Shortlist Price Index

Monthly verified software prices for 16 categories, with ratings and true 3-year cost. CC BY 4.0

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Target File:~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shortlist-price-index": {
      "url": "https://shortlist-mcp.vercel.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

💡 Paste the JSON block into your client's configuration file under mcpServers, then restart the application.

Documentation Overview

Shortlist Price Index MCP server

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that gives AI agents software pricing data: entry prices (lowest paid plan per provider) for 16 categories, from VPNs and cloud backup to travel eSIMs and recruitment software. Prices are compiled from each provider's public pricing page and republished monthly since June 2026. Three categories (VPN, web hosting and cloud backup) are additionally measured by an automated pipeline that archives the source page behind every observation; the remaining categories are hand-curated. Published as open data under CC BY 4.0 by Orai Media.

Endpoint: https://shortlist-mcp.vercel.app/mcp (streamable HTTP, no auth, free)

Tools

Tool	What it does
`list_categories`	All tracked categories with slugs, units and currencies (11 USD/global + 5 Dutch EUR)
`get_price_index`	Full index for one category: average, median, cheapest, every provider sorted by price, monthly history, methodology
`get_true_3yr_cost`	Honest 3-year cost per provider (year 1 intro, years 2-3 at renewal), ranked by real total, with the renewal multiplier. Published for web hosting and antivirus today
`get_cheapest`	The N cheapest providers in a category right now, with a link to the full comparison

Every response includes a citation string and the CC BY 4.0 license note, so agents can attribute figures correctly.

Add to Claude Code

Terminal

claude mcp add --transport http shortlist-prices https://shortlist-mcp.vercel.app/mcp

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config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shortlist-prices": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://shortlist-mcp.vercel.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Example questions your agent can now answer

"What does a VPN cost per month right now, and which three are cheapest?"
"Compare travel eSIM prices per GB for a summer trip."
"How much does an applicant tracking system cost for a single recruiter?"
"Wat kost een wachtwoordmanager per maand in Nederland?"

Data

The server reads the live Price Index JSON endpoints of the Shortlist comparison sites (republished monthly, cached one hour) and the open dataset repository:

Dataset with monthly history: https://github.com/ies86/shortlist-price-index
Kaggle mirror: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ries86/shortlist-price-index

License: data CC BY 4.0 (attribution + link to the cited source site), code MIT.

Run locally

Terminal

npm install
npm run dev
# MCP endpoint on http://localhost:3000/mcp

Self-host with Docker

The included Dockerfile builds a self-contained image of the same server (the production endpoint above is the hosted equivalent):

Terminal

docker build -t shortlist-mcp .
docker run -p 3000:3000 shortlist-mcp
# MCP endpoint on http://localhost:3000/mcp

Built with mcp-handler on Next.js, deployed on Vercel.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Shortlist Price Index

Add the following block to your claude_desktop_config.json under mcpServers: "mcpServers": { "shortlist-price-index": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "Shortlist Price Index"] } }

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Documentation Overview

Shortlist Price Index MCP server

Endpoint: https://shortlist-mcp.vercel.app/mcp (streamable HTTP, no auth, free)

Tools

Tool	What it does
`list_categories`	All tracked categories with slugs, units and currencies (11 USD/global + 5 Dutch EUR)
`get_price_index`	Full index for one category: average, median, cheapest, every provider sorted by price, monthly history, methodology
`get_true_3yr_cost`	Honest 3-year cost per provider (year 1 intro, years 2-3 at renewal), ranked by real total, with the renewal multiplier. Published for web hosting and antivirus today
`get_cheapest`	The N cheapest providers in a category right now, with a link to the full comparison

Every response includes a citation string and the CC BY 4.0 license note, so agents can attribute figures correctly.

Add to Claude Code

Terminal

claude mcp add --transport http shortlist-prices https://shortlist-mcp.vercel.app/mcp

Add to any MCP client

config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shortlist-prices": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://shortlist-mcp.vercel.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Example questions your agent can now answer

"What does a VPN cost per month right now, and which three are cheapest?"
"Compare travel eSIM prices per GB for a summer trip."
"How much does an applicant tracking system cost for a single recruiter?"
"Wat kost een wachtwoordmanager per maand in Nederland?"

Data

The server reads the live Price Index JSON endpoints of the Shortlist comparison sites (republished monthly, cached one hour) and the open dataset repository:

Dataset with monthly history: https://github.com/ies86/shortlist-price-index
Kaggle mirror: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ries86/shortlist-price-index

License: data CC BY 4.0 (attribution + link to the cited source site), code MIT.

Run locally

Terminal

npm install
npm run dev
# MCP endpoint on http://localhost:3000/mcp

Self-host with Docker

The included Dockerfile builds a self-contained image of the same server (the production endpoint above is the hosted equivalent):

Terminal

docker build -t shortlist-mcp .
docker run -p 3000:3000 shortlist-mcp
# MCP endpoint on http://localhost:3000/mcp

Built with mcp-handler on Next.js, deployed on Vercel.

Frequently Asked Questions about Shortlist Price Index

Add the following block to your claude_desktop_config.json under mcpServers: "mcpServers": { "shortlist-price-index": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "Shortlist Price Index"] } }