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Cheapest Grocery Basket

Where to buy a whole grocery list today: local prices, per-unit and cross-store comparison.

Checks passed
12 / 22

2 failed · 8 not measured

Median response
128 ms

Median of successful probes over 7 days

30-day uptime
Not measured

Share of countable probes over 30 days, including daily rollups. Auth challenges are excluded.

Discovered tools
5

Tool definitions returned by this server

Independent monitoring

Health & checks

Status history

Outdated check

Last connection measurement is over 24 hours old. Current availability is unknown.

Last checked
Check summary by test group
Test areaPassedFailedUnmeasured
ConnectionCan a client connect and discover tools?
500
Reliability & speedDoes it respond consistently and quickly?
004
Access & authenticationWhat is required to use this server?
102
Tool qualityAre the tool definitions usable by an agent?
310
Publisher identityCan the publisher be traced to its source?
312

Unmeasured means there is not enough evidence to decide. How these checks work

Inspect individual checks 22 recorded

Core

  • Pass
    Reachable

    Latest probe returned HTTP 200 in 128 ms.

  • Pass
    Valid handshake

    protocolVersion 2025-11-25, serverInfo.name com.mcpscores/cheapest-grocery-basket.

  • Pass
    Lists tools

    tools/list returned 5 tools.

  • Pass
    Current protocol

    Negotiated 2025-11-25. The bar is 2025-06-18 or newer.

  • Pass
    HTTPS

    The endpoint URL is https.

Performance

  • Not measured
    Fast (p50)

    Median latency 128 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 1000 ms. Need at least 5 samples.

  • Not measured
    Consistent (p95)

    95th percentile 128 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 3000 ms. Need at least 20 samples.

  • Not measured
    Reliable (uptime)

    1 of 1 attempts returned a tool list in 30 days (100%). The bar is 99%. Need at least 30 samples.

  • Not measured
    Stable tool list

    Fewer than two successful probes in 30 days, so tool-list stability is not measured.

Access

  • Pass
    Open access

    tools/list succeeded with no credential, and the record declares none.

  • Not measured
    Standard auth

    Auth is not required, so the OAuth metadata check does not apply.

  • Not measured
    Free tier cited

    No publisher quote has been checked.

Tools

  • Pass
    Tools described

    Every tool description is at least 20 characters.

  • Pass
    Valid input schemas

    Every inputSchema is a JSON Schema object.

  • Pass
    Parameters documented

    16 of 16 parameters have a description (100%). The bar is 80%.

  • Fail
    Safety hints

    5 tools set neither readOnlyHint nor destructiveHint.

Publisher

  • Pass
    Verified namespace

    Listed in the Official MCP Registry.

  • Pass
    Website matches publisher

    The website host matches the reverse-domain namespace.

  • Fail
    Source repo linked

    No repository URL is on file.

  • Not measured
    Repo owner matches

    This namespace is not an io.github login, so the owner comparison does not apply.

  • Pass
    Recently updated

    Updated 2026-08-31T02:43:13.849916Z, within 180 days.

  • Not measured
    Open-source licence

    No GitHub repository to ask about a licence.

Start using Cheapest Grocery Basket

Connect to this server

Choose your client, copy the configuration, then enable the server in your client’s MCP settings.

Run this command in your terminal, then restart Claude Code.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http cheapest-grocery-basket https://grocery-basket.bowling-anthony.workers.dev/mcp

Capabilities

Tools 5

cheapest_basket

The complete buying decision for a shopping list: the cheapest single store that can fill it, AND the cross-store optimum that buys each line wherever it is cheapest, with the dollar savings between them and how many stops that costs. Every line carries substitutes at the other stores with the exact extra cost of choosing them, so a shopper can collapse a two-stop trip into one and see precisely what that convenience costs. Out-of-stock items are skipped in favour of an in-stock option even when it is dearer. Use this as the default for "where should I buy this list today" — it is the one call that answers the whole question. Costs $0.02 USDC per call via x402 on Base.

Discovered
demand_report

FREE, no payment. The aggregate of what agents have told us they are looking for, most-requested first, with the categories nothing available yet serves. Useful if you are deciding what to build or sell into the agent economy.

Discovered
find_product

Compare a single grocery item across every collected store in a ZIP. Returns each store's actual current shelf price, whether it is on sale (and the regular price), the package size, the price normalized per comparable unit, stock, a purchase link, and when that price was last read. Use this to answer "who has the cheapest milk near me" — and note the answer reports BOTH the lowest sticker price and the best value per unit, which frequently disagree because the cheap sticker is a smaller package. For a whole shopping list use price_basket or cheapest_basket instead; calling this per item costs more and cannot optimize across stores. Costs $0.005 USDC per call via x402 on Base.

Discovered
price_basket

Price an entire shopping list at every collected store in a ZIP, one complete basket per store. Returns per-store line items with quantities and line totals, the basket subtotal, exactly which requested items that store is missing, whether the basket is complete, stock flags, and the oldest price in the basket so staleness is visible. Use this when the shopper will make one trip and wants to know where the whole list is cheapest. Accepts quantities as 'milk x2'. Costs $0.01 USDC per call via x402 on Base.

Discovered
request_data

FREE, no payment. Describe in your own words the data you are trying to buy — anything, not just groceries — and get back whether we operate a service that supplies it, with the MCP endpoint if so. Every request is catalogued so that repeatedly-requested data gets built; call it whenever you cannot find a source for something. Nothing about you is stored: not your wallet, your address, or any identifying header — only the words of the request.

Discovered

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Probe history

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Latest stored probes. Raw probe rows are kept for 14 days.
CheckedResultResponseTools
Connected128 ms5