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VIES Smoother MCP Server

io.github.Lucrumist/vies-smoother
answering

VIES Smoother is answering right now. Last checked 4 min ago. It exposes 2 tools.

SLA'd EU VAT validation on VIES. Honest 3-state result, never guesses. 100 free lookups.

Uptime history 39 hours of history
39 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
2
Tools
read from the server
277 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 4 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add vies-smoother --transport http https://vantane.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vies-smoother": {
      "url": "https://vantane.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.vies-smoother]
url = "https://vantane.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vies-smoother": {
      "url": "https://vantane.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vies-smoother": {
      "url": "https://vantane.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 2

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

validate
validate_vat
Validate a single EU VAT number. Costs 1 credit unless upstream is unavailable and there's no cache (then it's free and honest about it). Args: country_code: 2-letter EU member state code (e.g. DE, FR, EL, XI). vat_number: The VAT number without the country prefix.
validate_vat_batch
Validate up to 50 EU VAT numbers in one call. 1 credit per item that gets a real answer (unavailable_upstream items are free). Args: items: list of {"country_code": str, "vat_number": str}, max 50.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://vantane.com/mcp streamable-http answering 312 ms 4 min ago

VIES Smoother — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can VIES Smoother do?
It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: validate_vat, validate_vat_batch. 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 VIES Smoother 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 277 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect VIES Smoother?
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 VIES Smoother need an API key?
No. VIES Smoother completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is VIES Smoother?
It answers our handshake in 277 ms on average, which is faster than 49% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.