mcpbeat Sign in

RateAPI — live US mortgage, auto, HELOC, personal & deposit rates MCP Server

answering

RateAPI — live US mortgage, auto, HELOC, personal & deposit rates is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 89 tools.

Live US mortgage, auto, HELOC, personal & deposit rates with evidence, plus who can join each lender

Uptime history 13 days of history
13 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
89
Tools
read from the server
117 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 31

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 4 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

8 Sep a tool description was rewritten search_eligibility_entities
8 Sep a tool changed the parameters it asks for search_eligibility_entities
7 Sep a tool description was rewritten get_eligibility_coverage
6 Sep 8 tools appeared compare_personal_access_catalogs, compare_reachable_offers, evaluate_eligibility_cohort and 5 more
6 Sep 3 tools changed the parameters they ask for check_membership_eligibility, find_eligible_credit_unions, find_reachable_offers
6 Sep a tool description was rewritten find_reachable_offers
5 Sep 3 tools changed the parameters they ask for6 times that day check_membership_eligibility, find_eligible_credit_unions, find_reachable_offers
5 Sep 2 tool descriptions were rewritten4 times that day check_membership_eligibility, find_eligible_credit_unions
4 Sep 3 tool descriptions were rewritten get_deposit_benchmarks, get_deposit_beta, get_eligibility_coverage
4 Sep 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for get_deposit_benchmarks, get_deposit_beta
and 6 more, back to 4 September 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check RateAPI — live US mortgage, auto, HELOC, personal & deposit rates every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Three servers free · no card

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 mcp --transport http https://mcp.rateapi.dev/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.rateapi.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://mcp.rateapi.dev/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.rateapi.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.rateapi.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 89

