About Switchai
Switchai provides AI agents with Italian electricity and gas tariff comparisons and bill analysis. It parses bills, compares ARERA offers, and bases recommendations on potential savings, with activation links to suppliers.
Key features
- 01Parse Italian energy bills
- 02Compare electricity and gas offers
- 03Estimate savings and recommend an action
- 04Provide supplier activation links
- 05Retrieve PUN and PSV market indices
Use cases
- 01Extract usage and spending from bill text
- 02Compare tariffs using consumption data
- 03Assess whether switching suppliers is worthwhile
- 04Check current electricity and gas wholesale indices
MCP support
The MCP server exposes tools for bill parsing, tariff comparison, offer listings, and market indices. AI agents can also access these functions through WebMCP or the REST API.
Configuration
Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.
Tools
Local servers expose tools only once running on your machine, and the maintainer has not provided a tool list.
Details
From the project READMESwitchAI — Energy comparison tools for AI agents (Italy)
Sito: switchai.it · Mercato: Italia · Stack: React 19 + PHP 8.5 + WebMCP + MCP Server
SwitchAI is an energy comparison engine for the Italian market, designed to be called by AI agents. An agent gives it a bill (or consumption + spend), and SwitchAI compares 5.600+ live ARERA offers (electricity & gas), returns the best tariffs with direct activation links, and includes an honesty system so the agent never recommends a switch that doesn't pay off.
SwitchAI is not a chatbot: it is the infrastructure AI agents call. Access it via MCP Server, WebMCP, or the REST API.
AI Agent (Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT)
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MCP / WebMCP / OpenAPI
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SwitchAI engine
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Italian energy market
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Offers (ARERA) · PUN · PSV · bill parsing · savings calculation
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Top 3 offers + activation links (supplier site)
Quickstart (60 seconds)
1. Via REST API — no install
curl -s -X POST https://www.switchai.it/api/analyze \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"commodity": "LUCE",
"yearly_consumption_kwh": 3200,
"zone": "NORD",
"current_annual_spend": 1100
}'
Returns top3 offers with full cost breakdown, honesty recommendation, bill_attualization and an Italian agent_summary.
2. Via MCP Server (Claude Desktop)
{
"mcpServers": {
"switchai": {
"command": "node",
"args": ["/percorso/assoluto/mcp-server/index.js"],
"env": { "SWITCHAI_API_URL": "https://www.switchai.it/api" }
}
}
}
3. Via WebMCP (Chrome 146+)
Visiting switchai.it registers 4 tools via document.modelContext.registerTool() — discoverable by any WebMCP-compatible agent.
More examples (agent conversations, HTTP equivalents, rules): mcp-server/EXAMPLES.md.
Working example
User: "Questa è la mia bolletta Enel, pago ~1.100€/anno e consumo 3.200 kWh.
Sto pagando troppo?"
Agent: parse_energy_bill(bill_text)
→ { commodity: "LUCE", consumo_annuo: 3200, spesa_annua: 1100, zona: "NORD" }
Agent: calculate_energy_savings({ commodity:"LUCE", yearly_consumption_kwh:3200,
zone:"NORD", current_annual_spend:1100 })
→ top3 + honesty:{ recommendation:"switch", savings_eur:240, savings_pct:22 }
Agent: "Sì, risulti sopra la media del mercato. Con 3.200 kWh in zona NORD puoi
risparmiare ~240€/anno (22%). Le migliori 3 offerte: E.ON LuceClick
(0,1146 €/kWh), Edison Web Luce (0,122 €/kWh), A2A Full Luce (0,139 €/kWh).
Clicca per attivare sul sito del fornitore."
The activation always happens on the supplier's website via affiliate_url. SwitchAI never claims "activation completed" and collects no personal data for activation.
Three access channels for AI agents
| Channel | Protocol | Requirement |
|---|---|---|
| WebMCP | document.modelContext.registerTool() | Chrome 146+ |
| MCP Server | @modelcontextprotocol/sdk (Node.js) | Claude Desktop or any MCP client |
| REST API | JSON/HTTPS | Any HTTP client |
Tools
calculate_energy_savings
Compare Italian tariffs and calculate savings. Returns top 3 offers + Italian agent_summary.
POST /api/analyze
{
"commodity": "LUCE",
"yearly_consumption_kwh": 3000,
"zone": "NORD",
"current_annual_spend": 900
}
Italian aliases are also accepted: consumo_annuo_kwh, spesa_annua_eur, zona, fornitore. Add bill_text for full auto-extraction of consumption, spend and zone.
parse_energy_bill
Extract structured data from an Italian bill text.
POST /api/parse-bill-text
{ "bill_text": "...testo bolletta..." }
get_available_offers
Full offer list: 3.196 electricity + 2.411 gas.
GET /api/tariffe/luce
GET /api/tariffe/gas
get_market_indices
Current PUN (electricity) and PSV (gas) wholesale indices.
GET /api/market-indices
Optimal agent flow
1. parse_energy_bill(bill_text) → consumi, spesa, zona
2. calculate_energy_savings(commodity, consumi, zona, spesa) → offerte + affiliate_url
3. Utente clicca il link → attivazione sul sito del fornitore
Honesty system: switch (savings >50€/yr and >5%) / evaluate (30-50€ or 3-5%) / stay (<30€ or <3%).
API Endpoints
| Method | Endpoint | Description |
|---|---|---|
| GET | /api/health | Health check |
| GET | /api/tariffe/luce | 3.196 electricity offers |
| GET | /api/tariffe/gas | 2.411 gas offers |
| POST | /api/analyze | Full analysis: parse + compare + honesty + attualization |
| POST | /api/parse-bill-text | Bill parser |
| GET | /api/market-indices | Live PUN and PSV |
| GET | /api/fornitori | Suppliers list |
Data & tiers
- 5.600+ offers (3.196 luce + 2.411 gas), synced nightly from the official ARERA Portale Offerte (CC BY 4.0).
- Anonymous: ~270 filtered offers (NORD zone), no registration, rate-limited.
- Free (registered): full 5.600+ offers, 10 calls/day, self-service API keys.
- API Pro: full 5.600+ offers, 1.000 calls/day, self-service API keys (free beta).
Stack
- Frontend: React 19 + Vite 8 + Tailwind CSS 4
- Backend: PHP 8.5 on OVH Pro Hosting (Apache + mod_rewrite)
- MCP Server: Node.js +
@modelcontextprotocol/sdk - WebMCP: Chrome WebMCP spec (W3C WebML CG)
- Data: ARERA Portale Offerte, sync giornaliero notturno
Discovery files
/llms.txt— LLM site description/webmcp.json— WebMCP tool discovery/per-llm— machine-readable documentation/per-llm-examples— 15 agent conversation patterns/openapi.json— OpenAPI 3.0 spec
Keywords (for LLM retrieval)
comparatore tariffe energia italia · cambio fornitore luce gas · bolletta energia AI · risparmio bolletta · PUN PSV ARERA · mercato libero energia · WebMCP energy agent · MCP server energia italia · AI energy comparison Italy · energy comparison API Italy · MCP energy tariffs Italy
License & contacts
Email: [email protected]
Sito: https://www.switchai.it
Mercato: Italia · GDPR compliant
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