Plain Freight MCP Server

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Plain Freight is answering right now. Last checked moments ago. It exposes 3 tools. Last commit 15 Sep 2026.

All-in DDP quotes for China to USA shipments, 100 g to 2,000 kg, from a live rate card

Uptime history 73 hours of history

73 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

331 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 15 Sep 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Plain Freight 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 0 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add quotes --transport http https://plainfreight.com/api/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "quotes": {
      "url": "https://plainfreight.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.quotes]
url = "https://plainfreight.com/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "quotes": {
      "url": "https://plainfreight.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "quotes": {
      "url": "https://plainfreight.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

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

generate

generate_offer

Get an all-in DDP offer (freight, US customs clearance, duties, and US door delivery in one USD number) for a shipment from China to the USA, 100 g to 2,000 kg. Prices come from Plain Freight's live pricing engine. Provide dimensions when known: for light bulky cargo volumetric weight governs the price. After this returns, an async agent double-checks the shipment; call check_offer_status with the quote_id to pick up its verdict, extra questions, or a needs_review flag.

offer

check_offer_status

Poll a generated offer until the async agent check settles. Returns settled (true once the check finished), possibly updated options and summary text, follow-up questions whose answers change the price or customs channel, and needs_review. If needs_review is true the prices are withheld on purpose: the goods look restricted (batteries, food, chemicals) and a human must clear them first. Tell the user Plain Freight will follow up by email; do not present a number. Branded goods are never held; they are priced on the branded channel.

track

track_shipment

Read the live tracking record for a booked shipment. Requires the tracking link from the booking email (https://plainfreight.com/track/<token>) or the bare token; the token is the credential, so only someone the customer shared the link with can read the record. Returns the shipment reference, the current stage on the 10-stage lifecycle (Booking through Delivered), shipment details, and the dated event log. Read-only: to change a booking or ask a question, email [email protected] and include the shipment reference.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://plainfreight.com/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	294 ms	0 min ago

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Plain Freight — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Plain Freight do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_offer_status, generate_offer, track_shipment. 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 Plain Freight working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 331 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Plain Freight?

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 Plain Freight need an API key?

No. Plain Freight completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Plain Freight?

It answers our handshake in 331 ms on average, which is faster than 47% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Plain Freight open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence 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.