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

email
create_email_campaign
Create a branded rate-email campaign: on a cadence, email the campaign's recipient list the latest rates for one or more states (or a named region preset) under the org's branding, with ONE OR MORE products (1-5, no duplicates). Each product is one of: {category:'mortgage', subtype:'30-year-fixed'|'15-year-fixed'}, {category:'auto', condition:'new'|'used'|'any', term_months?:36|48|60|72|84} (auto = cars only), or {category:'rv'|'boat'|'motorcycle', condition:'new'|'used'|'any'}. Defaults to a single 30-year-fixed mortgage if products is omitted. Created 'paused'; add recipients, then activate via update_email_campaign (activation requires branding display_name + business_address). Requires a Pro plan. Provide exactly one of state_code, state_codes, or region.
delete_email_campaign
Delete a branded rate-email campaign and its recipients. This cannot be undone.
get_email_branding
Get the organization's current email branding (display name, logo URL, brand color, intro, business address, reply-to).
list_email_campaigns
List the organization's branded rate-email campaigns (name, criteria, cadence, status, last run).
set_email_branding
Set the organization's white-label email branding: display name (used as the From name and CAN-SPAM advertiser identity), brand color (#hex), default intro text, business_address (CAN-SPAM physical address — required before a campaign can be activated), and reply_to_email. Requires a Pro plan. (Logo upload is app-only — not available over MCP.)
update_email_campaign
Update a campaign's name, geography, cadence, intro override, products, or status. products (if given) is the full replacement set (1-5, same union as create_email_campaign). Any geography field replaces the campaign's whole state selection. Set status 'active' to start sending (requires branding display_name + business_address) or 'paused' to stop. Provide exactly one of state_code, state_codes, or region.
monitor
create_monitor
Create a new decision monitor that watches for rate changes and sends webhook notifications when conditions are met. Returns the monitor with a webhook_signing_secret for verifying webhook payloads.
delete_monitor
Permanently delete a monitor. This action cannot be undone.
get_monitor
Get detailed information about a specific monitor by its ID.
get_monitor_stats
Get rollup stats for the account's rate monitors: total, active, and webhooks sent. Complements list_monitors.
update_monitor
Update an existing monitor. Only provided fields will be updated.
compare
compare_personal_access_catalogs
Compare baseline and candidate confirmed person facts across the same 1-19 explicit products. Both catalogs use one pinned immutable eligibility graph snapshot; rate rows retain independent evidence and as_of. Returns access, membership-path, and like-for-like published-price basis-point deltas: APY for deposits, APR for lending when both sides publish APR, otherwise nominal rate only when both sides publish nominal rate. It never mixes APR and nominal rate. Never describe missing access as denial or infer savings, underwriting, approval, or final terms.
compare_products
Compare the best real rates across MULTIPLE lending products in a single call — e.g. show a buyer mortgage vs HELOC, or new vs used auto. Runs the decision engine for each product and returns a ranked, true-cost (APR + fees) table. Use this instead of calling get_financing_decision repeatedly. Each product returns its top offer with rate, APR, and monthly payment.
compare_reachable_offers
Compare one baseline person-fact panel with one candidate panel against the same active eligibility snapshot and exact product request. Use this for explicit what-if questions such as adding a confirmed employer or association. Newly reachable means current positive evidence now proves a path; no_longer_reachable or absence never proves ineligibility. Supply only facts the person confirmed, preferably canonical *_org_ids from resolve_eligibility_entities. Person facts are forwarded transiently and are not stored by this tool.
compare_total_cost
Apples-to-apples multi-lender ranking by TOTAL cost of a loan (upfront origination/lender fees + lifetime interest over the holding period), not just the headline rate. Re-ranks real credit union offers and flags when the lowest-rate lender is not the cheapest overall.
rate
get_rate_delta
Compare the LIVE market rate distribution now vs ~1/2/4 weeks ago for a product and state. Returns now/then min, median, max, count plus the median and min delta and a direction (down/up/flat). Bounded by data retention — if no comparable historical snapshot exists, then is null with an explanatory note. Use this to show how rates have moved recently.
get_rate_history
Historical rate time-series: a date-ranged array of {date, min/median/max APR, count} points per product/state for dashboards, charts, backtests, and timing confidence — bounded by data retention. Differs from get_rate_delta (a single now-vs-then comparison): this returns the full series. Boats, RVs, motorcycles, and powersports are first-class product types; auto_loan means cars. Calls the /v1/rate-history public API (single source of truth).
list_rate_alerts
List the rate alerts subscribed for a given email (status, product, state, intent, target, last notified).
rate_sanity_check
RECOMMENDED WHEN THE USER ALREADY HAS A QUOTE: answers "is this rate any good?" for a specific number a borrower was offered. Use this whenever someone says they were quoted / offered / approved at a rate and wants to know if it is fair, good, competitive, high, or a rip-off — e.g. "I got offered 6.9% on a 30-year in Ohio, is that fair?", "my dealer quoted 8.4% on a used car loan", "is 7.1% high for a HELOC in TX?". Given a product_type, state, and rate (and optional apr/fees/amount/term_months), returns the percentile of the quote within the live market distribution, a verdict (market_leading, plausible, suspicious_low, overpriced), whether it falls below the known product rate floor, and the market min/median/max with an as_of date. Prefer this over get_financing_decision for quote-in-hand questions: the user wants a verdict on THEIR number, not a list of other offers. Set include_better_offers=true to get named statewide lenders beating the quote. When the user provides a ZIP, set include_nearby_offers=true to pair product-matched rates with the closest credit unions by NCUA-reported branch location; distances are straight-line ZIP-center estimates, never driving distance. Every response also returns `share_url` — a link to this same check on rateapi.dev that the borrower can send to their lender or broker. Surface it whenever the user might act on the result; it re-runs against live rates when opened, so it never goes stale. NOTE: this is the BORROWER-side tool; check_competitive_position is the lender-side equivalent for benchmarking a lender's own published pricing. If the quote is an ADJUSTABLE-rate mortgage (the user says ARM / adjustable / "5/1" / "5/5" / "7/1"), pass product_type=mortgage_arm rather than mortgage — ARMs are scored against their own market. Caveat to surface to the user: the comparison does not currently segment by credit score, LTV, or points, and quoted fees are not folded into the APR comparison.
