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Digital in Asia MCP Server

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Digital in Asia is answering right now. Last checked 4 min ago. It exposes 8 tools.

Asia's digital economy: AI, gaming, ecommerce, payments. Articles, trackers, reports, glossary.

Uptime history 5 days of history
5 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
8
Tools
read from the server
134 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Digital in Asia 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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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 4 min ago.

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

Available tools 8

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

compare
compare_markets
Put two or more Asian markets side by side using Digital in Asia's tracker data. Optionally limit to a topic (payments, ecommerce, gaming, AI policy, AI models). Returns comparison tables with source links.
country
get_country_profile
Overview of one Asian digital market from Digital in Asia: the country hub summary, that country's rows from every DIA tracker (payments, ecommerce, gaming, AI policy, AI model access), and the most relevant recent articles. Markets: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka.
dia
search_dia
Semantic search across Digital in Asia articles, trackers, reports and glossary on Asia's digital economy (AI, gaming, ecommerce, payments, super apps, policy). Understands natural-language questions. Returns titles, URLs, dates and the most relevant passages.
glossary
get_glossary_term
Look up a term in the Digital in Asia glossary (103 terms, e.g. UPI, QRIS, super app, live commerce, sovereign AI). Returns the definition and link; suggests close matches.
latest
get_latest_articles
The most recent Digital in Asia articles, optionally filtered by a phrase.
report
get_report_summary
Key findings and section headings of a Digital in Asia research report (fintech and digital payments, AI in Asia, Southeast Asia ecommerce, Vietnam gaming), plus the link to the free PDF.
reports
list_reports
List Digital in Asia's free research reports with titles, descriptions, dates and links.
tracker
get_tracker
Get structured data tables from a Digital in Asia market tracker (payment rails, LLM availability and benchmarks, gaming, ecommerce marketplaces, AI policy, AI market size). Call with no arguments to list trackers.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.digitalinasia.com/mcp streamable-http answering 115 ms 4 min ago

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Digital in Asia — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Digital in Asia do?
It exposes 8 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_markets, get_country_profile, get_glossary_term, get_latest_articles, get_report_summary, get_tracker and 2 more. 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 Digital in Asia 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 134 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Digital in Asia?
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 Digital in Asia need an API key?
No. Digital in Asia completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 8 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Digital in Asia?
It answers our handshake in 134 ms on average, which is faster than 86% 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.