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EffectHub MCP Server

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EffectHub is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

Search and compare 3,000+ checked AI tools: pricing, liveness, Effect and Trust scores.

Uptime history 12 days of history · worst day 98%
12 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
257 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

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

Three servers free · no card

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.

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

Available tools 4

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

alternatives
list_alternatives
Tools that do the same job as the given one. Alternatives our research named for this tool come first (basis "researched"), then live tools from the same category (basis "category"). Discontinued tools are left out.
compare
compare_tools
Two EffectHub tool cards side by side — pricing, scores, platforms, API, liveness — plus the differences in plain sentences. When EffectHub has a researched head-to-head page for the pair, comparison_url links to it.
tool
get_tool
Everything public on one EffectHub tool card: what it does, category, pricing model and entry price, Effect score, Trust score, platforms, whether it is still alive and when that was last checked, and the card URL. Takes the tool's slug (from search_tools, or the last part of https://effecthub.net/ai/{slug}).
tools
search_tools
Search the EffectHub catalog of AI tools by product name, job to be done ("transcribe interviews") or category ("video editing"). Optionally narrow by task slug, category slug or pricing model. Returns published, live tools with pricing, Effect score and a link to each card on effecthub.net.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://effecthub.net/api/mcp streamable-http answering 258 ms 9 min ago

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EffectHub — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can EffectHub do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_tools, get_tool, list_alternatives, search_tools. 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 EffectHub 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 257 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect EffectHub?
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 EffectHub need an API key?
No. EffectHub completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is EffectHub?
It answers our handshake in 257 ms on average, which is faster than 65% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.