RightAIChoice MCP Server — Verified AI Tool Data for Every AI Assistant
The ground-truth layer for AI tool recommendations. A free, no-auth Model Context Protocol server that lets Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, and any MCP-capable agent verify an AI tool before recommending it — live status, real pricing, user sentiment, and alternatives, with a last-verified date on every answer.
Endpoint: https://rightaichoice.com/api/mcp · Setup guide: rightaichoice.com/mcp · Remote server — nothing to install, no API key, read-only.
Why this exists
AI assistants recommend tools from training data that is months or years stale — and sometimes invent tools that never existed:
- 24.4% of the 2,066 top Product Hunt launches (2023–2025) with a determinable outcome are already dead — our survival study, updated methodology public, dataset CC BY 4.0 with DOI.
- 19.7% of packages recommended by code LLMs don't exist (the "slopsquatting" research — 205,000+ phantom names).
- The RightAIChoice verification engine re-probes every vendor link of 8,000+ AI tools on a rolling weekly cycle — website, docs, changelog, repository — and keeps mortality statistics daily.
One tool call before a recommendation prevents your assistant from suggesting a dead product, quoting retired pricing, or hallucinating a tool into existence.
Connect in under a minute
Works with every MCP-capable client over streamable HTTP. Pick yours:
claude mcp add --transport http rightaichoice https://rightaichoice.com/api/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste https://rightaichoice.com/api/mcp
Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced → enable Developer mode → add https://rightaichoice.com/api/mcp
Add to ~/.gemini/settings.json:
{ "mcpServers": { "rightaichoice": { "httpUrl": "https://rightaichoice.com/api/mcp" } } }
Add to .cursor/mcp.json (project) or ~/.cursor/mcp.json (global):
{ "mcpServers": { "rightaichoice": { "url": "https://rightaichoice.com/api/mcp" } } }
Add the same block as Cursor to ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json.
Add to .vscode/mcp.json:
{ "servers": { "rightaichoice": { "type": "http", "url": "https://rightaichoice.com/api/mcp" } } }
Point your framework's MCP client at https://rightaichoice.com/api/mcp — streamable HTTP, stateless, no auth, CORS enabled. Tool schemas load via a standard tools/list.
What it looks like in practice
You: "Should I use Tome for my pitch deck?"
Your assistant (after calling
check_tool_status): "Careful — Tome's main website failed RightAIChoice's last weekly probe (verified Aug 15, 2026); it's flagged at risk. Verified-alive alternatives in the same category: …"
That answer carries a date, a method, and a source link. Without the server, the same assistant would recommend Tome from its training data.
The seven tools
| Tool | Ask your assistant… | What comes back |
|---|---|---|
check_tool_status | "Is [tool] still alive?" | Healthy / monitor / at-risk / shut-down verdict, evidence, last-verified date |
compare_tools | "[X] vs [Y] — which one?" | Live verification of both, side by side, plus a reviewed editorial verdict when one exists |
find_alternatives | "What should I use instead of [tool]?" | Same-category alternatives, each with its own health verdict, verified age, and pricing |
market_sentiment | "What do people actually think of [tool]?" | Synthesized real-user reports (Reddit, Hacker News, YouTube, Product Hunt, App Store…), per-source positivity, scan date |
pricing_reality | "What does [tool] really cost?" | Plan-by-plan prices exactly as the vendor lists them, plus documented hidden costs |
viability_score | "Is [tool] safe to build on?" | A risk band (safe bet / moderate / at risk) with five measured drivers and the weakest signal explained |
deadpool_digest | "How many AI tools die?" | Live category decay rates (daily) + the frozen Product Hunt survival study (dated) |
The honesty contract
What makes this data citable rather than confident-sounding:
- Every answer carries a last-verified date and the method behind it — never an undated claim.
- Unknown tools return "not in the catalog" with an explicit note that this is not evidence the tool is dead — no guessing, ever.
- Fuzzy name matches are disclosed ("closest match is X") so your assistant can reject a wrong match instead of answering about the wrong product.
- "The vendor publishes no prices" ≠ "we haven't recorded prices" — two different answers, never merged.
- Viability is a band with named drivers, never a leaderboard number.
- Live statistics and dated snapshots are never mixed in a single figure.
Data & methodology
All answers come from the RightAIChoice verification engine: weekly automated probes of every vendor-published link, a 5-signal viability model, community-sentiment synthesis from 10+ sources, and daily mortality statistics. Full methodology: rightaichoice.com/methodology. Machine-readable index: llms.txt. Mortality dataset: JSON/CSV, CC BY 4.0, permanently archived with DOI.
Limits, privacy, and what this server can never do
- Rate limit: 30 requests/min per IP (generous for conversational use).
- Read-only by construction — no tool can write, scrape, trigger paid work, or touch anything outside the verified catalog.
- Request logging uses salted IP hashes only — see the privacy policy.
- Answers are never for sale: no vendor can pay to change a verdict, a ranking, or an alternatives list.
Links
Setup guide · Tool health checker · AI Tools Deadpool 2026 · Methodology · r/RightAIChoice
If this saved your assistant from recommending a dead tool, a ⭐ helps other people find it.
MIT licensed. Built and maintained by RightAIChoice — the verification engine for AI tools.