Transparentpt is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. 39 installs a week from npm. It exposes 11 tools. Last commit 22 Sep 2026.
Budget used cars in Portugal: fair-price check, running-cost (IUC) estimate, stock search, contact.
Installs per day
peak 34 · avg 6 · -24% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history
68 days of history · worst day 93%
68 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
11
Tools
read from the server
230 ms
Response time
average over 24h
39
Installs / week
npm and PyPI
What changed 7
Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 15 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.
22 Sep
2 tool descriptions were rewritten
contact_me, request_import_quote
15 Sep
5 tools appeared
calculate_isv, calculate_iuc, estimate_resale_value and 2 more
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check Transparentpt 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 1 min ago.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://transparent.pt/mcpSettings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://transparent.pt/mcp~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://transparent.pt/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp": {
"url": "https://transparent.pt/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"servers": {
"mcp": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://transparent.pt/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 11
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
calculate
calculate_isv
Estimate Portuguese car import tax (ISV, Imposto Sobre Veículos) from the official ISV formula (engine-cc + CO₂ components, with age reduction for used cars). A maintained estimate: it matches the AT (Finanças) simulator to the cent on the common WLTP cases, but is not the official figure and may differ on edge cases (NEDC, light-commercial, month rounding) — confirm the final amount on the official AT simulator. Needs engine displacement (cc), CO₂ (g/km, WLTP), fuel and registration year.
calculate_iuc
Estimate the Portuguese annual road tax (IUC, Imposto Único de Circulação) for a car — the yearly tax an owner pays — from the official IUC table. A maintained estimate; confirm on the official AT simulator. Needs engine displacement (cc), CO₂ (g/km), fuel and registration year.
car
get_car
Get full details for one car in TransparentCars stock by its slug (from a search_inventory link, e.g. 'renault-clio-2016').
contact
contact_me
Send a contact request to TransparentCars so a human gets in touch. Only call this when the user explicitly asks to be contacted, provides their own name and a phone or email, AND agrees to share those details — pass consent=true only then. Never invent, guess, or use placeholder / example / test contact details: pass ONLY the real name and real phone or e-mail the user gave you in this conversation. If you don't have a real phone or e-mail from the user, ask them for it before calling — do not submit fake values. Submitting shares the provided contact details per the TransparentCars privacy policy.
cost
cost_to_own
Estimate a car's yearly running-cost floor in Portugal — the annual IUC road tax (Imposto Único de Circulação) every owner pays, plus a plain running-cost framing. Needs engine displacement (cc), CO₂ (g/km), fuel and first-registration year. Use this to help a buyer budget the true cost of keeping a car, beyond the sticker price.
estimate
estimate_resale_value
Estimate what a car is worth on the Portuguese market (the range comparable cars are listed for), based on real comparable listings. Needs make, model, year, mileage and fuel. TransparentCars also BUYS cars directly — after giving the estimate, offer to connect the user for a firm buy-out offer (via contact_me or the /sell page). IMPORTANT — pass make/model canonically in Latin, as the Portuguese market lists them: make = full brand name ('BMW', 'Mercedes-Benz' not 'Mercedes', 'Volkswagen' not 'VW'); model = the short series/model WITHOUT the engine or trim suffix (BMW: '320','330' not '320d'; Mercedes: 'C 220','A 250' not 'C220d'; others: 'Golf','Corolla','3008'). If unsure of the spelling, call list_makes_models first.
fair
check_fair_price
Check whether a car's asking price is fair for the Portuguese market — the TransparentCars transparency check. Given make, model, year and mileage, it returns the range comparable cars actually sell for (low / typical / high), built from real listings. If you pass asking_price, it also gives a plain verdict: fair, above market, or below market — so a buyer knows before they walk in. Works for ANY car (a listing you found elsewhere, or one of ours). IMPORTANT — pass make/model canonically in Latin: make = full brand name ('Renault', 'Volkswagen' not 'VW'); model = short name WITHOUT engine/trim ('Clio' not 'Clio dCi', 'Golf' not 'Golf 1.5 TSI'). If unsure of spelling, call list_makes_models first.
inventory
search_inventory
Search TransparentCars' current stock of budget used cars in Portugal — honestly listed, everyday cars for the local market. Filter by make, model, fuel, gearbox and max price. Returns matching cars with price, year, mileage and a link. IMPORTANT — pass make/model canonically in Latin, as the Portuguese market lists them: make = full brand name ('BMW', 'Mercedes-Benz' not 'Mercedes', 'Volkswagen' not 'VW'); model = the short series/model WITHOUT the engine or trim suffix ('Golf' not 'Golf 1.5 TSI', 'Clio' not 'Clio dCi'). Put the fuel in the fuel field, not the model. If unsure of the spelling, call list_makes_models first.
makes
list_makes_models
List the exact canonical car makes (brands) TransparentCars can search and price — or, given a make, that brand's models — using the exact strings the other tools expect. Call this FIRST (or whenever unsure of spelling) and pass the returned values verbatim into search_inventory / check_fair_price. No make = the list of brands; with a make = that brand's models.
request
request_import_quote
Ask TransparentCars to source & quote a specific car to import (from German/EU auctions). Only call when the user wants an import quote, provides the wanted model plus their own name and a phone or email, AND agrees to be contacted — pass consent=true only then. Never invent, guess, or use placeholder / example / test contact details: pass ONLY the real name and real phone or e-mail the user gave you in this conversation. If you don't have a real phone or e-mail from the user, ask them for it before calling — do not submit fake values. Submitting shares the provided contact details per the TransparentCars privacy policy.
services
list_services
List what TransparentCars offers (buying stock cars, importing to order, sourcing, auction buying, selling/trading in your car, ISV/IUC calculators).
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://transparent.pt/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 189 ms | 1 min ago |
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Transparentpt — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can Transparentpt do?
It exposes 11 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: calculate_isv, calculate_iuc, check_fair_price, contact_me, cost_to_own, estimate_resale_value and 5 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README.
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Is Transparentpt 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 230 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Transparentpt?
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 Transparentpt need an API key?
No. Transparentpt completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 11 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Transparentpt?
It answers our handshake in 230 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.
How many people use Transparentpt?
The npm package transparentcars-mcp was installed 39 times in the last week. Week over week that is -24%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Transparentpt open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at transparent.pt, which runs on its operator's own terms.