Finance MCP vs Priors
A side-by-side look at the Finance MCP and Priors 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 Priors for finance & fintech over a hosted endpoint. 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 Priors when
- You need dedicated capabilities in the Finance & Fintech domain.
- You prefer a remote HTTP/SSE transport.
- Its auth model fits you: No auth required.
- You have the keys it needs:
PRIORS_KEY. - You want tools like
pay_url, wallet_balance, credit_status.
Feature & specification comparison
Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Category | Finance & Fintech | Finance & Fintech |
| Quality signal | 61/100 · Good | 85/100 · Excellent |
| Install command | Confirmed | Confirmed |
| Transport | Local subprocess (stdio) | Remote HTTP/SSE |
| Auth | No auth required | No auth required |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| Required env vars | SEC_USER_AGENT | PRIORS_KEY |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Verified |
| GitHub stars | 1 | 5 |
| Directory activity | 5 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 8 views 4 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 11 | 20 |
| Full listing | View Finance MCP | View Priors |
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.
Priors tools 20
pay_urlFetch a URL that may charge per call with x402 (HTTP 402) and pay it in USDG on Robinhood Chain from the configured wallet. Moves real money: confirm the URL and the most you will pay with the user first. Pays only if the price is at or below max_price_usd (default 0.10 USD); a higher price is refused before anything is signed. If the wallet is short, it borrows the gap from the agent's Priors credit line only when max_borrow_usd is given and covers it (the loan must then be repaid with the repay tool before its due date). Returns what was paid and borrowed, and the response body.wallet_balanceShow how much USDG (the dollar the payments and loans use) and native ETH for gas a Robinhood Chain address holds. Defaults to the configured wallet; any address works without a key. Read-only.credit_statusShow a Priors agent's credit line on Robinhood Chain: who backs it, the line, what is drawn and available, its repayment record, score and open loans with due dates, and (for the configured wallet) its Autopay: on or off, the limit per loan, the budget left, the next loan it repays and any shortfall. agent_id defaults to the configured wallet's agent. Read-only.stock_assetsList the Robinhood stock tokens the Priors stock vault accepts as collateral on Robinhood Chain: each token's live Chainlink price, whether the vault lends against it right now (and if not, why: a sharp price move, a multiplier change such as a split, a paused or blocked token), and its loan-to-value. Read-only.stock_positionShow the stock tokens behind a Priors agent's stock line on Robinhood Chain: the token and amount the vault holds, what the vault values them at, the loan-to-value, what the line can draw now, whether new loans wait on a lending hold, and whether the line is closing. agent_id defaults to the configured wallet's agent. Read-only.stock_line_requestWhen the agent's Priors line is too small for a task, ask its owner for a line backed by a Robinhood stock token the owner holds: checks the token takes new lines now (price, holds, caps, the week's room, against the line the deposit opens) and the agent can take one, sizes the deposit to the line asked for at the agent's own loan-to-value (its record bonus included), with room for a 23% fall, states the cost in cents for a day and a week and what a default would keep, and returns a Go mode link that opens the owner's deposit sheet already filled in. Nothing is deposited or signed by this tool. Ask once per task, and only for what the task needs. agent_id defaults to the configured agent (PRIORS_AGENT_ID, or the one identity minted to the configured wallet); when a wallet is configured and its agent can't be told, the call fails and asks for agent_id. Without agent_id and with no wallet configured, the request is for a new agent.score_ofLook up any agent's Priors score (0 to 1000) and repayment record on Robinhood Chain: a public record built from on-chain repayments, plus the open Priors Score v2 and its trust rung when published. Useful before trusting or paying an agent. Read-only.borrowBorrow USDG from the agent's Priors credit line into the configured wallet. Moves real money and opens a loan with a fee that must be repaid (principal + fee) before the due date, or the agent's record is burnt and its backer pays. Always state the amount, term and fee to the user and get their go-ahead first; use dry_run: true to get the fee without borrowing.repayRepay the agent's own Priors loans in full (principal + fee) from the configured wallet's USDG; a loan of another agent, or one opened while someone else held the agent, is refused, and so is every loan when the wallet is neither the agent's owner nor its declared ERC-8004 wallet. Give either loan_id for one loan, or all: true to repay every open loan, earliest due first, as far as the balance covers. Moves real money: state the amounts (credit_status lists them) to the user and get their go-ahead first. The answer ends with share facts for each loan repaid (the amount, on time or late, the agent's record page), also as structured content with a suggested line; this server never posts anything.autopay_onTurn on Autopay for the configured agent: this wallet approves AutoRepay for a USDG budget (4 x the limit per loan) and enrolls, so each Priors loan is repaid from this wallet (then its savings, if chosen) in the 6 hours before it is due, by Priors' keeper or anyone, with no call per loan, while the wallet holds enough. It makes an on-time repayment more likely; it is not a promise. Call it again to change the limit or approve more budget when it runs low. Moves real allowances: state the limit and the budget to the user and get their go-ahead once. Needs ETH for gas.autopay_offTurn off Autopay for the configured agent: AutoRepay stops repaying its loans from this wallet at once. With clear_budget: true, also set this wallet's allowances to AutoRepay to 0. Loans must then be repaid with the repay tool before their due date.savingsShow how much USDG an address has saved in the savings vault (Steakhouse USDG on Morpho by default), what the vault can pay out to it right now, and the USDG in its wallet. Defaults to the configured wallet. Read-only.- +8 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"
}
}
}
}
Priors
{
"mcpServers": {
"priors": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@priors/mcp"
],
"env": {
"PRIORS_KEY": "YOUR_PRIORS_KEY_HERE"
}
}
}
}
Frequently asked questions
Finance MCP is categorized under Finance & Fintech and uses a local stdio subprocess. Priors belongs to Finance & Fintech and uses a remote HTTP/SSE transport. Pick Finance MCP for finance & fintech work and Priors 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. Priors is listed as free. Auth: no auth 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 priors 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. Priors has 85/100 (Excellent) with 8 views, 4 installs and 5 GitHub stars.