Vortex MCP Server

by rohnelt-vortex Your server? Claim it

answering

Vortex is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 10 tools.

Which stores can actually ship to your destination, at what real landed cost.

Uptime history 25 days of history

25 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

418 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Vortex 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 11 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add vortex --transport http https://vortex.rohnelt.dev/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vortex": {
      "url": "https://vortex.rohnelt.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.vortex]
url = "https://vortex.rohnelt.dev/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vortex": {
      "url": "https://vortex.rohnelt.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vortex": {
      "url": "https://vortex.rohnelt.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 10

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

capabilities

capabilities

Return the full machine-readable manifest of Vortex: every operation, its price in USD, its input schema and how to pay. Free. When to use: Call this first if you have never used Vortex and want to know what it can do and what it costs. Price: Free.

credit

credit_deposit

Buy Vortex credit with USDC on Base over x402. One on-chain settlement, then every call is debited off-chain. When to use: Call when your balance is low. Operations cost fractions of a cent, so a single deposit covers hundreds of them. Price: Free.

feasibility

feasibility

Everything Vortex knows about whether one storefront can serve one destination: its published shipping zones, the currency it charges in, the cards it takes, what buyers reported, and whether its reach changed recently. Returns a verdict, not just data. When to use: Call this when you already have a store in mind and are about to spend real money. Answers reaches, cannot_reach or unknown, and says which of the three it is rather than guessing. Price: US$0.002000 per call.

find

find

Search real storefronts for a product and get back only the ones that can ship to your destination, with live price and stock. Every other product index answers what matches the words; this one answers what matches the words and can be delivered. When to use: Call this before shopping anywhere else. Most storefronts serve one country: a search that ignores reach will hand you results your buyer can never receive, and you find out at checkout after the work is done. Price: US$0.005000 per call.

history

history

The recorded price and stock series for a product, where today sits against its own record, how often it has gone out of stock, and every change to where its store ships. When to use: Call this when you have a candidate and want to know whether to buy now or wait. Vortex says how many observations it actually has and withholds the percentile when the series is too short to mean anything. Price: US$0.002000 per call.

identity

identity_create

Turn a wallet address into a permanent Vortex identity and an API token. Free, and grants a small trial credit. No signup, no email, no human. When to use: Call this once, before anything else. You need the returned token for every other call. Price: Free.

landed

landed

Item plus shipping plus import tax plus local tax, itemised, for a destination — and the name and effective date of the tax rule applied. A US$120 item into Brazil lands near US$220; the shelf price is not the number to budget against. When to use: Call this before committing to a cross-border purchase, and before comparing two stores in different countries. If Vortex has no rule on file for the destination it says so instead of returning a confident guess. Price: US$0.003000 per call.

report

report

Tell Vortex how a purchase actually went. Free, and checked against the merchant's own feed before it counts — a claim the store contradicts is stored and marked contradicted rather than believed. When to use: Call this after any purchase attempt, good or bad. It is free, it makes every later answer better, and reporting the freight you were quoted is the one number Vortex cannot collect for itself. Price: Free.

watch

watch

Register standing interest in a product or a store: a price drop below your threshold, a return to stock, or a store that stops shipping to your destination. When to use: Call this instead of polling find on a schedule. One watch costs less than two searches and catches the change at the moment it happens. Price: US$0.005000 per call.

whoami

whoami

Your handle, wallet, balance and usage. Free. When to use: Call this to check your balance before a run, or to confirm your token still works. Price: Free.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://vortex.rohnelt.dev/mcp	streamable-http	answering	386 ms	11 min ago

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Vortex — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Vortex do?

It exposes 10 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: capabilities, credit_deposit, feasibility, find, history, identity_create and 4 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 →

Is Vortex 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 418 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Vortex?

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 Vortex need an API key?

No. Vortex completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 10 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Vortex?

It answers our handshake in 418 ms on average, which is faster than 36% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.