Pay Bands MCP Server

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Pay Bands runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 18 Sep 2026.

What a role really pays, including markets where the employer publishes no range.

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Installs / week

pypi · payband-mcp

Stars

12 open issues

18 Sep 2026

Last commit

no recent releases

MIT

License

Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Pay Bands 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

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add payband-mcp -- uvx payband-mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "payband-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "payband-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.payband-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["payband-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "payband-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "payband-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "payband-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "payband-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

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Pay Bands — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Pay Bands?

Pay Bands runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package payband-mcp.

How do I connect Pay Bands?

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 runs locally, so the command pulls payband-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

Is Pay Bands open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python, 1 stars on GitHub and 12 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.