# StackRates VPS prices (remote · stackrates.ai)

VPS prices read daily from providers' own pricing pages and APIs: cheapest by size, place or app.

- Trust score: 71/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-18

## Components

- remote · `stackrates.ai`: 71/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-stackrates-vps-prices/stackrates.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-stackrates-vps-prices/stackrates)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://stackrates.ai/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**: 63/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 931 tokens (~186/item across 5 items; 5 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 13/100
  - Stability observed for 4 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 99/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 96% 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 5 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 6 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the StackRates VPS prices MCP server?

StackRates VPS prices is a hosted endpoint at https://stackrates.ai/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-stackrates-vps-prices 'https://stackrates.ai/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-stackrates-vps-prices": {
      "url": "https://stackrates.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "ai-stackrates-vps-prices": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://stackrates.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.ai-stackrates-vps-prices]
url = "https://stackrates.ai/mcp"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add ai-stackrates-vps-prices --url 'https://stackrates.ai/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  ai-stackrates-vps-prices:
    url: "https://stackrates.ai/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "ai-stackrates-vps-prices": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://stackrates.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add ai-stackrates-vps-prices -t streamable-http -u 'https://stackrates.ai/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-stackrates-vps-prices": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://stackrates.ai/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.

### 2026-10-18 (score 71, +2)

- [security improvement] HSTS header: fail → pass

### 2026-10-17 (score 69, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-15 (score 68, 0)

- [functional regression] Schema quality: 165 → 186
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [functional] Server version: 1.0.0 → 1.5.0
- [functional] New tool “advise_vps_choice”
- [cosmetic] “search_vps_plans” reworded the description of “location”
- [cosmetic] “server_for_app” reworded the description of “location”

### 2026-10-14 (score 68)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (5)

### `ask_vps_prices` (~58 tokens)

Ask a VPS price question

Answer a plain-language hosting price question ("cheapest 4 GB VPS in Germany under $10", "hetzner vs vultr", "server for a Minecraft Java server") from today’s prices.

Input parameters:

- `question` (string, required)

### `search_vps_plans` (~275 tokens)

Search VPS plans

Cheapest VPS plans matching a size, budget, provider or location, cheapest first (one per provider unless exactly one provider is given).

Input parameters:

- `limit` (number): 1-20, default 8.
- `location` (string): Country, city or region slug, e.g. usa, germany, india, frankfurt, new-york, europe, asia, austria, vienna, helsinki, zurich.
- `managed` (boolean): Managed hosting (Cloudways, Kinsta) instead of unmanaged servers.
- `max_usd_month` (number): Maximum monthly price in USD.
- `min_disk_gb` (number): Minimum disk in GB.
- `min_ram_gb` (number): Minimum memory in GB (0.5 for 512 MB).
- `min_transfer_tb` (number): Minimum included monthly transfer in TB.
- `min_vcpu` (number): Minimum vCPU count.
- `no_commitment` (boolean): Leave out prices that need a prepaid term.
- `providers` (array): Provider slugs, e.g. hetzner, digitalocean, vultr, akamai-linode, aws-lightsail, ovhcloud, contabo, netcup.
- `unmetered` (boolean): Only plans with unmetered traffic.

### `server_for_app` (~144 tokens)

Cheapest server for a self-hosted app

The documented requirements of a self-hosted app or game server (n8n, Nextcloud AIO, Immich, Minecraft Java, Odoo, GitLab, ... 192 apps) and the cheapest plans that meet them.

Input parameters:

- `app` (string, required): App name or slug, e.g. n8n, immich, minecraft-java, gitlab.
- `location` (string): Country, city or region slug, e.g. usa, germany, india, frankfurt, new-york, europe, asia, austria, vienna, helsinki, zurich.
- `max_usd_month` (number): Maximum monthly price in USD.

### `current_vps_offers` (~122 tokens)

Current VPS offers

Introductory and sale prices on the providers’ own pages today, each judged on its first year against the cheapest regular plan with as much memory.

Input parameters:

- `max_usd_month` (number): Maximum monthly price in USD.
- `min_ram_gb` (number): Minimum memory in GB (0.5 for 512 MB).
- `providers` (array): Provider slugs, e.g. hetzner, digitalocean, vultr, akamai-linode, aws-lightsail, ovhcloud, contabo, netcup.

### `advise_vps_choice` (~244 tokens)

Advise on a VPS choice

A messy buying question in plain words ("moving WordPress and a small Postgres app off a $40 box, I am in Germany, no yearly contract") answered from today’s prices: how the question was read (editable filter), the matching plans with their cost over the term, two to four sentences on the trade-offs written only from those rows, and what the data cannot answer. Pass the previous answer’s `filter` to continue a conversation. Every number comes from the dataset; the first line says whether a small language model or the rule parser read the question.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string): Buyer’s country, ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 (DE, GB, US), used only to add VAT where the price is ex VAT.
- `filter` (object): The `filter` object returned by the previous advise_vps_choice call, to carry the conversation forward.
- `limit` (number): 1-20, default 8.
- `question` (string, required): The buyer’s question, up to 500 characters.
- `term_months` (number): How long the buyer plans to keep the server (default 12).

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-10-18: 71
- 2026-10-17: 69
- 2026-10-16: 68
- 2026-10-15: 68
- 2026-10-14: 68

## Common questions

### What is the StackRates VPS prices MCP server?

StackRates VPS prices is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as ai.stackrates/vps-prices. VPS prices read daily from providers' own pricing pages and APIs: cheapest by size, place or app. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://stackrates.ai/mcp).

### Is the StackRates VPS prices MCP server safe to use?

StackRates VPS prices scores 71 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 StackRates VPS prices MCP server expose?

StackRates VPS prices exposes 5 tools: ask_vps_prices, search_vps_plans, server_for_app, current_vps_offers, advise_vps_choice. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 843 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the StackRates VPS prices MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the StackRates VPS prices MCP server still maintained?

StackRates VPS prices 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://stackrates.ai/mcp
- Website: https://stackrates.ai/ask/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-stackrates-vps-prices/stackrates.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-stackrates-vps-prices/stackrates.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-stackrates-vps-prices/stackrates