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NeedAnAI — AI tool catalogue MCP Server

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NeedAnAI — AI tool catalogue is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. 266 installs a week from npm. It exposes 14 tools.

Search, compare and watch 15,000+ AI tools: pricing, alternatives, liveness. Free, no auth.

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Installs per day peak 193 · avg 11 · +2560% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 5 days of history
5 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
14
Tools
read from the server
252 ms
Response time
average over 24h
266
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

What the code does

We have not read this server's code yet, 3 d ago · tools taken from the live server · rules 995398eba69f

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

File ships in the package but is absent from the source [пакет] bin/needanai-mcp.mjs:1
этот файл ставится пользователю, но в репозитории его нет

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This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

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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.

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

Available tools 14

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

alternatives
find_alternatives
Alternatives to a tool, ranked by freshness, profile completeness, curation and how many other tools list them as an alternative. Each entry carries a rationale. Optionally restrict to the same pricing model.
article
get_article
The full markdown body of one article by slug.
articles
search_articles
Search 660+ editorial articles (reviews, comparisons, alternatives round-ups, guides) by keywords and optional category.
compare
compare_tools
Side-by-side comparison of 2–5 tools: pricing, summary, categories, tasks, pros, cons, site status, freshness, flags and launch date.
export
export_tools
Bulk export of a filtered slice of the catalogue (up to 2,000 rows) as JSON or CSV. Returns a signed download URL valid for 24 hours. Requires an API key.
recommend
recommend_for_task
Given a job to be done ("create a logo", "transcribe meetings") and an optional budget, returns the best-fitting tools with an explicit rationale per recommendation. Resolves known task slugs first, then falls back to free-text search.
status
check_status
Is the tool’s site alive? Returns the scanner verdict, when it was last checked and verified, when pricing was last checked, and a freshness label.
submit
submit_tool
Suggest a tool for the catalogue. If its website is already listed the existing listing is returned instead. Requires an API key.
taxonomy
list_taxonomy
All category or task slugs with names and live tool counts. Use the slugs as filters for search_tools and recommend_for_task.
tool
get_tool
Full profile of one tool by slug: description, pricing model and details (with when pricing was last checked), pricing history, pros, cons, FAQs, categories, tasks, media, site status, freshness and up to five alternatives. Ends with a provenance line.
tools
search_tools
Search the NeedAnAI catalogue of 15,000+ AI tools by free text, pricing model, category or task. Returns ranked hits with pricing, status, freshness (when the site was last confirmed alive) and canonical URLs, plus facet counts and a separate, labelled sponsored block. Use list_taxonomy for valid category and task slugs.
unwatch
unwatch_tool
Stop a watch by id.
watch
watch_tool
Subscribe to status and pricing changes for a tool (checked every 30 minutes). Delivered to an https webhook or email. Requires an API key (free, from https://needanai.com/profile?tab=api-keys).
watches
list_watches
Active watches on this API key.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.needanai.com/mcp streamable-http answering 168 ms 8 min ago

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NeedAnAI — AI tool catalogue — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can NeedAnAI — AI tool catalogue do?
It exposes 14 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_status, compare_tools, export_tools, find_alternatives, get_article, get_tool and 8 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 NeedAnAI — AI tool catalogue 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 252 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Is NeedAnAI — AI tool catalogue still maintained?
The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.
How do I connect NeedAnAI — AI tool catalogue?
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 NeedAnAI — AI tool catalogue need an API key?
No. NeedAnAI — AI tool catalogue completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 14 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is NeedAnAI — AI tool catalogue?
It answers our handshake in 252 ms on average, which is faster than 57% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
How many people use NeedAnAI — AI tool catalogue?
The npm package @needanai/mcp was installed 266 times in the last week. Week over week that is +2560%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.