Syftly MCP Server

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not responding

Syftly is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 1 tools.

Ranks the best AI tool or API per task: transcription, TTS, web search, scraping and OCR.

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 3%

91 days agonow

3.3%

Uptime 24h

3 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

749 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 1

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 20 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

20 Aug a tool description was rewritten find_best_tool

Syftly does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 6.6% 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 8 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add syftly --transport http https://syftly.vercel.app/api/mcp

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

https://syftly.vercel.app/api/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.syftly]
url = "https://syftly.vercel.app/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "syftly": {
      "url": "https://syftly.vercel.app/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "syftly": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://syftly.vercel.app/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 1

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

best

find_best_tool

Given a natural-language question about which AI tool or API is best for a task (currently transcription, text-to-speech, web search, scraping & browser and ocr & document extraction), return Syftly's ranked recommendation: a citeable summary, a provider table with prices and trade-offs, dated sources, and a confidence label. Ask in plain English about price, accuracy, language or capability trade-offs — e.g. 'best OCR API for scanned PDFs' or 'best web scraping API for JavaScript-heavy sites'. Optionally pass "category" to disambiguate; otherwise it is detected from the question.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://syftly.vercel.app/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	69 ms	8 min ago

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Syftly — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Syftly do?

It exposes 1 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_best_tool. 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 Syftly working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 3 of 91 checks got a reply (3.3%), average response time 749 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists Syftly 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 Syftly?

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 Syftly need an API key?

No. Syftly completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 1 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Syftly?

It answers our handshake in 749 ms on average, which is faster than 11% 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.