# `io.github.OptimNow/ai-pricing-hub` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.OptimNow/ai-pricing-hub
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.OptimNow/ai-pricing-hub
- Version: 0.4.2 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.OptimNow (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/OptimNow/ai-pricing-hub-mcp
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:18:33.322Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
OptimToken
Compare LLM API and cloud compute pricing, estimate workload costs, pick a model within budget.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:04:22.749Z over streamable-http.

**5 tools: 2 change things and 3 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 2 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 3 | allow |

## Exfil surface

No private-data -> untrusted-input -> outbound path in this server alone: no tool is tagged outbound.

| Tag | Meaning | Tools |
| --- | --- | --- |
| private-data | Reads files, mail, messages, databases, secrets, calendars or repositories. | `mcp__ai-pricing-hub__compare-llm-models` |
| untrusted-input | Brings in text someone else can write: web pages, inbound email, messages, issues and comments. | `mcp__ai-pricing-hub__compare-compute-pricing` `mcp__ai-pricing-hub__compare-llm-models` `mcp__ai-pricing-hub__compare-models-side-by-side` `mcp__ai-pricing-hub__estimate-llm-cost` `mcp__ai-pricing-hub__recommend-llm-model` |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | none |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Changes things (2)

Creates or changes something that can be changed back. Claude Code: ask.

### `estimate-llm-cost`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Cost a workload with EXACT numbers the caller supplies: arbitrary token counts per request and any monthly volume, not just the 10k/100k/1m presets the other cost tools use. Use this for 'about 800 in and 200 out, 4 million calls a month', or to price one named model across every use-case profile. To compare 2-4 named models like for like at a preset volume, use compare-models-side-by-side instead. Provide a model name to get detailed cost breakdowns, or compare costs across all use case presets. Each figure comes twice: list price, and the optimized price achievable with prompt caching and the batch API. Cost figures are final as returned: rounded server-side and dated by `provenance`, with the lever behind each saving, or the reason there is none, named in the text.
```

### `recommend-llm-model`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Pick a model. Returns a ranked top 3 for one workload under optional constraints, each with a per-constraint satisfied/violated breakdown as the evidence. Use this when the user wants an ANSWER rather than a table — 'what should I use for support tickets under $500 a month'. To browse or filter the whole catalogue instead, use compare-llm-models. Constraints: (monthly budget, minimum ELO, required capability, self-hostability). Returns a top 3 as structured facts — efficiency rank, ELO, list and optimized cost, FinOps flag, volatility, and a per-constraint satisfied/violated breakdown. When nothing satisfies every constraint the query is reported as over-constrained, `recommendations` is empty, and the nearest misses are returned in `nearMisses` instead, each carrying the constraint it failed and flagged as a miss in the text. The ranking is computed server-side and is final.
```

## Only reads (3)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `compare-compute-pricing`

- The name "compare-compute-pricing" says "compare": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Compare cloud compute instance pricing across AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean, OCI, OVH, and Alibaba. Filter by region, provider, vCPUs, memory, category, processor, or use case. All prices are Linux on-demand list prices in USD. Not every price column is live: `provenance.priceTypes` says which of each provider's price columns come from a live API, which are static constants, and which are unavailable, and `provenance.staticPriceColumns` lists the non-live ones outright; a savings-plan or reserved rate that appears there is a static estimate, not a live quote. Prices are returned as the catalogue serves them and dated by `provenance`.
```

### `compare-llm-models`

- The name "compare-llm-models" says "compare": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "browse" and "table": it reads databases.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data. The description's first sentence says "browse": it reads web pages, which anyone can write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Browse and filter the whole LLM catalogue and get back a ranked table: price, quality (ELO), efficiency and capabilities. Use this when the user wants to SEE THE FIELD — 'show me models under $1/1M', 'which providers have vision models', 'list open-weight models above ELO 1300'. For a single PICK under a budget use recommend-llm-model; to weigh 2-4 NAMED models against each other use compare-models-side-by-side. Prices come from optimtoken.optimnow.io where reachable; the response's `provenance` says which tier served them and whether they are vendor-verified. Filter by provider, price tier (category), openness, capability, price range, or minimum ELO score. Optionally enrich with business metrics for a use case. Price tier and openness are independent: a model can be Frontier-priced and open-weight at once. Reports both list-price cost and the optimized cost achievable with prompt caching and the batch API. Prices, costs and scores are final as returned: rounded and ranked server-side, and dated by `provenance`. The text block is a numbered table of the same figures.
```

### `compare-models-side-by-side`

- The name "compare-models-side-by-side" says "compare": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Compare 2-4 named LLM models against all 8 use-case profiles at a chosen monthly volume, showing list and optimized cost for each. Use when the user names specific models to weigh against each other, rather than filtering the whole catalogue. If they also supply their own token counts, or a volume outside 10k/100k/1m, use estimate-llm-cost instead. Every name is resolved against the catalogue and the outcome is reported in `resolution` and in the text: a name that matched nothing, matched several models, or duplicated an earlier pick is stated explicitly, and such a name gets no column rather than a zero cost. Prices and costs are final as returned: rounded server-side and dated by `provenance`.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `ai-pricing-hub`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__ai-pricing-hub__compare-llm-models",
      "mcp__ai-pricing-hub__compare-models-side-by-side",
      "mcp__ai-pricing-hub__compare-compute-pricing"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__ai-pricing-hub__estimate-llm-cost",
      "mcp__ai-pricing-hub__recommend-llm-model"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

Capability tags behind the rules (a read tagged outbound is asked about):

- `mcp__ai-pricing-hub__compare-llm-models`: private-data, untrusted-input
- `mcp__ai-pricing-hub__estimate-llm-cost`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__ai-pricing-hub__compare-models-side-by-side`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__ai-pricing-hub__recommend-llm-model`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__ai-pricing-hub__compare-compute-pricing`: untrusted-input

## Remote posture

What an anonymous client saw at the remote endpoint, last 2026-10-22T14:53:56.022Z, unchanged since 2026-10-22T14:53:56.022Z. No credentials were sent and no tool was called. Values are shown as the endpoint returned them. Method: https://anlyon.dev/methodology#remote-posture

| Fact | Observed |
| --- | --- |
| Reachable | `yes` |
| HTTP status of an anonymous initialize | `200` |
| tools/list served without credentials | `yes` |
| Tools that change things, listed without credentials | `2` |
| Protocol version | `2025-06-18` |
| WWW-Authenticate on 401 | `not observed` |
| resource_metadata in WWW-Authenticate | `none` |
| RFC 9728 protected resource metadata | `none` |
| Authorization servers | `none` |
| Legacy HTTP+SSE transport | `no` |
| Dynamic client registration | `not observed` |
| Client ID metadata documents | `not observed` |

- **warn** Tools that change things, listed to anyone ([unauth-remote-writes](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#unauth-remote-writes))

```untrusted-server-text
The endpoint served tools/list without credentials, and the list has 2 tools that change things (2 write). Whether a call also works without credentials was not tested: tools are never called.

https://optimtoken-mcp.optimnow.io/mcp: tools/list returned 5 tools to an anonymous client, including estimate-llm-cost (write), recommend-llm-model (write)
```