Attic Standard MCP

The benchmark, live inside your AI tools
Attic Standard MCP puts the benchmark inside your AI tools through the Model Context Protocol. Your agent returns the live market rate on any model, vendor, or channel the moment you decide, native to Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and any MCP client. Start free on the aggregated view; PRO opens the full SKU-level detail.

OVERVIEW
Pricing Intelligence at Decision Time
What MCP is, what it does, why it matters
What is the cheapest model with 100K context and tool calling? That turns from a research project into a single query.

The Model Context Protocol is an open standard for connecting AI assistants to external data sources. Attic Standard MCP makes our entire pricing dataset, plus the capability intelligence behind every model, available through this protocol, so your agent can search models, compare vendors, and rank options by capability and cost without leaving the chat environment.

Connect once with a JSON config block, then query in plain language. Your agent gains access to verified pricing across the inference economy: the published price indexes and market KPIs, capability metadata, and for PRO every SKU at every vendor. No software to install, no rate limits to navigate, no separate dashboards to maintain.


TOOLS
Eleven Tools, Free and PRO
Every tool returns structured pricing intelligence

Each tool addresses a different decision. The free tier carries everything the site publishes: the price indexes, their history and baskets, the market KPIs and the aggregated market view. PRO opens the vendor and SKU detail behind them.

Tool
What it does
Tier
get_index_benchmarks
Returns every published price index, 23 across six families: modality, channel, tier, license, origin and use case. Each carries the benchmark level (May 2026 = 100) with weekly, monthly and since-base change, and the spot price with its interquartile range.
Free
get_price_history
Returns the weekly series behind any index, so an agent can reason about where a price has been rather than only where it stands today. On PRO it also returns a model's price at every vendor week by week, with each repricing.
Free
get_kpis
Returns the nine market KPIs with their published definitions: output premium, caching discount and caching availability; repricing activity, repricing depth and post-launch drift; multi-vendor spread, first-party premium and marketplace premium.
Free
get_model_intelligence
Returns the six Model Intelligence KPIs drawn from model metadata: reasoning tier share, long-context saturation, frontier context ceiling, output ceiling spread, training cutoff lag, and vendor modality breadth.
Free
get_index_constituents
Opens any index basket and shows its composition by channel, origin, tier and license. On PRO it names every model in the basket and the vendors selling it.
Free
get_market_stats
Returns market coverage, vendors by channel, models, SKUs and published indexes, with price distributions split by modality, unit and direction.
Free
list_vendors
Returns every inference vendor we track, grouped by channel type: model developer, cloud marketplace, inference platform, neocloud.
Free
search_models
Searches every priced SKU with filters for modality, channel, creator, tier, license, origin, reasoning, open weights, context window and price, cheapest first.
PRO
get_model_detail
Deep-dive on any model: specs, license, training cutoff, the indexes it belongs to, and its price at every vendor.
PRO
compare_prices
Side-by-side comparison of the same model or family across vendors, with the cheapest and dearest offer and the spread for input, cached and output prices.
PRO
get_vendor_catalog
Returns the complete price list for any tracked vendor, with its channel and coverage.
PRO

INTEGRATION
Connect in Under a Minute
One JSON config block, any MCP-compatible client

Add the Attic Standard MCP server to your client's configuration. The free tier needs no key. PRO subscribers receive a key and give it to their agent once, for example in a project instruction, and the agent passes it with every call.

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "attic-standard": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://mcp.atticstandard.com/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Once added, restart your client and the Attic Standard tools appear automatically. In Claude on the web, add it under Settings, Connectors, Add custom connector, with the address https://mcp.atticstandard.com/mcp.

Claude Desktop
Native MCP support
Add to claude_desktop_config.json, restart Claude, and the tools appear.
Cursor
Built-in integration
Add to settings or workspace config. Tools are available across the entire workspace.
Windsurf
Remote server
Configure through MCP settings with the same block, using the default Windsurf integration paths.
Custom clients
Any MCP-compatible client
Connect to the server address over Streamable HTTP. Standard MCP protocol, with no proprietary extensions.

Attic Standard MCP is also listed across the MCP ecosystem, including Smithery, the Official MCP Registry, MCP.so, npm, mcpservers.org, PulseMCP, Glama.ai, LobeHub, MCPMarket and GitHub.


PLANS
Free or PRO
Start free with market-level tools, upgrade for SKU-level access

The free tier gives immediate access to the market intelligence. PRO unlocks the operational tools that let an agent make specific model and vendor decisions at runtime.

Capability
Free
$0
PRO
$500/mo
Price indexes, all 23
✓
✓
Index history
✓
✓
Market KPIs
✓
✓
Model intelligence KPIs
✓
✓
Market coverage and distributions
✓
✓
Full vendor list
✓
✓
Index basket composition
✓
✓
Named index baskets
–
✓
SKU-level model search
–
✓
Model deep-dives
–
✓
Cross-vendor price comparison
–
✓
Full vendor catalogs
–
✓
Model price history
–
✓
Update frequency
Weekly
Weekly
Support
One business day
Priority, same business day

USE CASES
How Teams Use MCP
Three decisions the live rate changes
Negotiation
Walk in knowing the market rate
Before a vendor conversation, pull the live cross-vendor comparison and the benchmark for the models you buy. You arrive with the number, rather than the one the vendor hands you.
Model selection
The cheapest model that clears the bar
Filter by what the workload actually needs and get the cheapest current option across every vendor, priced the moment you choose. Capability and cost in one answer.
Spend monitoring
Catch every price move where you work
Ask how your vendors moved this week from inside Claude or Cursor, then act on the drop worth capturing or the rise worth renegotiating. No dashboard to open.

GET STARTED
Three Steps to Live
The free tier needs no signup. PRO unlocks on subscription.
01
Choose your client
Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, or any MCP-compatible client. All work the same way.
02
Add the config
Copy the JSON block above into your client's MCP configuration file, then restart the client.
03
Start querying
Ask your agent anything about inference pricing. The free tier works immediately; give your agent your PRO key to open the full detail.
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WHERE TO GO NEXT
Other Ways into Attic Standard
The same benchmark, delivered differently

MCP puts the benchmark where you are already working. Terminal gives the full historical record on a dashboard built for analysis, and Feed delivers the underlying records straight into your own systems.


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