# Cheap GPUs (remote · cheap-gpus.com)

Live GPU rental and LLM inference prices across dozens of providers, plus GPU price forecasts.

- Trust score: 72/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `cheap-gpus.com`: 72/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-cheap-gpus-cheap-gpus/cheap-gpus.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-cheap-gpus-cheap-gpus/cheap-gpus)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://cheap-gpus.com/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 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 83/100
  - 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 is configured correctly; the domain's records validate against the full chain to the root.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 69/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 754 tokens (~107/item across 7 items; 7 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 7/100
  - Stability observed for 2 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 71/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 0% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 7 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 8 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the Cheap GPUs MCP server?

Cheap GPUs is a hosted endpoint at https://cheap-gpus.com/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 com-cheap-gpus-cheap-gpus 'https://cheap-gpus.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-cheap-gpus-cheap-gpus": {
      "url": "https://cheap-gpus.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-cheap-gpus-cheap-gpus": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://cheap-gpus.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-cheap-gpus-cheap-gpus]
url = "https://cheap-gpus.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-cheap-gpus-cheap-gpus --url 'https://cheap-gpus.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-cheap-gpus-cheap-gpus:
    url: "https://cheap-gpus.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-cheap-gpus-cheap-gpus": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://cheap-gpus.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-cheap-gpus-cheap-gpus -t streamable-http -u 'https://cheap-gpus.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-cheap-gpus-cheap-gpus": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://cheap-gpus.com/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.

### 2026-11-04 (score 72, +1)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [cosmetic] Tool “cheapest_gpu” changed its title: Cheapest GPU rentals
- [cosmetic] Tool “cheapest_model_route” changed its title: Cheapest LLM providers
- [cosmetic] Tool “find_model” changed its title: Find an LLM
- [cosmetic] Tool “gpu_price_forecast” changed its title: GPU price forecast
- [cosmetic] Tool “gpu_price_history” changed its title: GPU price history
- [cosmetic] Tool “gpus_needed_for_model” changed its title: GPUs needed to host a model
- [cosmetic] Tool “list_gpu_families” changed its title: List GPU families

### 2026-11-03 (score 71)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (7)

### `list_gpu_families` (~47 tokens)

List GPU families

List every GPU family tracked on cheap-gpus.com, with VRAM, live cheapest
        on-demand price (USD per GPU-hour), and how many providers currently offer it.

### `cheapest_gpu` (~110 tokens)

Cheapest GPU rentals

Cheapest current rental offers for one GPU family (e.g. "H100", "RTX 5090",
        "b200"), in USD per GPU-hour, cheapest first, one row per provider.
        pricing_type is "on_demand" (default; can't be interrupted) or "spot"
        (cheaper, the provider can reclaim the machine). limit: 1-10.

Input parameters:

- `gpu` (string, required)
- `limit` (integer)
- `pricing_type` (string)

### `gpu_price_history` (~65 tokens)

GPU price history

Daily price history for one GPU family: each day's median across providers
        of each provider's cheapest offer (USD per GPU-hour). days: 1-90.

Input parameters:

- `days` (integer)
- `gpu` (string, required)
- `pricing_type` (string)

### `find_model` (~83 tokens)

Find an LLM

Search the LLM catalog by name (e.g. "deepseek v3", "gpt-oss", "llama 70b").
        Returns model slugs to pass to cheapest_model_route / gpus_needed_for_model,
        most widely offered first. limit: 1-10.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `query` (string, required)

### `cheapest_model_route` (~114 tokens)

Cheapest LLM providers

Cheapest inference providers for one LLM (e.g. "deepseek-v3", "gpt-oss-120b";
        use find_model if unsure of the name). Prices are USD per 1M tokens; estimated_cost_usd
        is for the given input/output token counts. One row per provider, cheapest first. limit: 1-10.

Input parameters:

- `input_tokens` (integer)
- `limit` (integer)
- `model` (string, required)
- `output_tokens` (integer)

### `gpu_price_forecast` (~86 tokens)

GPU price forecast

Market-implied future rental price for one GPU family (USD per GPU-hour), from
        prediction markets (Kalshi, Polymarket) and ICE futures, plus today's compute-index
        benchmarks and cheap-gpus.com's own current median price. Covers H100, H200, B200,
        A100 and RTX 5090.

Input parameters:

- `gpu` (string, required)

### `gpus_needed_for_model` (~152 tokens)

GPUs needed to host a model

How many GPUs it takes to self-host an open-weight LLM at a given quantization,
        and the cheapest rental setups for it right now. quant is one of: fp16, bf16, fp8,
        mxfp8, int8, q6, fp6, q5, q4km, nvfp4, awq, mxfp4, gptq, int4, q3, q2, iq2, iq1.
        Estimates memory only (weights + 20% runtime overhead), not throughput. limit: 1-10.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `model` (string, required)
- `quant` (string)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-cheap-gpus-cheap-gpus/cheap-gpus#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 72
- 2026-11-04: 72
- 2026-11-03: 71

## Common questions

### What is the Cheap GPUs MCP server?

Cheap GPUs is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.cheap-gpus/cheap-gpus. Live GPU rental and LLM inference prices across dozens of providers, plus GPU price forecasts. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://cheap-gpus.com/mcp).

### Is the Cheap GPUs MCP server safe to use?

Cheap GPUs scores 72 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 Cheap GPUs MCP server expose?

Cheap GPUs exposes 7 tools: list_gpu_families, cheapest_gpu, gpu_price_history, find_model, cheapest_model_route, and 2 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 657 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Cheap GPUs MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the Cheap GPUs MCP server still maintained?

Cheap GPUs is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 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://cheap-gpus.com/mcp
- Website: https://cheap-gpus.com/about
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-cheap-gpus-cheap-gpus/cheap-gpus.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-cheap-gpus-cheap-gpus/cheap-gpus.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-cheap-gpus-cheap-gpus/cheap-gpus