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Trusted Vendors MCP Server

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Trusted Vendors is answering right now. Last checked 13 min ago. It exposes 8 tools.

Startup software vendors ranked by Proven Score, with public deals. Read-only, no sign-in.

Uptime history 14 hours of history
14 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
50 of 50 checks
8
Tools
read from the server
90 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 2

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 10 November 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

10 Nov a tool appeared what_startups_use
10 Nov a tool changed version

Nothing serious here today

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

run in your terminal
claude mcp add trust-index --transport http https://index.getproven.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://index.getproven.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.trust-index]
url = "https://index.getproven.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trust-index": {
      "url": "https://index.getproven.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "trust-index": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://index.getproven.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_vendors
Side-by-side Proven Scores, score inputs and offers for two vendors.
credits
get_credits_page
A startup deals page in full: AI credits, cloud credits or developer tool credits for startups (each vendor's offer with its value, who qualifies, access: public deal, VC-backed only via the work-email check or through investor networks, claimed count, claim or check URL, how to claim and FAQs), or startup-deals (every public deal grouped by category, sorted by value). Values, counts and conditions come only from the deals data, claim counts and eligibility; nothing is estimated. Call with no slug to list the pages.
offers
get_offers
A vendor's offers: public offers in full; network-tier offers only as "Offer available" with a banded amount; redemption URLs for VC-backed companies (redemption.vc_backed) and any other startup (redemption.public). For vendors whose startup offers only go through investor networks (flow network_only): the statement, the work-email check URL and public deals in the same category. Each public offer has about: who_qualifies, customers (new / existing), limits and stacking quoted verbatim from the terms, and the full terms, only where the data says.
pack
get_pack
One startup pack in full: each pick with category, Proven Score, band, portfolio usage, its deal (claim_url for public deals), where it is available and the reason it was picked, plus claim_all_url to claim every public deal with one sign-in. With country, a pick not available there is replaced by the next vendor in its category that is (or left out if none is).
packs
get_packs
Startup packs: the tools a startup needs at a stage (early-stage, AI, fundraising, first hires, compliance, go-to-market, seed to Series A ops), each with its vendors, audience, number of public deals and total deal value. Picks are chosen by data from the Proven Trust Index.
vendor
get_vendor
A vendor's full public record: Proven Score with every input, best-for facts, offers, alternatives, FAQs and, where known, portfolio_usage (how many portfolio companies in investor networks on Proven use it, with as_of; anonymised counts) search_demand (founder searches for it on Proven and the number of investor networks they came from, with the period) and eligibility (where a company must be registered to use it, company requirements, who it is not available for, with source_url on the vendor's own website). Check eligibility before recommending a vendor.
vendors
find_vendors
Ranked vendors for a buying need (e.g. "payroll for a 10-person startup in Ireland"): name, profile URL, Proven Score, band, one-line description, and whether a public or network offer exists.
what
what_startups_use
Which vendors startups actually use for a job, counted from software stacks shared on Proven by portfolio companies in investor networks (about 2,700 companies). Use it when someone building a product asks which provider to pick (auth, database, email API, payments, error monitoring, CRM...). Returns vendors ranked by companies_using, with Proven Score and deal. Only vendors listed on Proven; companies are never named.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://index.getproven.com/mcp streamable-http answering 98 ms 13 min ago

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Trusted Vendors — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Trusted Vendors do?
It exposes 8 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_vendors, find_vendors, get_credits_page, get_offers, get_pack, get_packs 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 Trusted Vendors working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 50 of 50 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 90 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Trusted Vendors?
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 Trusted Vendors need an API key?
No. Trusted Vendors 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 Trusted Vendors?
It answers our handshake in 90 ms on average, which is faster than 95% 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.