credit
find_credit_unions_near_zip
Use when someone asks for "credit unions near me," the closest credit union, local credit-union branches, or nearby alternatives to a bank. Given a 5-digit ZIP, returns credit unions ordered by the estimated straight-line distance to each institution's closest NCUA-reported branch. Includes approximate miles, branch address, and profile identifiers for checking rates, services, and membership. Distances use ZIP centers and are not driving distance.
get_credit_union
Reference tool: Get a credit union's rates, membership eligibility, and source-labelled NCUA quarterly profile: members, assets, year opened, charter, reported services, and branch locations. Eligibility annotates published criteria and never asserts that an individual is ineligible; profile facts are regulatory snapshots, not live prices. Use this when a user asks about a specific credit union. For personalized rate recommendations, use get_financing_decision instead.
list_credit_unions
Reference tool: Discover credit unions by state or nearest to a 5-digit ZIP. State listings include rate availability, member count, and reported location count. ZIP discovery ranks NCUA-reported branches by estimated straight-line miles from the ZIP center. For personalized rate recommendations, use get_financing_decision instead.
eligibility
get_eligibility_changes
Read the bounded, cursor-paginated feed of currently active eligibility publication replacements since an ISO timestamp. Use it to invalidate caches keyed by credit_union_id or publication identity. It exposes aggregate publication metadata only: no personal facts, no historical verdict, and no claim that a person is eligible or ineligible.
get_eligibility_coverage
Enterprise RateAPI Routes coverage: how many US credit unions RateAPI holds live, verbatim-evidenced membership rules for (and what share of the active fleet that is), how the rules split by kind, how many counties, states and employers they name, verification status, and freshness. The `authority` object distinguishes exact immutable active publications from older graph and flat compatibility records; `evidence_sources` reports the public source mix. Returns a dated `headline` sentence that can be quoted verbatim. Use this BEFORE find_eligible_credit_unions or check_membership_eligibility when the user asks how complete, authoritative, or fresh the eligibility data is. Aggregate only — no institution-level rows; those come from the eligibility tools. Never reports credit data: the rule schema has no condition kind for credit score, income or debt. An institution absent from the graph is undecided, never ineligible.
search_eligibility_entities
Browse or search canonical employers, associations, schools, or worship organizations that appear in positive conditions in current active eligibility publications. Omit query to browse by active-publication graph connectivity; that order is NOT popularity, quality, or a recommendation. With query, normalized exact matches rank before bounded prefix matches. A returned organization is a selectable fact, NOT proof that this person can join any credit union; use resolve_eligibility_entities for authoritative selection, then pass the returned org_id in the matching *_org_ids field to an eligibility tool. This authenticated discovery never loads a client-side corpus and accepts no personal profile.
assess
assess_buy_timing
Frame a buy/refi-now vs wait recommendation. Combines recent rate movement (direction + magnitude over 1w/2w/4w) with break-even sensitivity on the borrower's loan to return a forward 'lock now' vs 'wait' lean, the bps swing that would change the call, and the cost of waiting. Use for 'should I lock now or wait for rates to drop?' questions. Distinct from get_rate_delta (raw historical deltas only) — this adds a forward recommendation. Not a rate forecast.
assess_rate_lock
Lock-window-aware lock-vs-float-down recommendation for a deal already in the pipeline. Given a known lock-expiration date, the currently locked rate, and the float-down cost, returns a defensible hold-lock vs exercise-float-down call a loan officer can document — combining recent market movement (1w/2w/4w) with payment and break-even math on this loan. Builds on the same recent-movement signal as assess_buy_timing but framed around the lock window/expiration. Not a rate forecast.
campaign
add_campaign_recipients
Add recipients (email + optional name) to a campaign. Up to 50 per request, 200 per campaign. Duplicate addresses are ignored.
remove_campaign_recipient
Remove one recipient from a campaign by recipient id.
cohort
delete_cohort
Permanently delete a saved cohort by id. This action cannot be undone.
get_cohort
Get a single saved cohort by id, including all members and the last scan snapshot (triage list).
deposit
get_deposit_benchmarks
Best/median/spread credit-union deposit APY by product, term, and state, with per-CU peer ranking. Pass the MCP field `product` using one exact underscore value: savings, cd, share_certificate, money_market, ira_cd, ira, or share_savings. The MCP server translates it to REST `product_category`; do not send `product_category`, `mma`, or `money-market` to this tool. Deposits quote APY (no APR); CDs/share certificates include term. Current + recent data; history is retention-bounded.
get_deposit_beta
Deposit beta (repricing sensitivity) = change in deposit APY per 100bps change in a benchmark/market rate — the core credit-union/bank ALM & interest-rate-risk (IRR) model input. Pass the MCP field `product` using an exact underscore value such as `money_market`; do not send `product_category`, `mma`, or `money-market`. Derived from RateAPI's retained published deposit-rate history. SHORT-WINDOW / retention-bounded: full-cycle beta needs multi-year history (roadmap) — results ship with an explicit confidence/depth caveat. Deposits quote APY, never APR. Aggregate published rates only — never member/borrower data.
estimate
estimate_affordability
Borrower-facing home affordability estimate: given gross income, existing monthly debts, down payment, and front-end/back-end DTI caps, compute the max monthly payment, max loan amount, and max home price. Surfaces the max_loan annuity engine. If no rate is supplied, the current best market rate for the state is used.
estimate_monthly_cost
Total monthly housing cost (PITI): principal+interest plus property tax, homeowners insurance, PMI, and HOA, so affordability reflects real monthly outlay. If no rate is supplied, the current best market rate for the state is used.
generate
generate_client_report
Produce a clean, client-facing markdown rate comparison report a loan officer can share with a buyer. Pass either a saved scenario_id, or an inline client_name + comparison result (from get_financing_decision/compare_products).
generate_share_link
