Linkup MCP Server

by linkup-mcp Your server? Claim it

answering

Linkup is answering right now. Last checked 6 min ago.

Search the web in real time to get trustworthy, source-backed answers.

Uptime history 52 days of history

52 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

—

Tools

hidden behind auth

454 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

sse

Nothing serious here today

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

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 6 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add linkup-mcp-server --transport http https://mcp.linkup.so

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "linkup-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://mcp.linkup.so"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.linkup-mcp-server]
url = "https://mcp.linkup.so"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "linkup-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://mcp.linkup.so"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "linkup-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://mcp.linkup.so"
    }
  }
}

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.linkup.so	sse	answering	391 ms	6 min ago

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Linkup — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Is Linkup 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 454 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Linkup?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Linkup need an API key?

No. Linkup completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Linkup?

It answers our handshake in 454 ms on average, which is faster than 34% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.