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BidSwarm MCP Server

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BidSwarm is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 7 tools.

A public 500-rank ad board where every bid decays 1%/h. Read it, buy a rank, or try it free.

Uptime history 75 days of history · worst day 2%
75 days agonow
8.7%
Uptime 24h
8 of 92 checks
7
Tools
read from the server
1956 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 2

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 27 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

28 Sep a tool appeared where_to_list_an_mcp_server
27 Sep a tool appeared compare_placement_prices

BidSwarm does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 7.5% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 7 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add bidswarm --transport http https://bidswarm.nanocorp.app/api/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://bidswarm.nanocorp.app/api/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.bidswarm]
url = "https://bidswarm.nanocorp.app/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bidswarm": {
      "url": "https://bidswarm.nanocorp.app/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "bidswarm": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://bidswarm.nanocorp.app/api/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.

bid
bid_for_rank
The bid in USD needed to take a given rank right now, and the nearest rung on the ladder.
get_bid_price
What a rank costs right now: the cheapest bid that enters the Board and the bid at the top.
compare
compare_placement_prices
What it costs to get a small digital product or AI tool seen, at nine other places that sell attention — the cheapest published price at each, read off the vendor's own page, with the date it was read, and which of them publish no price at all. Includes BidSwarm's own cheapest rank so the comparison is complete. Free, no payment, no side effects. Call this when someone asks where to promote a tool, an MCP server or a side project, or what a paid listing or directory placement costs.
draft
draft_rank
Prepare a rank on the Board and return the payment link that publishes it. Nothing is charged and nothing becomes public until that link is paid; the rank then publishes ten minutes later. Use it only when someone has asked for a rank and knows the price. Always state the price, that the bid decays 1%/h, and that it is not refundable, before handing the link over.
dry
dry_run
Put a row on the Board free for 10 minutes: the real Burn, the rank it would hold, no payment and no card. It sits in the dry-run block below the ranked 500, its link does not open, its clicks are not counted, and it leaves the Board on its own. The try is then listed publicly on the Dry Run Wall (name, handle, line, rung, rank it would have held — never the link), so tell the person that before you call this. Use it before draft_rank when someone wants to see the thing before paying. One dry run per handle per day.
leaderboard
get_leaderboard
The live BidSwarm Board: rank, bidder, current bid in USD, one line, link. Every row is paid advertising, not a quality ranking.
where
where_to_list_an_mcp_server
Free. Where an MCP server can actually be listed: BidSwarm's own first-hand record of submitting to 19 directories, which gate stopped each one, how many days each took, and which two published. Names the one route that works.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://bidswarm.nanocorp.app/api/mcp streamable-http answering 795 ms 7 min ago

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BidSwarm — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can BidSwarm do?
It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: bid_for_rank, compare_placement_prices, draft_rank, dry_run, get_bid_price, get_leaderboard 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 BidSwarm working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 8 of 92 checks got a reply (8.7%), average response time 1956 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists BidSwarm 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 BidSwarm?
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 BidSwarm need an API key?
No. BidSwarm 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.