NZ Open Banking (Akahu) MCP Server

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NZ Open Banking (Akahu) runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 5 416 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 2 Nov 2026.

Ask about your NZ bank accounts via Akahu open finance. Read-only by default, consent per write.

Installs per day peak 5 416 · avg 180

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2 Nov 2026

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Apache-2.0

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Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check NZ Open Banking (Akahu) 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

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add nz-openbank-mcp -e 'AKAHU_USER_TOKEN=<AKAHU_USER_TOKEN>' -e 'AKAHU_APP_TOKEN=<AKAHU_APP_TOKEN>' -- uvx nz-openbank-mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nz-openbank-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "nz-openbank-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AKAHU_APP_TOKEN": "<AKAHU_APP_TOKEN>",
        "AKAHU_USER_TOKEN": "<AKAHU_USER_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.nz-openbank-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["nz-openbank-mcp"]
env = { AKAHU_USER_TOKEN = "<AKAHU_USER_TOKEN>", AKAHU_APP_TOKEN = "<AKAHU_APP_TOKEN>" }

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nz-openbank-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "nz-openbank-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AKAHU_APP_TOKEN": "<AKAHU_APP_TOKEN>",
        "AKAHU_USER_TOKEN": "<AKAHU_USER_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "nz-openbank-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "nz-openbank-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AKAHU_APP_TOKEN": "<AKAHU_APP_TOKEN>",
        "AKAHU_USER_TOKEN": "<AKAHU_USER_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Put your own values in place of <AKAHU_USER_TOKEN> (User token from https://my.akahu.nz/developers), <AKAHU_APP_TOKEN> (App token from https://my.akahu.nz/developers). The author’s registry entry marks them as required.

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: AKAHU_READ_ONLY (Refuse all write tools when 'true'. Leave as 'true' unless you specifically need refresh/verify/report writes), AKAHU_AUTOMATION_BYPASS (Skip per-call consent prompts for safe-to-automate writes (account refresh only). Requires read-only=false).

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NZ Open Banking (Akahu) — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for NZ Open Banking (Akahu)?

NZ Open Banking (Akahu) runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package nz-openbank-mcp was installed 5 416 times last week.

How do I connect NZ Open Banking (Akahu)?

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 runs locally, so the command pulls nz-openbank-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use NZ Open Banking (Akahu)?

The pypi package nz-openbank-mcp was installed 5 416 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is NZ Open Banking (Akahu) open source?

Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in Python and 1 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.