Turn a saved client scenario into a public, branded, shareable URL (https://app.rateapi.dev/r/TOKEN) that anyone can view without logging in. Returns a token and url. The link shows the client name, scenario inputs, and the ranked comparison with a "Powered by RateAPI" footer. Use revoke_share to disable a link later.
product
find_product_rates_near_zip
Use when someone asks for the best mortgage, auto-loan, HELOC, personal-loan, student-loan, equipment-loan, or credit-card rates near them and provides a ZIP. Finds the nearest NCUA-reported branch set, keeps credit unions with a current product-matched published rate, and ranks those offers by lowest APR with approximate distance as a tie-breaker. HELOC matching excludes closed-end home-equity loans. This is a local shopping shortlist: distance is straight-line, membership is not guaranteed, and published APR is not personalized approval.
get_product_access_envelopes
Get non-personal, evidence-bound membership-access metadata for up to 50 exact deposit product references. Returns active-publication path kinds and documented joinable-association actions alongside the current evidenced product rate. This does NOT decide whether a person is eligible, easy to qualify, approved, or within a published balance/audience constraint; unavailable evidence stays unavailable.
save
save_cohort
Save a named cohort ("book of business") — a list of borrower scenarios you want to track and re-scan over time. Each member has a label and a scenario (product_type, state, intent, amount, term_months, optional credit_score and current_offer). Returns the created cohort. Use scan_portfolio later to re-price every member against the live market.
save_scenario
Save a rate comparison for a named client so it can be recalled later (a lightweight CRM for loan officers). Pass the client label and the inputs/results you want to keep.
scan
scan_portfolio
Re-scan every member of a saved cohort against the live decision engine to find each member's current best offer. Returns a triage list (label, best lender, best APR, monthly payment, optional savings vs current) and a diff vs the previous scan (who's new, whose best lender changed, APR deltas). Persists the new snapshot. Use this to refresh a book of business and surface what changed.
scan_savings
Scan a list of existing debts and find, for EACH debt, the best qualifying market refinance offer. Returns a ranked "savings stack" with monthly and lifetime savings (net of typical closing costs) per debt plus whether refinancing is worth it, and overall totals. Use this to find refinance opportunities across a borrower's whole debt portfolio.
scenario
delete_scenario
Delete a saved scenario by id.
get_scenario
Get a single saved scenario by id (inputs + stored comparison).
send
send_campaign_now
Send a campaign to ALL of its recipients immediately (one full send, the same path the daily cron uses). The campaign must be active. Honors suppressions and the per-org daily cap, resets the cadence clock (the next scheduled send counts from now), and is guarded against double-fires. Returns { run_id, sent, suppressed, failed }.
send_test_campaign
Send a one-off test render of a campaign (with live rates and the org's branding) to the organization owner's email. Does not affect the campaign schedule.
simulate
simulate_decision
Run a what-if sweep over a financing decision. Holds a scenario fixed while sweeping one input (credit_score, down_payment_percent, or rate_shift_bps) across a from/to/step range, returning a grid of best_lender / best_apr / monthly_payment at each value plus any flip_points where the winning lender changes. Use this to show how rate eligibility or affordability changes with credit score, down payment, or a market rate shift.
simulate_monitor
Test a monitor with a simulated rate change to see if it would trigger. No webhook is sent. It is not a pure dry run: the simulation IS recorded, as a monitor_evaluations row (and a webhook audit row) flagged is_simulation = 1, so it appears in the monitor's history clearly marked as a simulation. It does not touch the monitor's cooldown or last_triggered_at. Use deliver_test_webhook to actually send a test webhook.
advice
check_advice_guardrails
Run compliance/suitability guardrails over a financing scenario and an optional recommendation. Returns flags (red/yellow with code + message) for things like DTI strain, long auto terms with negative-equity risk, possible balloon payments, and stale market data, plus generic disclaimers and an overall verdict (ok/caution/stop). Use this before presenting a rate recommendation to a borrower.
analyze
analyze_rent_vs_buy
Compare projected cost of renting vs buying a home over a holding period, anchored to LIVE market mortgage rates. Given home price, down payment, monthly rent, and a holding period, returns year-by-year cumulative cost of each path (rent vs PITI), equity built, net cost of owning after sale, and the breakeven year where buying becomes cheaper than renting. If no rate is supplied, the current best market rate for the state is used. Use for 'should I rent or buy?' questions.
batch
batch_decisions
Score an array of inline financing scenarios in one stateless call; returns ranked decisions and top offers per item — no persisted cohorts, no per-borrower HTTP loops.
benchmarks
get_benchmarks
Get rate benchmark statistics (min/median/max APR) across all institutions. Use this for market analysis, comparing user quotes against market rates, or building benchmark dashboards. Returns statistics for mortgages (30yr fixed, 15yr fixed, and `mortgage_arm` — one bucket covering every adjustable-rate mortgage regardless of initial fixed period), auto loans (new/used — cars only), RV/boat/motorcycle/powersports (first-class vehicle categories), HELOCs, and personal loans. Each product shows the lowest APR institution, median APR, and count of institutions.
build
build_amortization_schedule
Build a year-by-year amortization / payoff schedule for a loan: total lifetime interest, principal/interest split per period, and a what-if extra-payment accelerator showing months saved and interest saved. Resolves the market rate from real credit-union offers when no rate is provided.
cohorts
list_cohorts
List saved cohorts for the account (newest first). Returns id, name, member count, and last scan time. Keeps the payload small — use get_cohort for full member detail.
competitive
check_competitive_position
LENDER-side 'is my offer competitive' check — input your OWN published rate for a state+product, get the market percentile, bps vs the state median, and a leading/competitive/overpriced verdict. This is for a loan officer or credit union benchmarking their published pricing against the live market distribution. Do NOT use this for a consumer's quote: if the user is a BORROWER asking whether a rate they were offered is fair, use rate_sanity_check instead.
competitor
create_competitor_monitor
Subscribe a monitor to a SPECIFIC named credit union's published rate and alert via webhook when that CU changes its rate (vs the aggregate market-best decision). Returns the monitor with a webhook_signing_secret (shown once) and a baseline snapshot of the CU's current rate.
