Developers & AI assistants

Ask Buildict from anywhere.

Every verdict, price and cheaper alternative is available to AI assistants through a free MCP server, and to your own code as JSON. No key, no sign-up.

MCP server

URL: https://buildict.com/mcp. Streamable HTTP, read-only, no authentication. Prices are dated in every answer.

search_tools

Find verdicts by name, category or verdict.

get_verdict

Full verdict for one tool: prices, free plan, cheaper alternatives, downgrade tip, build estimate, risks.

compare_costs

3-year cost of buying vs building, for your plan, seats and hourly rate.

audit_stack

Turn a list of subscriptions into a ranked savings plan with the yearly saving for each change.

plan_build

Turn an app idea into a Build Kit: a free stack with each free tier’s catch, open-source starters, AI skills, MCP servers and a step-by-step plan.

find_parts

Compare free tiers and prices for one kind of building block: databases, hosting, email, payments, AI APIs, starters and more.

Claude (claude.ai and Claude Desktop)

Open Settings → Connectors, choose Add custom connector, and paste the URL above.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http buildict https://buildict.com/mcp

Cursor

Add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or the project’s .cursor/mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "buildict": { "url": "https://buildict.com/mcp" }
  }
}

ChatGPT

Where your workspace allows custom connectors (developer mode), add a connector with the URL above. Then ask things like “Should we keep paying for Typeform?” or “Audit this stack: Slack, Zoom, Notion, Figma”.

Try it with curl

curl -s https://buildict.com/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"get_verdict","arguments":{"tool":"1password"}}}'

JSON API

Static, cached for an hour, CORS-enabled. Same fields as the MCP answers.

GET /api/tools.json: every verdict (54 tools)
GET /api/tools/1password.json: one tool
GET /api/categories.json: categories and their tools
/llms.txt: a plain-text map of the site for AI crawlers

Fair use

Use it for anything, including commercial products. Please link the tool’s Buildict page when you show a verdict, and keep the price check date with any price. Prices change; the API is updated when we re-check them.