# switch402 (remote · api.switch402.com)

Markdown scrape, site map, page metadata, screenshots, web search and PDF to text. Pay per call

- Trust score: 67/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +4
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `api.switch402.com`: 67/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-switch402-switch402/api.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-switch402-switch402/api)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://api.switch402.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `0.4.1`

## 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**: 57/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation not fully verified: no authorisation is required to call this server, and 9 tool(s) never declared a destructiveHint. The MCP spec treats an absent hint as destructive by default, so we cannot call this surface safe.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - 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**: 73/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 882 tokens (~98/item across 9 items; 9 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 23/100
  - Stability observed for 7 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 95/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 85% 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 switch402 MCP server?

switch402 is a hosted endpoint at https://api.switch402.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-switch402-switch402 'https://api.switch402.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-switch402-switch402": {
      "url": "https://api.switch402.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-switch402-switch402": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.switch402.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-switch402-switch402]
url = "https://api.switch402.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-switch402-switch402": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://api.switch402.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-switch402-switch402 --url 'https://api.switch402.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-switch402-switch402:
    url: "https://api.switch402.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-switch402-switch402": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://api.switch402.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-switch402-switch402 -t streamable-http -u 'https://api.switch402.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-switch402-switch402": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.switch402.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.

### 2026-11-05 (score 67, +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.

### 2026-11-03 (score 66, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-31 (score 65, +1)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [security] Tool “scrape_lite” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 736 → 882
- [functional] Server version: 0.3.0 → 0.4.1
- [functional] New tool “pdf”

### 2026-10-30 (score 64, +1)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 257 → 736
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: 75% → 82%
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [functional] Server version: 0.2.0 → 0.3.0
- [functional] New tool “map”
- [functional] New tool “metadata”
- [functional] New tool “screenshot”
- [functional] New tool “screenshot_full”
- [functional] New tool “search”

### 2026-10-29 (score 63)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (9)

### `scrape` (~76 tokens)

Scrape a page to markdown

Page to clean markdown, routed to a healthy provider with automatic failover. Paid: $0.008 USDC on Base via x402 (charged only on success). Unpaid calls return x402 payment requirements; retry with _meta["x402/payment"].

Input parameters:

- `url` (string, required): Public http(s) page to convert to markdown.

### `scrape_lite` (~93 tokens)

Scrape a page to markdown (lite)

URL to markdown: any public page as clean markdown, with failover (/v1/scrape/lite: $0.003 per page). Paid: $0.003 USDC on Base via x402 (charged only on success). Unpaid calls return x402 payment requirements; retry with _meta["x402/payment"].

Input parameters:

- `url` (string, required): Public http(s) page to convert to markdown.

### `map` (~106 tokens)

Map a site: links + sitemap URLs

Same-site URLs found on the page plus sitemap URLs (robots.txt Sitemap lines or /sitemap.xml), deduped, up to limit (default 200, max 1000). Paid: map $0.001 USDC on Base via x402 (charged only on success). Unpaid calls return x402 payment requirements; retry with _meta["x402/payment"].

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `url` (string, required): Public http(s) page or site root.

### `metadata` (~85 tokens)

Page metadata (title, OG, JSON-LD)

Title, meta description, canonical, lang, OpenGraph and Twitter tags, and parsed JSON-LD blocks of an HTML page. Paid: metadata $0.001 USDC on Base via x402 (charged only on success). Unpaid calls return x402 payment requirements; retry with _meta["x402/payment"].

Input parameters:

- `url` (string, required): Public http(s) HTML page.

### `screenshot` (~87 tokens)

Screenshot a page (PNG)

The visible part of a public page (1280x800 viewport, JavaScript rendered) as a base64 PNG in image_base64. Paid: $0.008 USDC on Base via x402 (charged only on success). Unpaid calls return x402 payment requirements; retry with _meta["x402/payment"].

Input parameters:

- `url` (string, required): Public http(s) page to capture.

### `screenshot_full` (~80 tokens)

Full-page screenshot (PNG)

The whole scrollable page (JavaScript rendered) as a base64 PNG in image_base64. Paid: $0.012 USDC on Base via x402 (charged only on success). Unpaid calls return x402 payment requirements; retry with _meta["x402/payment"].

Input parameters:

- `url` (string, required): Public http(s) page to capture.

### `search` (~87 tokens)

Web search

A query in, up to 10 ranked web results (title, url, snippet) out. Paid: $0.008 USDC on Base via x402 (charged only on success). Unpaid calls return x402 payment requirements; retry with _meta["x402/payment"].

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): Max results (default 10).
- `query` (string, required): Search query.

### `pdf` (~116 tokens)

PDF to text

A public PDF URL in, its text page by page out (up to 50 pages, 10 MB; text-based PDFs). Paid: $0.008 USDC on Base via x402 (charged only when text comes back). Unpaid calls return x402 payment requirements; retry with _meta["x402/payment"].

Input parameters:

- `pages`: Optional page numbers (up to 50): [1, 2] or "1-3,7".
- `url` (string, required): Public http(s) URL of a PDF.

### `quote` (~53 tokens)

Price and availability (free)

Free. Our price for a tier, how many providers are healthy right now, estimated latency, and payment status.

Input parameters:

- `tier` (string)
- `url` (string, required): Public http(s) page to convert to markdown.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-switch402-switch402/api#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 67
- 2026-11-04: 66
- 2026-11-03: 66
- 2026-11-02: 65
- 2026-11-01: 65
- 2026-10-31: 65
- 2026-10-30: 64
- 2026-10-29: 63

## Common questions

### What is the switch402 MCP server?

switch402 is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.switch402/switch402. Markdown scrape, site map, page metadata, screenshots, web search and PDF to text. Pay per call. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://api.switch402.com/mcp).

### Is the switch402 MCP server safe to use?

switch402 scores 67 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 switch402 MCP server expose?

switch402 exposes 9 tools: scrape, scrape_lite, map, metadata, screenshot, and 4 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 783 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the switch402 MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to switch402 without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the switch402 MCP server still maintained?

switch402 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://api.switch402.com/mcp
- Website: https://api.switch402.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-switch402-switch402/api.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-switch402-switch402/api.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-switch402-switch402/api