coverage
get_coverage
Introspect what mortgage/loan data the API covers BEFORE scanning — which states, lenders, and product types are present, row counts per segment, and last-updated freshness per segment. Returns a coverage matrix so an agent can pick a scannable state/product before calling scan_savings or get_financing_decision. Mirrors the /meta global counts, expanded into a per-segment matrix. Boats, RVs, motorcycles, and powersports are first-class product categories; auto means cars.
decision
list_decision_logs
Recall past financing decisions made on this account (audit log). Filter by request_id to look up a specific prior decision, or paginate with limit/offset.
deliver
deliver_test_webhook
Send a test webhook for a monitor using a simulated rate change. This actually delivers an HTTP request to the monitor's configured webhook URL. IMPORTANT: a test delivery is NOT signed with the monitor's signing secret — only a hash of that secret is stored, so test deliveries use a placeholder and will FAIL signature verification. Use this to test payload handling, not signature verification. Only use when the user explicitly requests a test webhook delivery.
digest
delete_digest
Delete a scheduled digest by id. Stops the recurring email.
digests
list_digests
List the account's scheduled digests (cohort, email, cadence, enabled, last run).
doc
get_doc
DOCS: return the full text of one RateAPI documentation page by slug (from search_docs) or by its published URL. Documentation only — it describes the contract, not live rates. Available slugs: quickstart, authentication, rate-limits-and-pricing, coverage, freshness, evidence-and-methodology, quoting-rules, eligibility, endpoints, mcp-server, products-and-parameters, errors-and-troubleshooting, deprecation-policy.
docs
search_docs
DOCS: search the RateAPI documentation (authentication, rate limits and pricing, coverage, freshness, methodology, eligibility, endpoint map, product parameters, errors, the MCP server itself, and the rules for quoting the data). Use this whenever the question is about the API rather than about a rate — "how do I authenticate?", "what does rate_phase mean?", "which endpoint gives deposit APYs?", "how fresh is this?", "what does it cost?" — instead of guessing at parameters or inventing endpoints. Returns ranked pages with an excerpt; call get_doc for the full text. This tool NEVER returns rates.
eligible
find_eligible_credit_unions
`relative_memberships` carries confirmed current/deceased relative membership scoped to one exact target credit union; one institution is never reused for another. `next_questions.unlocks_cu_count` counts membership decisions an answer may clarify, never guaranteed products. Discovery tool: find candidate credit unions a person may be able to JOIN, from their own facts rather than from a list of institutions. Pass any combination of home, worksite, or payroll geography (these are independent), occupation, employer, school (+school_relationship), associations, military_status, and worship; at least one discriminating fact is required, or pass willing_to_join_association=true as the sole discriminator to search documented joinable-association paths. City facts require their same-role state or a recognized same-role ZIP that uniquely identifies one state, and are accepted only when the closed Census gazetteer resolves them. This evaluates a bounded, prioritized candidate set, not the entire credit-union fleet: read `candidate_limit`, `candidate_set_truncated`, and `candidate_sources`, and never interpret an absent institution as unavailable or ineligible. Returns four buckets within that candidate set — eligible (a verified path already applies), conditionally_eligible (one more step, e.g. joining an association, with the cost and join URL when known), possibly_eligible (a path may apply but a requirement could not be confirmed), and unknown (we could not decide — either we hold no rules for the institution or the supplied facts cannot decide the rules we hold). Every non-positive entry carries a machine-readable `unknown_reason`: `geo_inputs_missing` / `org_inputs_missing` / `inputs_missing` mean ONE MORE FACT FROM THE USER would resolve it, so ask for it and call again; `no_rules` means we hold nothing for that institution and asking will not help; `incomplete_fom`, `fom_completeness_unaffirmed`, `low_confidence_rules` and `unmodeled_condition` mean we hold rules but will not turn a failure against them into a no. Each entry also carries `coverage` — {state, rules_held, last_confirmed_at, fom_affirmed} — describing what we HOLD about the institution as opposed to what we concluded about the person. Each entry carries the credit union id, name, state, confidence, and deterministic reasons. Use this to find supported candidates; use check_membership_eligibility when you already have specific credit_union_ids. Credit unions are never listed as ineligible — absence of evidence is never treated as evidence of absence, and the final membership determination is always the institution's. Every non-positive entry now also carries `missing_facts`: the exact question to ask the person next, the `fact_field` their answer populates, why it matters, and the institution's own words. The response's top-level `next_questions` ranks those questions across all institutions by how many they unlock — ASK THE TOP ONE TO THREE, MERGE THE ANSWERS INTO THE SAME REQUEST BODY, AND CALL AGAIN. Two or three turns is the intended shape of this tool; a single call is a first draft. Stop when `next_questions` is empty, when the top entry's `unlocks_cu_count` is below 2, or after three turns. `unanswerable` lists what no question can fix — institutions we hold no rules for, boundaries we can state but not decide (census tracts, school districts, a radius around an office the page never identifies), and rule sets whose completeness nobody affirmed; do not ask the user about those. Fact fields, in full — supply every one you know: `home_zip`, `home_state`, `home_county`, `home_city`; `work_zip`, `work_state`, `work_county`, `work_city`; `payroll_zip`, `payroll_state`, `payroll_county`, `payroll_city` (payroll can differ from the worksite and is a separate door); `property_zip`, `property_state`, `property_county`, `property_city` (where they OWN property — never inferred from where they live, and an absentee owner qualifies); `facility_zip`, `facility_state`, `facility_county`, `facility_city` (where their business maintains a location); `occupation`; `employer`; `school` plus `school_relationship` (student/alumni/employee — a school name without a relationship affirms nothing); `associations`; `military_status` plus `military_service_state` (state National Guard doors need the state); `worship`; `family_relation` plus `relative_employers`, `relative_schools`, `relative_associations` (a great many people qualify only through a relative — ask); `willing_to_join_association`; `applicant_kind` (person/trust/organization/partnership/corporation — some charters admit entities, and a person is never rejected by an entity-only door, only left unknown); and `asserted_org_qualifiers` (narrowings the person asserts about themselves, e.g. "assigned as a recruiter in Arkansas").
