Penny Search MCP Server

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not responding

Penny Search is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. 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 50 days of history · worst day 0%

50 days agonow

0.0%

Uptime 24h

0 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

186 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Penny Search does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 0.0% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 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

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

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

{
  "servers": {
    "penny-search": {
      "type": "http",
      "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	186 ms	9 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 0 of 91 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 186 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.

The registry lists Penny Search as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

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 in the form 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.