NVDA done this year?' or any question about change over time; use get_stock_quote when you only need the current price. Does not cover cryptocurrencies. Intraday intervals (1m–1h) are only retained by Yahoo for short ranges — pair them with 1d/5d/1mo, and use 1d or coarser for 1y and beyond, or the response comes back empty. Candles with no trade are omitted, so gaps in the series are expected.search_symbolsResolve a company or fund name to a ticker symbol using Yahoo Finance search. Call this first whenever you have a name rather than a symbol — "Apple" → AAPL — then pass the symbol to get_stock_quote or get_price_history. Covers equities, ETFs, and indices across global exchanges, so the same company may return several listings; prefer the one whose exchange matches the market you want. For US-listed companies you need SEC data on, get_sec_filings accepts a company name directly and needs no symbol lookup.get_fx_rateConvert between two currencies at the latest published reference rate, with the change since the prior session. Returns both the rate and, when `amount` is given, the converted total. Major currencies come from the European Central Bank (published once per business day, so the rate is a daily fix rather than a live tick); pairs outside the ECB's ~30 currencies fall back to Yahoo. Use get_crypto_price for crypto — BTC and ETH are not currencies here. These are indicative mid-market rates, not dealable quotes, so they will not match what a bank charges.get_crypto_priceSpot price, 24h change, market cap, and 24h volume for specific cryptocurrencies you name, from CoinGecko. Use this when you know which coins you want; use get_crypto_market instead to rank the market or discover the largest coins. Accepts common tickers ("btc", "eth", "sol") or CoinGecko ids ("bitcoin", "matic-network"); unknown names are reported back rather than failing the whole call, so a typo returns the other coins. Prices are near-real-time but not exchange-official. Stocks and FX are not available here — use get_stock_quote and get_fx_rate.get_crypto_marketRanked table of the largest cryptocurrencies by market cap, with 24h and 7d performance, from CoinGecko. Use this to survey or discover the market — 'what are the biggest coins', 'what moved this week'. When you already know which coins you care about, use get_crypto_price instead: it takes explicit names and avoids pulling a whole ranking. Always returns the top N by market cap starting at rank 1; there is no paging or filtering, so a coin outside the top `limit` will not appear no matter how it performed.get_sec_filingsRecent SEC EDGAR filings for one US-listed company, newest first, with direct document URLs you can cite or fetch. Filter by form type (10-K annual report, 10-Q quarterly, 8-K material event, 4 insider trade, S-1 IPO, 13F fund holdings, DEF 14A proxy); an amended form such as 10-K/A is returned when you ask for its base form. Use this to find documents for a company you can already name. Use search_sec_filings instead to search filing text across all companies, and get_sec_financials to read reported numbers rather than locate documents. US SEC registrants only — non-US listings do not file with EDGAR.get_sec_financialsReported financial line items straight from a US company's XBRL filings — revenue, net income, EPS, assets, cash, operating cash flow and more — as an annual or quarterly time series. These are as-filed audited figures, not analyst estimates or forecasts, so prefer this over any market-data tool for fundamentals. Use get_sec_filings instead when you want the documents rather than the numbers. Each row is labelled by the period it covers; where a later filing restated a period, the most recently filed value is returned. Filers tag the same concept differently, so a concept alias is tried against several us-gaap tags and the response names the tag actually used — expect the tag to differ between companies. US SEC registrants only.search_sec_filingsSearch the full text of every SEC filing since 2001 to find which companies discuss a topic — e.g. "AI data center capex" in 10-Ks. Wrap a phrase in double quotes for exact matching; unquoted terms match loosely and return far more noise. Use this for discovery across companies. When you already know the company, get_sec_filings is more direct. Results are ranked by EDGAR's own relevance, which favours companies with your query in their *name* — a search for a common term may surface a company called after it ahead of substantive discussion. Totals above 10,000 are reported as approximate. Filings before 2001 are not indexed.get_insider_activityWhat a company's own officers, directors and 10% owners have been buying and selling in its stock, from their SEC Form 4 filings. Insiders must report within two business days, so this is the freshest disclosed signal about a company available anywhere. Crucially, it separates **open-market trades** — where someone actively chose to buy or sell — from **mechanical** activity like options vesting and shares withheld to pay the tax on that vesting. Most reported 'insider selling' is mechanical and means nothing; headlines routinely conflate the two. Read the open-market numbers, and treat the mechanical count as noise. US SEC registrants only. This reports what was disclosed and does not interpret it — insider buying and selling both have innocent explanations, and neither predicts the share price.get_economic_indicatorMacroeconomic time series by country from the World Bank — GDP, GDP growth, inflation, unemployment, population, government debt, trade balance and more — returned newest year first with year-over-year change. Use this for country-level economics; it says nothing about any individual company or security, which is what the market-data and SEC tools cover. Data is **annual only**, so it cannot answer questions about this month or this quarter, and reporting lags: the last one or two years are frequently unreported and are omitted rather than returned as zero. Coverage varies by country and indicator, so a valid pairing can still be empty.
