# BenchGecko (remote · benchgecko.ai)

AI model prices per provider, benchmarks, own AI behavior tests and AI economy data, with sources.

- Trust score: 78/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +4
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-18

## Components

- remote · `benchgecko.ai`: 78/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-benchgecko-benchgecko/api-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-benchgecko-benchgecko/api-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://benchgecko.ai/api/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-10-18.

- **Endpoint Security**: 80/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 76/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 716 tokens (~79/item across 9 items; 9 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 40/100
  - Stability observed for 12 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 83/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 50% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 9 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 10 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the BenchGecko MCP server?

BenchGecko is a hosted endpoint at https://benchgecko.ai/api/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http ai-benchgecko-benchgecko 'https://benchgecko.ai/api/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-benchgecko-benchgecko": {
      "url": "https://benchgecko.ai/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "ai-benchgecko-benchgecko": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://benchgecko.ai/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.ai-benchgecko-benchgecko]
url = "https://benchgecko.ai/api/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "ai-benchgecko-benchgecko": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://benchgecko.ai/api/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add ai-benchgecko-benchgecko --url 'https://benchgecko.ai/api/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  ai-benchgecko-benchgecko:
    url: "https://benchgecko.ai/api/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "ai-benchgecko-benchgecko": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://benchgecko.ai/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add ai-benchgecko-benchgecko -t streamable-http -u 'https://benchgecko.ai/api/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-benchgecko-benchgecko": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://benchgecko.ai/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-10-17 (score 78, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 33 to 37. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 10 days of observed history at the previous scan, 11 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-15 (score 77, +52)

- [security improvement] Authorization: unverified → partial
- [security improvement] Injection markers: unverified → pass
- [security improvement] Transport: fail → pass
- [functional improvement] Endpoint reachability: not serving MCP → reachable
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: unverified → 100
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.30
- [functional improvement] MCP protocol: unverified → pass

### 2026-10-14 (score 25, −51)

- [security regression] Endpoint reachability: reachable → not serving MCP
- [security regression] Stability: 0.23 → unverified
- [security regression] Authorization: partial → unverified
- [security regression] Tool safety: pass → unverified
- [security regression] Transport: pass → fail
- [functional regression] Capabilities: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified

### 2026-10-13 (score 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-12 (score 75, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 20. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 6 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-10 (score 74, +49)

- [security improvement] Authorization: unverified → partial
- [security improvement] Injection markers: unverified → pass
- [security improvement] Transport: fail → pass
- [security] First check of Judged manipulation: pass
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: unverified → 100
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.13
- [functional improvement] MCP protocol: unverified → pass
- [functional] First check of Tool coverage: 50
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: fail
- [functional] First check of Destructive annotations: pass
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: pass
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: good

### 2026-10-07 (score 25)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (9)

### `search_models` (~86 tokens)

Search AI models

Find AI models in the BenchGecko catalog by name, slug or lab. Returns slugs to use with get_model, cheapest_provider and compare_models, with BenchGecko score and list price.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `query` (string, required): Model name, slug or lab, e.g. "claude opus", "gpt-5", "deepseek"

### `get_model` (~74 tokens)

Get model facts

Core facts for one AI model: BenchGecko score and rank, list price, price at every provider, benchmark scores with their original sources, Gecko Tests grades and as-of dates.

Input parameters:

- `model` (string, required): Model slug (from search_models) or name, e.g. "claude-opus-5-5"

### `cheapest_provider` (~55 tokens)

Cheapest provider for a model

Every provider serving a model, sorted by input price per 1M tokens (refreshed daily from provider endpoints), with output price, quantization and 1 day uptime.

Input parameters:

- `model` (string, required): Model slug or name

### `compare_models` (~61 tokens)

Compare two models

Side by side: BenchGecko score, list price, cheapest provider, context window, shared benchmark scores and Gecko Tests grades for two models.

Input parameters:

- `a` (string, required): First model slug or name
- `b` (string, required): Second model slug or name

### `get_gecko_test` (~160 tokens)

Gecko Test results

Results of one of BenchGecko's own tests (own measurements, CC BY 4.0): who-are-you (Does the model know which lab made it?) world-map (How well does the model draw the world map from memory?) censorship-index (How often does the model refuse legitimate questions?) knowledge-horizon (Where does the model's knowledge of world events actually stop?) tokenizer-tax (How many more tokens does the same text cost outside English?) same-model-different-host (Do providers serving the same open model give the same quality?) model-drift-index (Do models quietly change behind the same name?)

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): Rows in the text summary (structured result has all rows)
- `test` (string, required)

### `get_scorecard` (~50 tokens)

Gecko Scorecard

BenchGecko Gecko Scorecard: every model across BenchGecko's own profile tests with a letter grade per test and an overall Gecko Score (behavior, not intelligence).

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)

### `latest_findings` (~38 tokens)

Latest findings

Latest notable results detected in the Gecko Tests and price data (fixed rules, numbers and quotes from stored results).

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)

### `search` (~28 tokens)

Search BenchGecko

Search BenchGecko models and Gecko Tests. Returns ids for fetch.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string, required)

### `fetch` (~39 tokens)

Fetch a BenchGecko record

Fetch the full record for an id returned by search (model:<slug>, gecko-test:<slug> or scorecard).

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-benchgecko-benchgecko/api-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-18: 78
- 2026-10-17: 78
- 2026-10-16: 77
- 2026-10-15: 77
- 2026-10-14: 25
- 2026-10-13: 76
- 2026-10-12: 75
- 2026-10-10: 74
- 2026-10-07: 25

## Common questions

### What is the BenchGecko MCP server?

BenchGecko is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as ai.benchgecko/benchgecko. AI model prices per provider, benchmarks, own AI behavior tests and AI economy data, with sources. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://benchgecko.ai/api/mcp).

### Is the BenchGecko MCP server safe to use?

BenchGecko scores 78 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the BenchGecko MCP server expose?

BenchGecko exposes 9 tools: search_models, get_model, cheapest_provider, compare_models, get_gecko_test, and 4 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 591 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the BenchGecko MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to BenchGecko without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the BenchGecko MCP server still maintained?

BenchGecko is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 18 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://benchgecko.ai/api/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/BenchGecko/datasets
- Website: https://benchgecko.ai/api-docs#mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-benchgecko-benchgecko/api-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-benchgecko-benchgecko/api-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-benchgecko-benchgecko/api-mcp