Lunch Money runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 480 installs a week from npm. Last commit 3 Aug 2026.
MCP server for managing LunchMoney personal finances: transactions, budgets, categories, and more.
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check Lunch Money every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
Connect this server
This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.
claude mcp add lunchmoney-mcp -e 'LUNCHMONEY_API_TOKEN=<LUNCHMONEY_API_TOKEN>' -- npx -y @akutishevsky/lunchmoney-mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"lunchmoney-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@akutishevsky/lunchmoney-mcp"
],
"env": {
"LUNCHMONEY_API_TOKEN": "<LUNCHMONEY_API_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}[mcp_servers.lunchmoney-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@akutishevsky/lunchmoney-mcp"]
env = { LUNCHMONEY_API_TOKEN = "<LUNCHMONEY_API_TOKEN>" }{
"mcpServers": {
"lunchmoney-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@akutishevsky/lunchmoney-mcp"
],
"env": {
"LUNCHMONEY_API_TOKEN": "<LUNCHMONEY_API_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"lunchmoney-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@akutishevsky/lunchmoney-mcp"
],
"env": {
"LUNCHMONEY_API_TOKEN": "<LUNCHMONEY_API_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}Put your own value in place of
<LUNCHMONEY_API_TOKEN> (Your LunchMoney API token. Obtain it from https://my.lunchmoney.app/settings/developer).
The author’s registry entry marks it as required.
Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
LUNCHMONEY_DEBUG (Set to 'true' to enable debug logging of API requests and responses to stderr).
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