Bykaranteli MCP tools 68
get_market_indicesCall this when the user asks about overall crypto market sentiment or macro state: the Fear & Greed index (today and yesterday), Bitcoin dominance percentage, total market cap, or the Retail Euphoria composite. Live values refreshed about every 30 minutes.get_liquidationsCall this when the user asks how much was liquidated in crypto futures, whether longs or shorts got flushed, or for liquidation history. Returns daily long and short liquidation totals in USD per symbol and exchange, recorded from ByKaranteli's own stream collectors on every liquidation venue it counts, listed on bykaranteli.com/coverage (recorded events, a floor, not estimates). One row per finalized UTC day, symbol and exchange; history begins 2026-07-30 and grows daily. Without symbol, rows holds the first 30 rows (newest day, largest first) while summary covers every matching row; pass symbol or limit (up to 400) for more rows.get_etf_flowsCall this when the user asks about Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana or XRP spot ETF flows: daily net inflows or outflows, cumulative flow since launch, or total net assets of the US spot ETFs (IBIT, FBTC, ETHA, XRPC and the rest). Returns one row per finalized US trading day and asset with net inflow, total net assets, cumulative inflow since launch and value traded, all in USD. History by asset: BTC and ETH since 2025-05-20, SOL since 2025-10-28, XRP since 2026-09-08.get_funding_heatmapCall this when the user asks for the full current funding table across the ~30 most traded Binance perps (28-30 rows; contracts without a live funding print are skipped), or the funding rate of one specific coin. For a pre-ranked top-10 of the most extreme funding rates, use get_top_movers instead. Returns per-symbol funding rate (per settlement interval), 24h open interest change and 24h price change for the most traded Binance USDT-M perpetuals. Positive funding means longs pay shorts.get_funding_arbitrageCall this when the user asks about funding arbitrage, funding rate differences between exchanges, or delta-neutral carry trades. Compares funding across every venue on the board, from Binance, OKX and Bybit to Hyperliquid, dYdX and the smaller perp venues fed by the venue snapshot, for 12 major perps and returns the best long/short venue per symbol with gross and net annualized APR (net of taker fees and weekly rebalance cost). Each row lists its first 5 venue legs; pass symbol for every leg of one perp.get_pressure_scoresCall this when the user asks which coins are crowded or over-leveraged, or asks for the pressure/derivatives-stress score of specific coins. For a quick top-10 ranking of the highest-stress coins right now, use get_top_movers instead. Each symbol gets a 0-100 composite score built from funding rate, 1h/4h/24h open interest deltas and basis, with a LONG/SHORT/NEUTRAL direction and a plain-language regime label.get_top_moversCall this when the user asks what is moving in crypto derivatives right now, which coins have the biggest open interest changes, the most extreme funding, the widest basis, or the highest derivatives stress. Returns four top-10 lists in one call.get_cot_positioningCall this when the user asks how hedge funds or institutions are positioned in Bitcoin or Ethereum, or about the CFTC Commitments of Traders report. Returns net positions in contracts, week-over-week changes, open interest and notable extremes/streaks, from official CFTC data updated every Friday. Note: a large share of hedge fund shorts is the market-neutral basis trade, so the weekly change carries more signal than the level.get_options_snapshotCall this when the user asks where the big options bets sit, about call/put walls, gamma exposure (GEX), the zero-gamma level, implied volatility (DVOL) or the IV term structure for Bitcoin or Ethereum, across options venues or on one venue. Daily snapshot of the listed option chains of every options venue we record, summed by default or one venue with venue: the call wall (largest call open interest above spot) and put wall (largest put open interest below spot), the largest bars on the whole axis, top strikes by open interest, put/call ratio, dealer hedging map, ATM IV by expiry (calls and puts interpolated at the money, iv_source names the venue whose quotes price the chain), each venue's open interest (venues_included), and per expiry the open interest by side, the max pain strike (where the open contracts as a group pay out the least at settlement, not a price target) and the one-sigma implied move the ATM IV prices (expiries). DVOL is Deribit's index whatever the venue.get_coinbase_premiumCall this when the user asks whether US investors are buying or selling Bitcoin or Ethereum, about the Coinbase Premium, or what the cash-and-carry basis trade pays. Returns the latest daily premium in percent, 7-day average, same-sign streak, the last 30 days, and annualized quarterly carry yields. History since 2017; positive premium = US buying pressure. The kimchi and Turkey premium daily rows cover the last 7 days; pass days (up to 90) for more.get_flow_toxicityCall this when the user asks whether informed or toxic order flow is building, about VPIN, or whether market makers are under pressure in Bitcoin, Ethereum or Solana. Returns the current VPIN (0 = balanced, 1 = fully one-sided), its 90-day percentile, the danger threshold and the 24h average. Elevated readings historically precede volatility; VPIN says nothing about direction.get_options_flowCall this when the user asks what big options players are buying, about block trades, or whether call or put premium dominates today. Returns 24h call vs put premium bought (net of the sold legs of the same multi-leg block or combo, so a spread counts its net premium), the block-trade share, the multi-leg structure count, and the largest prints of the last 48 hours with strikes, premium, IV, structure id and venue (Deribit or OKX). Updated every 15 minutes.- +56 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.
Finance MCP
{
"mcpServers": {
"finance-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"finance-data-mcp"
],
"env": {
"SEC_USER_AGENT": "YOUR_SEC_USER_AGENT_HERE"
}
}
}
}
Bykaranteli MCP
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-69": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"bykaranteli-mcp"
],
"env": {
"BYKARANTELI_API_KEY": "YOUR_BYKARANTELI_API_KEY_HERE"
}
}
}
}
Frequently asked questions
Finance MCP is categorized under Finance & Fintech and uses a local stdio subprocess. Bykaranteli MCP belongs to Finance & Fintech and uses a local stdio subprocess. Pick Finance MCP for finance & fintech work and Bykaranteli MCP for finance & fintech.
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.
Finance MCP is listed as free. Auth: no auth required. Bykaranteli MCP is listed as freemium — a free tier with paid plans. Auth: api key required. 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 finance-mcp and mcp-69 as separate keys in the same mcpServers object, and your assistant will call tools from either one.
On AllMCPs, Finance MCP has a quality signal of 61/100 (Good) with 5 views, 0 installs and 1 GitHub stars. Bykaranteli MCP has 64/100 (Good) with 3 views, 0 installs and 2 GitHub stars.