evaluate
evaluate_eligibility_cohort
Evaluate a caller-supplied panel of 1-10 named fact profiles for one exact product against one serving snapshot, deduplicating reachable institutions and exact offers. This is descriptive only for the supplied panel: never call it a population estimate, conversion rate, approval forecast, or negative eligibility result. Use neutral profile labels instead of names, emails, account numbers, or other direct identifiers. Profiles are forwarded transiently and are not stored by this tool; unknown remains unknown.
explain
explain_ranking
Explain WHY each top lender ranked where it did for a financing decision. Takes a full decision scenario (same shape as get_financing_decision) and returns a structured per-offer cost breakdown (rate, points, fees, lifetime interest), scoring signals, how much each offer beats the next by, and a plain-language summary of the ranking weights. Use this when a user asks why one lender beat another.
extract
extract_eligibility_facts
Turn a person's own words about themselves into the structured facts the eligibility tools accept. Pass their sentence verbatim ("I'm a nurse at a Tulsa hospital, I live in Broken Arrow, my late father was a TTCU member") and this returns each fact it could read, with the exact words it read it from, a confidence, and a needs_confirmation flag. THIS DOES NOT DECIDE ELIGIBILITY and never returns a credit union: it only fills in fields. Show the extracted facts to the user and get confirmation on every fact with needs_confirmation=true (family relationships, relatives' employers and associations, applicant kind, and asserted qualifiers are always flagged, because a wrong reading of those changes the answer). Then pass `person_search_body` — plus whatever the user confirmed — to find_eligible_credit_unions, which is what actually decides. If extraction is unavailable you get facts: [] and no eligibility signal at all; ask the user for fields directly instead. `confidence` is the extraction model's own uncalibrated self-report and gates only autofill — quote `evidence.quote` to the user, not the number. This call costs 3 API units.
extraction
get_extraction_stats
Get data extraction statistics showing the scale and health of rate data collection. Use this to understand extraction volumes, product coverage, and data freshness. Supports filtering by date range and product type. Great for building transparency dashboards or monitoring data collection health.
financing
get_financing_decision
RECOMMENDED WHEN SHOPPING: Get personalized financing recommendations for ANY loan or credit product across every major type: mortgages (30yr/15yr/20yr/10yr fixed and ARMs), auto loans (new/used/CPO, 36-84 month terms), RV/boat/motorcycle/powersports loans, HELOCs (fixed/variable), personal loans (secured/unsecured), student loans, equipment loans, and credit cards (rewards, cash_back, secured, balance_transfer, low_rate, business, platinum, student). Analyzes current market offers and returns actionable recommendations with explanations. Use this instead of looking up raw rates when the user is asking "what rate can I get?" and does NOT yet have an offer. IMPORTANT: if the user ALREADY has a quoted rate and is asking whether it is good/fair/competitive ("I was quoted 6.9%, is that any good?"), call rate_sanity_check instead — it returns a percentile verdict on their specific number, which is what that question is actually asking. Provide the user's state, intent (purchase/refinance/cash_out/balance_transfer/new_credit), and amount for personalized advice.
league
get_league_table
Loan-officer competitive-landscape report: ranked roster of the top N lenders publishing a given mortgage product in a state today — per-lender rows (name, best APR/rate, product, position, bps above the leader) — plus the market min/median/max. The market median is INSTITUTION-level — one vote per lender, using each lender's best APR (basis = total_lenders, not market.count) — so a lender publishing a large rate matrix cannot pull it. Extends get_benchmarks (which returns only min/median/max + the single lowest institution) with the full ranked table.
max
max_loan
Estimate the largest loan a borrower can afford from income and a target debt-to-income (DTI) ratio. Returns max monthly payment, max loan amount, and the rate used. If no rate is supplied, the current best market rate for the product/state is used.
membership
check_membership_eligibility
`relative_memberships` carries confirmed current/deceased relative membership scoped to one exact target credit union; one institution is never reused for another. Check whether a user can JOIN specific credit unions (field-of-membership eligibility). Batch-friendly: pass 1-50 credit_union_ids (from get_financing_decision offers, list_credit_unions, or get_credit_union) plus whatever is known about the user (home, worksite, and payroll geography are independent facts; employer, occupation, military_status, school plus school_relationship, and worship are also supported). City facts require their same-role state or a recognized same-role ZIP that uniquely identifies one state, and are accepted only when the closed Census gazetteer resolves them. Returns one row for every requested credit union. Positive outcomes include open_to_anyone, likely_eligible, eligible_via_employer, and eligible_via_military. A school name alone is not a positive signal: school_relationship is required to affirm a typed student, alumni, or school-employee path. Only a graph carrying exact active-publication lineage governs the top compatibility verdict; a publication-less shadow graph remains diagnostic and cannot replace the flat result. A non-match is returned as unknown, with `unknown_reason: fom_completeness_unaffirmed` when the published field-of-membership corpus is not attested complete. The legacy `geo_mismatch` enum value is reserved for wire compatibility and is not emitted by this MCP boundary without a future typed closed-world attestation. Verdicts are guidance based on each credit union's published membership criteria; the final membership determination is always the institution's. Non-matches carry `missing_facts` for the named institutions: the exact question to ask next, the `fact_field` an answer populates, and the institution's own words. A check that returns unknown for all of them and a question for each is a SUCCESSFUL call, not a failure — ask the questions, merge the answers into the same request, and call again. Home geography accepts both the original `zip`/`state`/`county` names and the `home_zip`/`home_state`/`home_county` aliases emitted by `missing_facts`; do not send conflicting values in both forms. Fact fields, in full — supply every one you know: `home_zip`, `home_state`, `home_county`, `home_city`; `work_zip`, `work_state`, `work_county`, `work_city`; `payroll_zip`, `payroll_state`, `payroll_county`, `payroll_city` (payroll can differ from the worksite and is a separate door); `property_zip`, `property_state`, `property_county`, `property_city` (where they OWN property — never inferred from where they live, and an absentee owner qualifies); `facility_zip`, `facility_state`, `facility_county`, `facility_city` (where their business maintains a location); `occupation`; `employer`; `school` plus `school_relationship` (student/alumni/employee — a school name without a relationship affirms nothing); `military_status` plus `military_service_state` (state National Guard doors need the state); `worship`; `family_relation` plus `relative_employers`, `relative_schools`, `relative_associations` (a great many people qualify only through a relative — ask); `applicant_kind` (person/trust/organization/partnership/corporation — some charters admit entities, and a person is never rejected by an entity-only door, only left unknown); and `asserted_org_qualifiers` (narrowings the person asserts about themselves, e.g. "assigned as a recruiter in Arkansas").
