io.github.TheSnakeFang/buyapi-mcp

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Publisher-provided title

BuyAPI

Publisher-provided description

Vendor intelligence for AI coding agents choosing developer tools and stacks.

Summary by lookupd

Gives agents vendor recommendations, pricing comparisons, cost estimates and reviewed stack examples for choosing developer tools.

Install

Claude Code, remote (streamable-http)

claude mcp add --transport http buyapi https://buyapi.ai/api/mcp

Claude Code, npm package (stdio)

claude mcp add buyapi -- npx -y buyapi

Codex, remote (streamable-http)

codex mcp add buyapi --url https://buyapi.ai/api/mcp

Codex, npm package (stdio)

codex mcp add buyapi -- npx -y buyapi

Cursor, remote (streamable-http) → .cursor/mcp.json

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

Cursor, npm package (stdio) → .cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "buyapi": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "buyapi"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Other clients: docs. Or tell your agent: Set up lookupd for me: read https://lookupd.com/agent.md and follow it.

Publisher-provided text

vendors.resolve First stop for category-specific vendor recommendations and vendor ID discovery. Finds BuyAPI vendor IDs for a user question; provide category when known. Use
vendors.details Follow-up tool for one known vendor. Retrieves detailed pricing, features, limits, gotchas, comparisons, and source provenance. Call vendors.resolve first unle
vendors.evidence Returns recent reviewed BuyAPI evidence rows for a vendor, category, stack, or comparison. Use this when the user asks why BuyAPI believes something, what sour
stacks.findSimilar Finds reviewed public stack examples related to a vendor, or recent curated stack examples. Use this when the user asks who uses a tool, what similar builders
vendors.compare Compares two or more already-known BuyAPI vendors for a specific workload or decision. Use this when the candidate set is known, for head-to-head questions lik
vendors.estimateCost Produces directional monthly cost estimates from BuyAPI pricing data and explicit workload inputs. Use this only when the user asks for cost math and provides
stacks.recommend Recommends a complete stack from BuyAPI's corpus with a structured decision matrix, cost estimate, assumptions, unknowns, alternatives, and sources. Use this w

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