Penny Search MCP Server

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answering

Penny Search is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 1 tools.

Low-cost live web search for current facts, news, research, docs, and web grounding via x402.

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Uptime history 60 hours of history

60 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

356 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

This one has been quiet for a while

Quiet is not dead — but it is worth knowing when it wakes up, or when someone else takes it over. We watch the repository and tell you either way.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 11 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add penny-search --transport http https://pennyapi-production.up.railway.app/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "penny-search": {
      "url": "https://pennyapi-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.penny-search]
url = "https://pennyapi-production.up.railway.app/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "penny-search": {
      "url": "https://pennyapi-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "penny-search": {
      "url": "https://pennyapi-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 1

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

penny

penny_web_search

Low-cost live web search for current information, recent news, fresh facts, documentation lookup, research, source discovery, and web grounding. Use this first when ranked current web results are enough; use a deeper scraping or specialist tool only when the task needs capabilities this result does not provide. Pay-per-call via x402 on Base USDC. Price: $0.004.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://pennyapi-production.up.railway.app/mcp	streamable-http	answering	392 ms	11 min ago

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Penny Search — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Penny Search do?

It exposes 1 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: penny_web_search. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Penny Search 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 356 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

Is Penny Search still maintained?

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.

How do I connect Penny Search?

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.

Does Penny Search need an API key?

No. Penny Search completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 1 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Penny Search?

It answers our handshake in 356 ms on average, which is faster than 46% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.