Launch529: 529 plans and college costs MCP Server

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Launch529: 529 plans and college costs is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 7 tools.

Compare state 529 plans, look up college costs and check qualified 529 expenses. Free, no key.

Uptime history 21 days of history · worst day 0%

21 days agonow

0.0%

Uptime 24h

0 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

97 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Launch529: 529 plans and college costs does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 9.2% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not 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 10 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add open-data --transport http https://launch529.com/api/public/mcp

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

https://launch529.com/api/public/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.open-data]
url = "https://launch529.com/api/public/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "open-data": {
      "url": "https://launch529.com/api/public/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "open-data": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://launch529.com/api/public/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 7

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

529

get_529_plan

Everything we know about one 529 plan: fees, minimums, investment options, ratings, state tax benefit, restrictions and features. Use the slug from list_529_plans, or the plan's name.

list_529_plans

List state 529 savings plans, ranked by popularity and ratings, with fees, Morningstar and Saving For College ratings, state tax benefit and whether residents of other states can join. Filter by state, by plans anyone can open, by maximum yearly fee, or by minimum rating.

compare

compare_529_plans

Compare two to four 529 plans side by side on fees, ratings, tax benefit, minimums and who can join.

estimate

estimate_college_cost

Project what college will cost and what to save. Give a US school id and the year the student starts. Returns the projected cost per year and in total, and the monthly amount that would fully fund it from today, assuming steady returns after the plan's fees.

expense

check_expense

Say whether a college expense is a qualified 529 expense (for example 'laptop', 'off-campus rent', 'gas', 'student health insurance') with the reason, based on IRS Publication 970.

school

get_school

Details for one US school by id: current sticker price, average net price, net price by family income, cost history since 2005, graduation rate and median earnings. Get the id from search_schools.

schools

search_schools

Find colleges and universities by name, in the US and 529-eligible schools abroad. Returns each school's id, location and annual published costs (tuition, room and board, books). Use get_school with the id for cost history and net price.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://launch529.com/api/public/mcp	streamable-http	answering	97 ms	10 min ago

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Launch529: 529 plans and college costs — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Launch529: 529 plans and college costs do?

It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_expense, compare_529_plans, estimate_college_cost, get_529_plan, get_school, list_529_plans and 1 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 Launch529: 529 plans and college costs working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 91 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 97 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists Launch529: 529 plans and college costs as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

How do I connect Launch529: 529 plans and college costs?

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 Launch529: 529 plans and college costs need an API key?

No. Launch529: 529 plans and college costs completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.