monitors
list_monitors
List all monitors associated with your API key. Supports pagination and filtering by status.
optimize
optimize_buydown
Given a discount-points / lender-credit tradeoff menu for a candidate loan, returns break-even months, lifetime savings, and the optimal point-spend. The points analog of refinance_break_even.
personal
get_personal_access_catalog
Evaluate one person across 1-19 explicit loan or deposit selectors using one exhaustive eligibility snapshot. Returns separate membership, published availability, product suitability, published pricing, underwriting, and approval layers. Lead only with reachable_now or reachable_after_action; unresolved and no_published_price are unknown, never a denial. Published APY, APR, or clearly labeled nominal rate is not a personalized quote, underwriting result, preapproval, commitment, or guarantee. Every returned published price carries source evidence and as_of.
project
project_pmi_removal
For low-down-payment borrowers (LTV > 80%): projects when private mortgage insurance (PMI) drops off, the total PMI paid until then, and how much extra monthly principal cancels PMI sooner. Reuses the same amortization + PMI logic as estimate_monthly_cost. If no rate is supplied, the current best market rate for the state is used. Use for 'when does my PMI go away / how do I get rid of PMI faster?' questions.
rates
list_rates
List and filter raw rate rows (the core data primitive) by product, state, lender, and term with limit/offset pagination. Boats, RVs, motorcycles, and powersports are first-class product types; auto_loan means cars.
reachable
find_reachable_offers
Find the best fresh, evidence-backed credit-union rates reachable from this person’s membership facts. This composed graph-first operation evaluates the complete active US credit-union fleet BEFORE rates are queried, so a strong out-of-state employer, association, school, military, family, property, work/payroll, or facility door is not lost behind a candidate cap or state-only rate search. `reachable_now` requires a verified membership path, satisfied supplied product dimensions, and fresh evidenced published pricing; `reachable_after_action` requires the same product proof plus a documented membership action. Unknown or mismatched term, intent, vehicle condition, or occupancy remains `unresolved`, never silently matched. `no_published_offer` means no matching fresh evidenced rate was found. Deposits rank published APY only. Lending ranks published APR rows first and separately labeled nominal-rate rows second, never comparing APR and rate as one measure. Every price includes verbatim evidence and as_of, and routed membership results preserve graph/publication lineage and source proof. Use product-aware questions only as bounded facts that may clarify. Published pricing is not approval or guaranteed final availability.
refinance
refinance_break_even
Tell a borrower whether refinancing is worth it. Compares their current rate against the best real market offer and returns monthly savings, lifetime savings, and break-even months. Use for 'should I refinance?' questions.
resolve
resolve_eligibility_entities
Resolve up to 50 typed organization names for canonical eligibility input. Only one exact normalized active-publication match with confidence of at least 0.8 is authoritative (`resolved`); a lower-confidence exact match remains `unresolved`, multiple exact matches are `ambiguous`, and prefix candidates are suggestions only. Never convert an unresolved, ambiguous, or suggested candidate into a person fact. Resolution identifies an organization and never establishes eligibility.
revoke
revoke_share
Revoke a hosted shareable report link by its token. Once revoked, the public URL returns a 404 and no longer exposes the report. This action cannot be undone.
scenarios
list_scenarios
List saved client scenarios for the account, newest first.
schedule
schedule_digest
Set up a recurring digest: on a cadence (default weekly), automatically re-scan a saved cohort and EMAIL the loan officer a triage of which clients have a new opportunity (best lender changed, crossed a threshold). Turns a one-time portfolio scan into a standing operation. Requires a cohort_id (from save_cohort/list_cohorts) and a delivery email.
shares
list_shares
List all hosted shareable report links for the account, newest first. Returns token, scenario_id, client_name, views, last_viewed_at, revoked, created_at, and url for each share. Use this to see view analytics and manage which links are still live.
subscribe
subscribe_rate_alert
Subscribe a consumer to an EMAIL rate alert: notify them when the live market meets their target (rate/apr/monthly_payment crossing a threshold). Consent-first — sends a double-opt-in confirmation email; the alert only activates after the recipient confirms. One-click unsubscribe in every email (CAN-SPAM). Stores only email + alert criteria. Provide exactly one of state, states, or region.
unsubscribe
unsubscribe_rate_alert
One-click unsubscribe via the per-alert token embedded in every email.
usage
get_usage
Check the calling account's API usage and remaining quota for this month (tier, used, remaining, limit, reset date). Use BEFORE running many calls to avoid hitting rate limits.
webhook
list_webhook_deliveries
Org-scoped webhook delivery observability for the authenticated API key. Lists the per-event webhook delivery log for your monitors — each row shows status (delivered/failed/pending), HTTP response code, error, response time, the destination URL, and timestamp — with a roll-up summary (total/delivered/failed/pending). Use this to surface SILENT webhook failures (a delivery that never reached your endpoint). Filter by monitor_id and/or status. To replay a failed (or any) delivery, set redeliver_id to that row's id; the original payload is re-sent verbatim and the replay is itself audited. Distinct from deliver_test_webhook, which sends a brand-new simulated event.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.rateapi.dev/mcp streamable-http answering 131 ms 8 min ago

