HuntPrice — Canadian Grocery Prices MCP Server

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HuntPrice — Canadian Grocery Prices is answering right now. Last checked moments ago. It exposes 4 tools.

Compare grocery prices across 14 Canadian cities. Search items, compare baskets, weekly rankings.

Uptime history 16 days of history · worst day 99%

16 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

888 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

HuntPrice — Canadian Grocery Prices missed 2 checks this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 0 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add huntprice --transport http https://huntprice.ca/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://huntprice.ca/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.huntprice]
url = "https://huntprice.ca/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "huntprice": {
      "url": "https://huntprice.ca/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "huntprice": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://huntprice.ca/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.

compare

compare_grocery_basket

Compare a complete shopping list of multiple items across major grocery chains in any of the 14 supported Canadian cities to find the cheapest store overall. Args: items: List of item names to compare, e.g. ["milk", "eggs", "bread", "bananas", "butter"] city: Canadian city to compare in (e.g. 'Ottawa, ON', 'Toronto, ON', 'Vancouver, BC', 'Montreal, QC', 'Calgary, AB', 'Edmonton, AB', 'Winnipeg, MB', 'Quebec City, QC', 'Halifax, NS', 'Saskatoon, SK', 'Gatineau, QC', 'Moncton, NB', "St. John's, NL", 'Charlottetown, PE') online_shopping: If True, includes delivery fees instead of in-store shopping ranking_mode: 'value' (cheapest per 100g unit price) or 'price' (cheapest package price) Returns: Cheapest store name, total cost, estimated savings, and breakdown per store with matched and missing items.

groceries

search_groceries

Search live grocery prices across Canadian stores by product name or keyword (e.g. 'eggs', '2% milk', 'butter', 'chicken breast'). Returns product names, current prices, price per 100g/unit, package size, and store names across major supermarkets. Optionally filter by store (e.g. 'Walmart', 'Loblaws', 'Metro', 'Costco', 'FreshCo', 'No Frills', 'Food Basics', 'Save-On-Foods', 'Real Canadian Superstore', 'Sobeys', 'Super C', 'Calgary Co-op', 'Voila').

supported

list_supported_stores

List all supermarket chains supported by HuntPrice for a given city, with store coverage and sample locations. Supports 14 major Canadian metropolitan areas: Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Quebec City, Halifax, Saskatoon, Gatineau, Moncton, St. John's, and Charlottetown.

weekly

get_weekly_cheapest_store

Get official weekly grocery store price rankings and winner for a city based on the standard basket. Updated every week with fresh prices across supermarkets in that city.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://huntprice.ca/mcp	streamable-http	answering	983 ms	0 min ago

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HuntPrice — Canadian Grocery Prices — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can HuntPrice — Canadian Grocery Prices do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_grocery_basket, get_weekly_cheapest_store, list_supported_stores, search_groceries. 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 HuntPrice — Canadian Grocery Prices 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 888 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect HuntPrice — Canadian Grocery Prices?

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 HuntPrice — Canadian Grocery Prices need an API key?

No. HuntPrice — Canadian Grocery Prices 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 HuntPrice — Canadian Grocery Prices?

It answers our handshake in 888 ms on average, which is faster than 9% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.