About PuraSIM travel eSIM
PuraSIM travel eSIM is a remote MCP server for comparing prepaid data plans across 187 countries and territories. It serves travelers and trip planners with plan recommendations, coverage and network details, and purchase links; it is read-only and needs no account.
Key features
- 01Recommend plans by trip length and usage
- 02Search plans by destination, price, and data
- 03Check coverage and mobile networks
- 04View plan details and destination options
- 05Create links to preselected plans
Use cases
- 01Choose data for a single-country trip
- 02Compare coverage across a multi-country itinerary
- 03Find plans within a data and price requirement
MCP support
Exposes read-only PuraSIM catalog tools to MCP clients over Streamable HTTP at `https://api.purasim.com/mcp`. No authentication is required; checkout links do not place orders.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://api.purasim.com/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http purasim-purasim https://api.purasim.com/mcp{"mcpServers":{"purasim-purasim":{"type":"http","url":"https://api.purasim.com/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"purasim-purasim":{"type":"http","url":"https://api.purasim.com/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"purasim-purasim":{"type":"http","url":"https://api.purasim.com/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"purasim-purasim":{"serverUrl":"https://api.purasim.com/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
Details
From the project READMEPuraSIM MCP server — travel eSIM plans for AI assistants
Remote Model Context Protocol server for PuraSIM, a travel eSIM store. It lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code and any MCP client search PuraSIM's prepaid data plans for 187 countries and territories, recommend a plan for a trip, check coverage and mobile networks, and return a link where the user can buy the plan on purasim.com.
https://api.purasim.com/mcp
- Transport: Streamable HTTP (stateless, JSON responses)
- Authentication: none. It only reads the public catalog, the same data shown on purasim.com
- Read-only: no tool places an order, takes a payment or touches an account
- Data: the live PuraSIM catalog (about 3,400 plans), rebuilt daily from the store and the network provider
Connect
Claude (claude.ai and Claude Desktop): Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste https://api.purasim.com/mcp.
Claude Code:
claude mcp add --transport http purasim https://api.purasim.com/mcp
ChatGPT (developer mode): create a custom connector with this URL and authentication None.
Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json), Windsurf, and other clients that take a JSON config:
{
"mcpServers": {
"purasim": { "url": "https://api.purasim.com/mcp" }
}
}
VS Code (.vscode/mcp.json):
{
"servers": {
"purasim": { "type": "http", "url": "https://api.purasim.com/mcp" }
}
}
Clients that only speak stdio can use mcp-remote:
{
"mcpServers": {
"purasim": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://api.purasim.com/mcp"] }
}
}
Tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
recommend_plan | Best plan(s) for a trip from its length and expected usage (light, medium, heavy). Accepts one destination or a list of countries for a multi-country trip. |
search_plans | Plans for a country, region or global, cheapest first. Filters: data, validity, price, daily plans. |
check_coverage | "Does it work in Peru?": every destination that covers a country, with its mobile networks. |
get_destination_info | Countries, operators, 4G/5G, validity options and entry price of a destination. |
get_plan | Full detail of one plan: data, validity, speed after the daily allowance, networks per country. |
list_destinations | All destinations (countries, regions, global) with entry prices. |
create_checkout_link | The purasim.com page of a plan with the plan preselected. No order is placed. |
Every tool accepts locale (en, es, de, fr, it, pt, nl, pl, cs, da, no, sv, ro, tr, ar, he, id, ja, ko, th, zh) for the language of the store pages and country names, and currency (USD, EUR, GBP) for prices. Destinations can be given in any of those languages, as ISO codes ("JP") or as regions ("Europe", "Balkans", "Global").
Example questions
- "I'm going to Japan for 10 days and use a lot of maps and Instagram. Which eSIM should I get?"
- "Two weeks in Spain, Portugal and Morocco. Is there one eSIM that covers all three?"
- "Does a PuraSIM eSIM work in Peru, and on which networks?"
- "Cheapest eSIM for the USA with at least 5 GB for a week, in euros."
What the plans are
Prepaid, data-only eSIMs (no phone number), delivered by email with a QR code and installed on any eSIM-compatible, carrier-unlocked phone. Check if your phone supports eSIM. Prices on purasim.com may be shown in the shopper's local currency at checkout.
Privacy
The server needs no account and receives no personal data: only the arguments of each tool call (destination, trip length, filters). Links carry a source tag so PuraSIM can count visits that come from AI assistants.
Contact
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