Vetted Consumer MCP Server

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Vetted Consumer is answering right now. Last checked 13 min ago. It exposes 9 tools.

Will a local LLM run on your hardware? GGUF quant, buy-vs-rent-vs-API cost, used-GPU prices.

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 93%

91 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

607 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Vetted Consumer missed one check this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 13 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add vetted-consumer --transport http https://vettedconsumer.com/mcp

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

https://vettedconsumer.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.vetted-consumer]
url = "https://vettedconsumer.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vetted-consumer": {
      "url": "https://vettedconsumer.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "vetted-consumer": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://vettedconsumer.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 9

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

recommend

recommend_hardware

Ranked list of catalogued, buyable machines that run a model at the requested context, cheapest first, with an optional budget cap.

recommend_quant

Which GGUF quantization to download for a model on given hardware: the full quant ladder with file size, max context, and tok/s for each, plus the recommended pick.

can

can_i_run_it

Will a given local LLM run on given hardware? Returns fit, the best quant that fits, theoretical tok/s, and real owner-measured tok/s where available.

cheapest

cheapest_hardware_for_model

The cheapest catalogued, buyable machine that runs a given model at Q4 with the requested context.

compare

compare_hardware

Side-by-side memory, bandwidth, price, and (with a model) fit + tok/s for 2 to 4 machines.

cost

cost_compare

Buy vs rent vs API cost to run a model locally: monthly/1y/3y totals, break-even months, and the energy cost per 1M tokens. Same math as /cost-calculator/.

hardware

list_hardware

List the machines the tools know about (memory, bandwidth, price, buy link).

models

list_models

List the local LLM model classes the tools know about (params, dense/MoE, native context).

used

get_used_gpu_prices

Current typical used-GPU prices for local-AI rigs (eBay Browse API median asking + hand-verified, monthly).

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://vettedconsumer.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	591 ms	13 min ago

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Vetted Consumer — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Vetted Consumer do?

It exposes 9 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: can_i_run_it, cheapest_hardware_for_model, compare_hardware, cost_compare, get_used_gpu_prices, list_hardware and 3 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 Vetted Consumer 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 607 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Vetted Consumer?

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 Vetted Consumer need an API key?

No. Vetted Consumer completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 9 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Vetted Consumer?

It answers our handshake in 607 ms on average, which is faster than 18% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.