INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

find_alternatives

Given a product the user pays for (and optionally what they pay per month and the features they use), return the ranked ways to replace it, re-costed against their actual monthly bill, with which of their features each path covers.

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LIVE ENDPOINT

https://stackcut.io/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for find_alternatives and invoke it with your own arguments.

Indexed input schema

{}

Risk classification

Potential side effects detected · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

A tool name or description suggests a financial action.

Parent server

stackcut.io

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.stackcut]
url = "https://stackcut.io/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "stackcut": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://stackcut.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: stackcut
Remote MCP URL: https://stackcut.io/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "stackcut": {
      "url": "https://stackcut.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "stackcut": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://stackcut.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "stackcut",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://stackcut.io/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

Related tools

search_recipes — Search Stackcut's catalog of replacement recipes.
get_recipe — Full recipe: the features it covers, what is out of scope, checks to run before switching, and every replacement path with modeled first-year net savings, monthly costs, setup hours, maintenance, pros/cons, license notes and sources.
get_build_packet — Agent-ready build packet for a recipe: SPEC.
leaderboard — Top replacement paths across the catalog: 'savings' ranks by modeled first-year net savings, 'payback' by months to recover setup cost, 'popular' by how often people and agents used them.
audit_stack — Audit the paid services a codebase or team uses.
get_detection_rules — Rules for finding paid services in a codebase locally: package names (npm, PyPI, RubyGems, Go), environment variable NAME patterns, config files, API hosts, and per-feature code patterns for about 100 vendors.
list_categories — Categories in the catalog with recipe counts and the best modeled first-year savings in each.
get_my_plan — Read the user's own Stackcut savings plan with the read-only agent code they copied from stackcut.