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RateCard Health MCP server

Which MCP servers are RateCard Health's own, from the official registry and from asking its own domain, whether they answer, and what they offer. A program checked each of these, nobody copied them from a product page.

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Whose server it is
  • Registry namecom.ratecardhealth/rate-cardsverified in the MCP registry

The registry name sits under ratecardhealth.com. The registry only lets a publisher use that namespace after proving control of the domain through DNS or HTTP.

When we asked itchecked 2026-11-02
  • Stateanswerschecked 2026-11-02
  • Tools5
  • Server calls itselfratecardhealth
  • Server version1.0.0
  • Protocol version2025-06-18

On 2026-11-02 the server answered initialize and tools/list without a sign-in. First answer in 73 ms.

Should an agent connect itNot proven either way yet
  • Whether its tools do the product's job has not been judged yet.
  • Checked on 3 of the 7 days it takes to judge reliability.

Once connected

  • For "benchmark cost per thousand across healthcare newsletters", the likely first call is get_price_index.
  • Parameters are untyped or undescribed in 2 of 5 tools: check arguments before calling.

Said by rules from the measurements above. The likely first call is a model's pick from the tool list; read its description before relying on it.

Measured dailydaily checks: 3, the first on 2026-11-02
  • INITE MCP scoreafter a weeka score needs 7 daily checks: 3 so far
  • Answeredmeasuring3 of the 7 daily checks it takes to print a share
  • Median first answer133 ms
  • Space in an agent's context≈ 651 tokensthe definitions of all its tools (5), which an agent carries on every turn
  • Tool definitionsA · 93 of 100
  • Typed results0 of 5 toolsdeclared outputSchema: results come typed, read once
  • Parameters without a description: in 2 of 5

What an agent can do with it

  • not sure · compare healthcare trade publication ad rates side by side
  • can do · benchmark cost per thousand across healthcare newsletters
  • not sure · check rate card sources before signing an insertion order

Each of the product's use cases, put to Jev against this server's tool list: can an agent do it with these tools?

Worth a look

None of the five warning signs in these definitions.

A program checks the server once a day: initialize and tools/list, no model. Tokens are the definitions' length at about four characters a token. The grade averages six checks of every tool's name, description, schema and annotations; it says how well the tools are described, not whether they work. The score weighs what was measured and nothing else: answering (25%), doing the product's job (25%), definitions (20%), context (10%), use (10%) and how readily a client connects (10%). A part that was not measured is left out, and a hidden instruction caps the score at 40. The state of vendors' MCP servers: method and numbers →

Tools it offers5 tools · read 2026-11-02
  • search_publications

    Search the RateCard Health index of healthcare B2B trade publications, association e-newsletters and journals that publish advertising rate cards. Filter by category (e.g. dental, pharmacy, nursing, health IT), format (e-newsletter…

  • get_publication

    Public details for one publication: publisher, audience, circulation, open rate/CTR, entry ad unit with price band, names of other ad units, rate-card year, last verified date, official media kit link and page URL. Look up by slug or…

  • get_price_index

    Aggregate ad-price benchmarks (CC BY 4.0) across healthcare B2B rate cards: median/quartile entry prices and derived CPMs (rounded, or banded; medians only for groups with 5+ rate cards), by format, category and price band. Optionally…

  • get_free_sample

    The 10 free sample rows of the RateCard Health database (full fields, exact prices) — the same rows as the public sample CSV.

  • list_categories

    List the publication categories and format groups covered, with counts and page URLs.

How to connect

Add the server to your MCP client config. Claude Desktop, Cursor and most other clients read this shape:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rate-cards": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Add it

Claude Code, in a terminal

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

Add to CursorAdd to VS Code

claude.ai, ChatGPT and other clients: add https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp as a custom connector in the settings.

Each line is something a program found when it went looking: the registry entry, the server's own answer, a spec that parses. A missing line means we did not find it, not that it does not exist.