About AISOTools
AISOTools is a hosted, read-only MCP server for assistants and users researching AI software. It searches a catalog with pricing, ratings, features, and alternatives, and returns canonical pages for sources.
Key features
- 01Search tools by keyword, category, and pricing
- 02Retrieve full tool records
- 03List categories and subcategories
- 04Compare two to five tools
- 05Find curated and same-category alternatives
Use cases
- 01Find AI tools matching a need and budget
- 02Review a tool's features and pricing
- 03Compare candidate tools side by side
MCP support
Exposes catalog search, lookup, category, comparison, and alternatives tools to MCP clients over stateless Streamable HTTP. It requires no authentication or API key.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://aisotools.com/api/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http shibley-aisotools https://aisotools.com/api/mcp{"mcpServers":{"shibley-aisotools":{"type":"http","url":"https://aisotools.com/api/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"shibley-aisotools":{"type":"http","url":"https://aisotools.com/api/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"shibley-aisotools":{"type":"http","url":"https://aisotools.com/api/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"shibley-aisotools":{"serverUrl":"https://aisotools.com/api/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
5| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | number | No | Maximum results, 1-50. Defaults to 10. |
| query | string | No | Free-text search, e.g. 'video editing', 'transcription', or a product name. |
| pricing | enum | No | Restrict to one pricing model.free | freemium | paid | open-source |
| category | string | No | Restrict to one category slug. Call list_ai_tool_categories for the valid values. |
Details
From the project READMEAISOTools MCP Server
A hosted Model Context Protocol server over the AISOTools catalog — 3,064 AI tools with pricing, ratings, features, pros, cons, and curated alternatives.
There is nothing to install. The server is a stateless Streamable HTTP endpoint:
https://aisotools.com/api/mcp
Every result carries the canonical https://aisotools.com/tool/<slug> page for the
tool, so an assistant answering "what's the best transcription API?" can cite a source
rather than paraphrase from memory.
Tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
search_ai_tools | Search the catalog by keyword, category, and pricing (free/freemium/paid). Ranked summaries. |
get_ai_tool | Full record for one tool — description, features, pros, cons, who it's best for, pricing tiers, alternatives. Accepts a slug or a display name. |
list_ai_tool_categories | Every category with its slug, subcategories, and tool count. Use the slugs to filter search_ai_tools. |
compare_ai_tools | Side-by-side comparison of 2–5 named tools. Names it can't resolve come back in an unmatched array rather than being silently dropped. |
find_ai_tool_alternatives | Alternatives to a given tool. Curated alternatives and same-category fallbacks are returned in separate fields, not blended. |
Read-only. No authentication, no API key, no rate-limit signup.
Connect
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http aisotools https://aisotools.com/api/mcp
Claude Desktop / any client without native HTTP transport
{
"mcpServers": {
"aisotools": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://aisotools.com/api/mcp"]
}
}
}
Raw JSON-RPC
curl -sS https://aisotools.com/api/mcp \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Notes on the data
totalToolsis 3,064 at the time of writing and moves as the catalog grows;search_ai_toolsreports bothmatchedandsearchedso you can see the denominator it actually searched.sponsoredis computed against the placement's expiry, so a lapsed sponsorship reportsfalserather than staying flagged forever. Sponsored placement never changes search ranking.- Ratings and review counts are catalog metadata, not live scrapes.
Protocol
Streamable HTTP, protocol version 2025-06-18. POST only — GET and DELETE
answer 405 (the server is stateless, so there is no SSE stream or session to
resume). Notifications answer 202 with no body. JSON-RPC batches are supported.
License
MIT © Bity LLC
Comments
New to MCP?
From what the protocol is to installing your first server, these answers cover most first questions.
An open protocol that defines how AI applications connect to external tools and data in a uniform way. Clients talk to the model; MCP servers provide tools, resources and prompt templates. They exchange standard messages, so one server can be reused by many clients.