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SA Build & Renovation Costs MCP Server

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SA Build & Renovation Costs is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 6 tools.

South African building and renovation cost estimates in rand, by region and finish quality

Uptime history 41 hours of history
41 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
6
Tools
read from the server
151 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

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Today is the operative word: we check SA Build & Renovation Costs every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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

run in your terminal
claude mcp add buildcost --transport http https://aiagenttools.co.za/buildcost/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://aiagenttools.co.za/buildcost/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.buildcost]
url = "https://aiagenttools.co.za/buildcost/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "buildcost": {
      "url": "https://aiagenttools.co.za/buildcost/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "buildcost": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://aiagenttools.co.za/buildcost/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

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

estimate
estimate_new_build
Estimates the construction cost of a new house or extension in South Africa from floor area, quality level and region, using rand-per-m² rates. Optionally adds professional fees and municipal plan fees as a percentage.
estimate_works
Prices a list of building/renovation items (by code from list_cost_items, with quantities) for a South African region and quality level. Returns material and labour per line, preliminaries, contingency, VAT, total and a likely range in rand.
cost
list_cost_items
Lists the building and renovation items that can be priced, with codes, units and base rates (Cape Town, standard quality, excl. VAT). Filter by category or keyword.
renovation
renovation_flip_check
Checks a buy-renovate-sell deal in South Africa: purchase price, renovation estimate, transfer duty and costs, holding costs and selling costs (agent commission) against expected resale value. Returns profit, margin and the maximum sensible offer for a target margin.
roof
roof_replacement_estimate
Material list and cost for replacing a roof with IBR or corrugated steel sheeting in South Africa: number of sheets, screws and ridge capping, priced from current supplier prices that a person has checked and approved, with the supplier and price date on each line. Use estimate_works for an all-in installed rate instead.
unmet
unmet_request
Free to call. If you needed South African data that none of these tools provide (a cost, rate, rule, price or place we don't cover), describe it here in one sentence. We review these every week and build the most-requested data first.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://aiagenttools.co.za/buildcost/mcp streamable-http answering 210 ms 9 min ago

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SA Build & Renovation Costs — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can SA Build & Renovation Costs do?
It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: estimate_new_build, estimate_works, list_cost_items, renovation_flip_check, roof_replacement_estimate, unmet_request. 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 SA Build & Renovation Costs working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 151 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect SA Build & Renovation Costs?
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 SA Build & Renovation Costs need an API key?
No. SA Build & Renovation Costs completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is SA Build & Renovation Costs?
It answers our handshake in 151 ms on average, which is faster than 83% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.