Toolradar

Toolradar MCP Server

Search, compare and price 10,000+ software tools from your AI assistant. Every price comes with the date it was read on the vendor's own pricing page.

Works with Claude (Desktop, Code, claude.ai) · ChatGPT · Cursor · VS Code · Windsurf · Cline · any MCP client. No API key and no signup needed.

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What can your AI do with this?

• "Recommend a CRM for a 5-person B2B startup under $50 a month"
• "Compare Notion, ClickUp and Asana"
• "What are the alternatives to Jira?"
• "How much does Figma cost, and when was that price checked?"
• "Find free password managers"

Quick setup

Claude Code (hosted endpoint, nothing to install):

claude mcp add --transport http toolradar https://toolradar.com/api/mcp

Claude Code plugin (the same server plus a skill that tells Claude when to use it):

claude plugin marketplace add Nadeus/toolradar-mcp
claude plugin install toolradar@toolradar

Claude.ai, ChatGPT and other clients with custom connectors: add a remote MCP server with the URL https://toolradar.com/api/mcp (no authentication).

Claude Desktop, or any client that starts local servers (claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "toolradar": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "toolradar-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Cursor: use the button above, or Settings > MCP > add https://toolradar.com/api/mcp. VS Code: use the link above, or code --add-mcp '{"name":"toolradar","url":"https://toolradar.com/api/mcp"}'.

8 tools

Tool	What it does	Example prompt
recommend_tools	Reads a described need (category, team size, budget), returns a short list ordered by fit, with the reason, caveats and the verified starting price	"What should a 6-person agency use for a CRM under $40/mo?"
search_tools	Keyword search; a category name ("crm", "password manager") or "alternative to X" returns that category's leaders or X's alternatives	"Find free project management tools"
get_tool	Full profile: pricing, pros and cons, features, score, review synthesis	"Tell me about Linear"
compare_tools	Side-by-side comparison of 2-4 tools	"Compare Notion, ClickUp and Asana"
get_alternatives	Direct competitors of a tool	"What are the alternatives to Jira?"
get_pricing	Tiers and prices with provenance: source page, verification date, confidence	"How much does Figma cost?"
list_categories	The categories and how many tools each holds	"What categories are available?"
report_issue	Report a wrong price, a dead tool or a missing feature to the verification queue	"Notion shows $8 but their site says $10"

Every data answer includes a ready-to-use citation (Toolradar, verification date, link): quote it when you use the data.

What data do you get?

• Verified pricing: tiers read from the vendor's pricing page, with the date of the last check
• Editorial score (0-100) and review ratings aggregated from review platforms
• Pros, cons and features
• Alternatives identified per tool, not just "same category"
• Positions among tools of the same category, dated

Limits

Access	Calls per day
Anonymous (nothing to configure)	40
Free key, no signup: curl -X POST https://toolradar.com/api/v1/keys	300
Key created in your dashboard	1,000

Set the key in TOOLRADAR_API_KEY, or send it as Authorization: Bearer <key> to the hosted endpoint. Limits reset at 00:00 UTC.

Environment variables

Variable	Required	Default	Description
TOOLRADAR_API_KEY	No	none	Raises the daily limit (see above)
TOOLRADAR_MCP_URL	No	https://toolradar.com/api/mcp	Custom endpoint

The npm package is a thin stdio proxy of the hosted endpoint, so both always return the same answers.

Quality check

A nightly job asks the hosted endpoint 60 realistic software-choice questions (a full run of 205 every Sunday) and records how often a market leader of the category comes back in the top 3. The server is open for you to test.

Links

• toolradar.com/for-agents: landing page and examples
• toolradar.com/docs: API documentation
• npmjs.com/package/toolradar-mcp: npm package

The plugin package

plugin/ is one package for two directories: Claude Code (.claude-plugin/plugin.json, .mcp.json) and the OpenAI plugin format (plugin.json, mcp.json). Both carry the same skill (plugin/skills/toolradar/SKILL.md). The skill alone, for Claude Code:

claude skill add --url https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Nadeus/toolradar-mcp/main/skill-recommend-tool.md