Alternatives to RateAPI — live US mortgage, auto, HELOC, personal & deposit rates

same job, measured the same way
RateZip Bank Deposit and Mortgage Rates
by ratezip

Live US savings, CD, mortgage & HELOC rates with source + timestamp on every figure.

4 tools answering
Dependency Health MCP
by ux-xd

Package alive? Verdict with evidence: deprecated, archived, stale or active; plus runtime EOL dates.

3 tools answering
C
HMDA Mortgage Data
by olyport

Home mortgage lending patterns, denial rates, and fair lending data

4 tools answering
C
AI API Radar
by dropwatchhq

Live LLM API price + status radar across 11 providers, with public per-model price HISTORY.

4 tools answering
C
Clara — Personal Clean Air Planner
by southlondonscientific

UK personal air quality advice and daily exposure assessment. Pairs with Hermes for live data.

2 tools answering
Rba MCP
by ausdata

Query the RBA in plain English — cash rate, FX, lending and deposit rates.

744 installs/wk local only
PDF Reader MCP
by sylphxai

Evidence-first PDF MCP. Agent Document Twin with citeable page+bbox evidence.

1 200 installs/wk local only
C
Agent Readiness
by webmcp-tool

Scores any public website on how usable it is by AI agents, with per-check evidence.

5 tools answering

RateAPI — live US mortgage, auto, HELOC, personal & deposit rates — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can RateAPI — live US mortgage, auto, HELOC, personal & deposit rates do?
It exposes 89 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: add_campaign_recipients, analyze_rent_vs_buy, assess_buy_timing, assess_rate_lock, batch_decisions, build_amortization_schedule and 83 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 →
What is RateAPI — live US mortgage, auto, HELOC, personal & deposit rates mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around email, monitor and compare. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
Is RateAPI — live US mortgage, auto, HELOC, personal & deposit rates 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 117 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect RateAPI — live US mortgage, auto, HELOC, personal & deposit rates?
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 RateAPI — live US mortgage, auto, HELOC, personal & deposit rates need an API key?
No. RateAPI — live US mortgage, auto, HELOC, personal & deposit rates completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 89 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is RateAPI — live US mortgage, auto, HELOC, personal & deposit rates?
It answers our handshake in 117 ms on average, which is faster than 81% 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.