BuyerAware MCP Server

by buyerawareapp Your server? Claim it

answering

BuyerAware is answering right now. Last checked 13 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

Mechanic-grade used-car listing verdicts: risk score, failure points, repair costs, fair price.

Uptime history 25 days of history · worst day 99%

25 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

811 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check BuyerAware 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 13 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add buyeraware --transport http https://api.buyerawareapp.com/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "buyeraware": {
      "url": "https://api.buyerawareapp.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.buyeraware]
url = "https://api.buyerawareapp.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "buyeraware": {
      "url": "https://api.buyerawareapp.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "buyeraware": {
      "url": "https://api.buyerawareapp.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

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

tank

tank_alternatives

FREE, no API key needed, answers instantly. Recommend 2-3 lower-risk used vehicles ('Tanks') from BuyerAware's curated 47-platform database that land near a budget. Use when a buyer asks what to buy instead, or what is reliable for $X. Use analyze_listing instead when they have a specific car in mind.

tank_lookup

FREE, no API key needed, answers instantly. Look up one platform in BuyerAware's curated database: risk score, verdict, the one known trap, private-party value at a mileage, 5-year operating cost. Covers 47 US-market platforms; anything outside it returns no match, which is itself a signal — follow up with analyze_listing.

analyze

analyze_listing

Start a BuyerAware pre-purchase verdict on ONE used vehicle. Runs a mechanic-grade read: ranked failure points with $ exposure, recalls, seller-claim fact-check, fair price range, adjusted true cost, risk score 1-10, BUY / BUY_WITH_CONDITIONS / WALK_AWAY, a word-for-word negotiation script, and lower-risk 'Tank' alternatives. Supply whichever of listing_url, listing_text or vin you have — at least one is required, and more context sharpens the verdict. Takes ~1-2 minutes: returns a job_id, then poll get_verdict. Costs 1 credit. For 'what should I buy instead' use tank_alternatives, which is free.

trial

create_trial_key

Create a BuyerAware API key so this user can run verdicts (3 free). Call this once when no key is configured, then show the user the key and tell them to save it. Do not call it again for someone who already has a key — one trial per email address.

verdict

get_verdict

Fetch the result of an analyze_listing job. If status is 'queued' or 'running', wait ~15 seconds and call again. Free — polling never costs a credit.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://api.buyerawareapp.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	822 ms	13 min ago

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BuyerAware — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can BuyerAware do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: analyze_listing, create_trial_key, get_verdict, tank_alternatives, tank_lookup. 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 BuyerAware 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 811 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect BuyerAware?

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 BuyerAware need an API key?

No. BuyerAware completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is BuyerAware?

It answers our handshake in 811 ms on average, which is faster than 13% 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.