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Local Model Suitability MCP Server

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Local Model Suitability MCP is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. 111 installs a week from npm. It exposes 1 tools. Last commit 7 Sep 2026.

Check if a task runs locally vs cloud. Save money on calls that don't need cloud inference.

Installs per day peak 176 · avg 33 · -18% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 47 days of history · worst day 98%
47 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
1
Tools
read from the server
348 ms
Response time
average over 24h
111
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

What changed 4

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 19 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

7 Sep a tool changed version2 times that day
24 Aug a tool changed version
19 Aug a tool changed version
and 1 more, back to 19 August 2026

Nothing serious here today

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

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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 10 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add local-model-suitability-mcp --transport http https://local-model-suitability-mcp-production.up.railway.app
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "local-model-suitability-mcp": {
      "url": "https://local-model-suitability-mcp-production.up.railway.app"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.local-model-suitability-mcp]
url = "https://local-model-suitability-mcp-production.up.railway.app"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "local-model-suitability-mcp": {
      "url": "https://local-model-suitability-mcp-production.up.railway.app"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "local-model-suitability-mcp": {
      "url": "https://local-model-suitability-mcp-production.up.railway.app"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: ANTHROPIC_API_KEY (Anthropic API key for Claude routing analysis). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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.

local
check_local_viability
Checks whether a task can be handled by a local model instead of a cloud API. Call this BEFORE your agent routes any task to a cloud model — at the moment a task is ready to be sent and the model has not yet been selected. Use this when your agent is about to make a cloud inference call and wants to determine whether a local model could handle it at lower cost. Returns LOCAL/CLOUD/EITHER verdict with recommended model. If verdict is LOCAL, skip the cloud call entirely — saves cost on every routable inference call. Pass data_sensitivity=CONFIDENTIAL to force LOCAL verdict for tasks that must not leave the machine. Do not route to cloud without checking local viability first.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://local-model-suitability-mcp-production.up.railway.app streamable-http answering 348 ms 10 min ago

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Local Model Suitability MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Local Model Suitability MCP do?
It exposes 1 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_local_viability. 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 Local Model Suitability MCP 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 348 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Local Model Suitability MCP?
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 Local Model Suitability MCP need an API key?
No. Local Model Suitability MCP 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 Local Model Suitability MCP?
It answers our handshake in 348 ms on average, which is faster than 44% 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 Local Model Suitability MCP?
The npm package local-model-suitability-mcp was installed 111 times in the last week. Week over week that is -18%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Local Model Suitability MCP open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.