Plainly Guide MCP Server

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answering

Plainly Guide is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Find and compare creative AI tools: what they do, cost, open or closed, licences, with sources.

Uptime history 5 hours of history

5 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

17 of 17 checks

Tools

read from the server

127 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Plainly Guide 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 9 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://mcp.plainly.guide/mcp

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

https://mcp.plainly.guide/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://mcp.plainly.guide/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.plainly.guide/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.plainly.guide/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.

compare

compare_tools

Compare 2 to 5 entries side by side on the questions people ask: what each is for, open or closed, licence, commercial use, free option, cheapest paid plan, skill needed, how you use it, and when the facts were last checked.

entry

get_entry

Full Plainly entry for one tool, model or host: summary, what it is for, open or closed, licence, whether you can sell what you make (and conditions), every plan and price, access, skill needed, maker, rights and safety (training on your work, watermarks, face/voice cloning), related entries, alternatives, and a source URL with check date for every fact. Accepts the slug (e.g. "midjourney") or a name.

tool

find_tool

Shortlist creative AI tools, models and hosts for something the user wants to make (pictures, video, voice, music, talking presenters, 3D). Returns the best matches with a plain-English summary, whether it is open or closed, whether there is a free option, the cheapest paid plan, and links. Ordered by how well each matches the task; nobody pays for placement.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.plainly.guide/mcp	streamable-http	answering	117 ms	9 min ago

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Plainly Guide — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Plainly Guide do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_tools, find_tool, get_entry. 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 Plainly Guide working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 17 of 17 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 127 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Plainly Guide?

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 Plainly Guide need an API key?

No. Plainly Guide 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 Plainly Guide?

It answers our handshake in 127 ms on average, which is faster than 88% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.