# StackRates VPS prices

> VPS prices read daily from providers' own pricing pages and APIs: cheapest by size, place or app.

- name: ai.stackrates/vps-prices
- version: 1.0.0
- connection class: unknown (unknown)
- trust: 61/100 flags: no-repository
- quality: 81/100 (new)
- owner: not claimed
- descriptor: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/ai.stackrates%2Fvps-prices
- tools: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/ai.stackrates%2Fvps-prices/tools

**Not classified yet.** The remote endpoints have not been probed successfully, or the listing has nothing to connect to.

## Connection (mcpServers)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vps-prices": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://stackrates.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```


## Trust

- hygiene: 80
- liveness: 28
- freshness: 100
- provenance: 55
- drivers: +dns-namespace +website -unreachable(1 failures) +updated-6d-ago -no-repository
- Derived from observable signals (official registry feed and our own credential-free probes); no code audit performed.

## Quality 81/100 (new)

### protocol: 75 (weight 25)

- warn `protocol.modern`: newest supported version is 2025-06-18; 2026-07-28 not supported, older versions are deprecated until 2027-07-28
- n/a `protocol.stateless`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers
- pass `protocol.transport`: streamable HTTP
- n/a `protocol.list_ttl`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers

### authorization: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `auth.prm`, `auth.as_metadata`, `auth.cimd`: no remote uses OAuth
- n/a `auth.secret_in_url`: no templated URL

### tool hygiene: 86 (weight 30)

- pass `tools.descriptions`: every tool has a description
- pass `tools.description_length`: descriptions are concise
- pass `tools.schemas`: every tool has an object input schema
- pass `tools.annotations`: 5 of 5 tools declare readOnlyHint or destructiveHint
- fail `tools.directory_hints`: no tool declares all four of readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint; missing: current_vps_offers (destructiveHint, idempotentHint); search_vps_plans (destructiveHint, idempotentHint); server_for_app (destructiveHint, idempotentHint); …
- pass `tools.token_cost`: about 1,019 tokens to load every tool
- pass `tools.api_dump`: tools are not a one-to-one API dump

### stability: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `stability.changes`, `stability.rug_pull`: tool history recorded for 6 of the 7 days needed

### dependencies: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `deps.known_vulns`, `deps.mcp_sdk_version`, `deps.resolvable`: no npm or PyPI package

- tools: 5, about 1,019 tokens to load them all
- tool set hash: 0d214dd1b1d15ad17f5ea3e5ba18c513
- tools last changed: 2026-10-15T07:56:24.902Z
- badge: [![protogrid quality](https://protogrid.dev/badge/ai.stackrates/vps-prices.svg)](https://protogrid.dev/servers/ai.stackrates/vps-prices)
- Checks run on what our credential-free, read-only probes observe; tools are never called and no code audit is performed.

### Tool changes

- 2026-10-15 `advise_vps_choice` added
  - A messy buying question in plain words ("moving WordPress and a small Postgres app off a $40 box, I am in Germany, no yearly contract") answered from today’s prices: how the question was read (editable filter), the matching plans with their cost over the term, two to four sentences on the trade-offs written only from those rows, and what the data cannot answer. Pass the previous answer’s `filter` to continue a conversation. Every number comes from the dataset; the first line says whether a small language model or the rule parser read the question.
- 2026-10-15 `server_for_app` changed (inputSchema)
- 2026-10-15 `search_vps_plans` changed (inputSchema)

Full history: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/ai.stackrates%2Fvps-prices/changes

## Remotes

- https://stackrates.ai/mcp (streamable-http, auth none, reachable false, uptime30d 0.96)

## Packages

_none_

## Tools (5)

- `advise_vps_choice`: A messy buying question in plain words ("moving WordPress and a small Postgres app off a $40 box, I am in Germany, no yearly contract") answered from today’s prices: how the question was read (editable filter), the matching plans with their cost over the term, two to four sentences on the trade-offs written only from those rows, and what the data cannot answer. Pass the previous answer’s `filter` to continue a conversation. Every number comes from the dataset; the first line says whether a small language model or the rule parser read the question.
- `ask_vps_prices`: Answer a plain-language hosting price question ("cheapest 4 GB VPS in Germany under $10", "hetzner vs vultr", "server for a Minecraft Java server") from today’s prices.
- `current_vps_offers`: Introductory and sale prices on the providers’ own pages today, each judged on its first year against the cheapest regular plan with as much memory.
- `search_vps_plans`: Cheapest VPS plans matching a size, budget, provider or location, cheapest first (one per provider unless exactly one provider is given).
- `server_for_app`: The documented requirements of a self-hosted app or game server (n8n, Nextcloud AIO, Immich, Minecraft Java, Odoo, GitLab, ... 192 apps) and the cheapest plans that meet them.