INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

vendors.estimateCost

Produces directional monthly cost estimates from BuyAPI pricing data and explicit workload inputs.

buyapi.ainone authenticationAvailability not checked

LIVE ENDPOINT

https://buyapi.ai/api/mcp

No auth detected

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

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Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

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

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.buyapi]
url = "https://buyapi.ai/api/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "buyapi": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://buyapi.ai/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: buyapi
Remote MCP URL: https://buyapi.ai/api/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": {
    "buyapi": {
      "url": "https://buyapi.ai/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "buyapi": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://buyapi.ai/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "buyapi",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://buyapi.ai/api/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

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

vendors.resolve — First stop for category-specific vendor recommendations and vendor ID discovery.
vendors.details — Follow-up tool for one known vendor.
vendors.evidence — Returns recent reviewed BuyAPI evidence rows for a vendor, category, stack, or comparison.
stacks.findSimilar — Finds reviewed public stack examples related to a vendor, or recent curated stack examples.
vendors.compare — Compares two or more already-known BuyAPI vendors for a specific workload or decision.
stacks.recommend — Recommends a complete stack from BuyAPI's corpus with a structured decision matrix, cost estimate, assumptions, unknowns, alternatives, and sources.