Budgetary: estimate token spend is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. 79 installs a week from npm. It exposes 1 tools. Last commit 18 Aug 2026.
Pre-flight token-spend estimate (range, scenario, confidence) for a coding task, or an abstention.
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check Budgetary: estimate token spend every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 10 min ago.
claude mcp add budgetary --transport http https://api.budgetary.tools/mcphttps://api.budgetary.tools/mcp[mcp_servers.budgetary]
url = "https://api.budgetary.tools/mcp"{
"mcpServers": {
"budgetary": {
"url": "https://api.budgetary.tools/mcp"
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"budgetary": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://api.budgetary.tools/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 1
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
estimate
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://api.budgetary.tools/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 394 ms | 10 min ago |
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