Avalara Cross-Border MCP Server

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Avalara Cross-Border is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. Last commit 30 Jul 2026.

Cross-border duty-rate and Trade & Tariff content lookups with product compliance and restrictions

Uptime history 47 days of history

47 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

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Tools

hidden behind auth

890 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 30 Jul 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Avalara Cross-Border 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

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 14 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add cross-border --transport http https://mcp.avalara.com/cross-border

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cross-border": {
      "url": "https://mcp.avalara.com/cross-border"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.cross-border]
url = "https://mcp.avalara.com/cross-border"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cross-border": {
      "url": "https://mcp.avalara.com/cross-border"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cross-border": {
      "url": "https://mcp.avalara.com/cross-border"
    }
  }
}

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, and it signs you in through your browser: there is no API key to paste.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.avalara.com/cross-border	streamable-http	sign-in	832 ms	14 min ago

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Avalara Cross-Border — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no tool list for Avalara Cross-Border?

The server answered our handshake with an authorization challenge, so it is running — but it will not describe its tools to an anonymous client. To see them you need to connect with your own credentials. We record it as alive, not as broken: 100.0% of checks in the last 24 hours got a reply.

Is Avalara Cross-Border working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 890 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Avalara Cross-Border?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address. You sign in through your browser once and the client keeps the session: no key to copy, and it refuses anonymous clients.

How do you sign in to Avalara Cross-Border?

No API key is involved. Avalara Cross-Border answers our knock with an OAuth challenge, so you authorise it once in your browser and the client keeps the session. That is also why we see no tool list: it will not describe itself to an anonymous client, and that is the server working as intended, not a fault.

How fast is Avalara Cross-Border?

It answers our handshake in 890 ms on average, which is faster than 11% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Avalara Cross-Border open source?

We cannot say either way: 4 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.