Big Mac Index MCP Server

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Big Mac Index is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. Last commit 24 Oct 2026.

big-mac-index — The Economist's Big Mac index: what a Big Mac costs in each country, in local…

Uptime history 11 days of history

11 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

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Tools

hidden behind auth

222 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 24 Oct 2026

Nothing serious here today

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

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 14 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add big-mac-index --transport http https://gateway.pipeworx.io/big-mac-index/mcp

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

https://gateway.pipeworx.io/big-mac-index/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.big-mac-index]
url = "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/big-mac-index/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "big-mac-index": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/big-mac-index/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "big-mac-index": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/big-mac-index/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://gateway.pipeworx.io/big-mac-index/mcp	streamable-http	answering	135 ms	14 min ago

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Big Mac Index — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Is Big Mac Index 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 222 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Big Mac Index?

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 Big Mac Index need an API key?

No. Big Mac Index completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Big Mac Index?

It answers our handshake in 222 ms on average, which is faster than 73% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Big Mac Index open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at gateway.pipeworx.io, which runs on its operator's own terms.