Per Diem MCP Server

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Per Diem is answering right now. Last checked 12 min ago. It exposes 9 tools. Last commit 9 Sep 2026.

Daily travel allowances from bundled public rate tables: Poland, HMRC and GSA CONUS.

Uptime history 5 days of history

5 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

237 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 9 Sep 2026

What changed 9

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 9 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

10 Sep 4 tool descriptions were rewritten license_activate, trip_delete, trip_export and 1 more

9 Sep 3 tool descriptions were rewritten4 times that day license_activate, license_status, perdiem_report

9 Sep a tool changed the parameters it asks for license_activate

and 1 more, back to 9 September 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Per Diem 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 12 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add per-diem --transport http https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/per-diem

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "per-diem": {
      "url": "https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/per-diem"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.per-diem]
url = "https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/per-diem"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "per-diem": {
      "url": "https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/per-diem"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "per-diem": {
      "url": "https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/per-diem"
    }
  }
}

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.

trip

trip_delete

Delete one saved trip and free the free-tier slot it held that month. A trip that has been exported or has an expense booked against it is refused with the blocker named, and nothing is written. Free and unlimited.

trip_export

Return the exact expense_add arguments for a saved trip: one payload for subsistence and, with split_lodging, one for lodging. It writes nothing in the expense-tracker server; only mark_exported changes this trip. Pro.

trip_list

List saved trips with the scheme, destination, dates and total on each, and a total per currency. Filter by scheme, destination, traveller, project and start date range. Free and unlimited.

trip_record

Calculate a trip and save it under a name, traveller taken from the shared business profile; returns the TRIP-YYYY-NNNN id. An identical record is refused and named, spending no slot. Free: 5 trips a calendar month.

perdiem

perdiem_calc

Calculate the daily travel allowance for one trip: the amount per day and the total in the scheme's currency, with the partial-day fraction and the meal deductions the scheme's own rule applies. Free and unlimited.

perdiem_rates

List a scheme's bundled daily allowance rates with the authority, instrument, source URL and effective date they came from. Filter by country or city. Free and unlimited.

perdiem_report

Total saved trips per scheme and calendar month, bucketed by start date: trips, days, subsistence and lodging, each in the scheme's own currency, with the trip ids behind every figure. Pro.

license

license_activate

Turn Pro on for this connection with key, an MCPL1.<payload>.<signature> issued at checkout for this server or the bundle. Data under your token stays; a wrong or expired key changes nothing. license_status confirms it.

license_status

Report this endpoint's licence state for your token as JSON: the product, the tier free or pro, why it is not Pro, and the checkout URL. Call it to explain a free-tier refusal. No arguments, nothing changes.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/per-diem	streamable-http	answering	207 ms	12 min ago

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Per Diem — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Per Diem do?

It exposes 9 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: license_activate, license_status, perdiem_calc, perdiem_rates, perdiem_report, trip_delete 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 →

What is Per Diem mostly used for?

Its tools cluster around trip, perdiem and license. 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 Per Diem 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 237 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Per Diem?

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 Per Diem need an API key?

No. Per Diem 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 Per Diem?

It answers our handshake in 237 ms on average, which is faster than 62% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Per Diem open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript and 0 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.