A side-by-side look at the Yahoo Finance2 and Xinkuang China Stock MCP MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Yahoo Finance2 for finance & fintech work; choose Xinkuang China Stock MCP for finance & fintech over a hosted endpoint. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | Y Yahoo Finance2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Finance & Fintech | Finance & Fintech |
| Quality signal | 43/100 · Fair | 44/100 · Fair |
| Install command | Not confirmed yet | Confirmed |
| Transport | — | Remote HTTP/SSE |
| Auth | No auth required | No auth required |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| Required env vars | None listed | None listed |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 808 | 46 |
| Directory activity | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 6 views 1 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | Not listed | Not listed |
| Full listing | View Yahoo Finance2 | View Xinkuang China Stock MCP |
No tool names declared yet. Check the project README from the listing page.
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.
No confirmed install command for Yahoo Finance2 yet — follow the setup steps linked from its listing page rather than a guessed package name.
{
"mcpServers": {
"xinkuang-china-stock-mcp": {
"url": "http://localhost:8081/mcp"
}
}
}