The latest articles on DEV Community by imviky-ctrl (@imvikyctrl). https://dev.to/imvikyctrl https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3874896%2F181c1f51-0867-4880-a71e-64e2b4578942.png https://dev.to/imvikyctrl en imviky-ctrl Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:18:14 +0000 https://dev.to/imvikyctrl/i-built-an-mcp-server-that-tells-claude-when-chatgpt-is-down-and-how-much-it-costs-4dcf https://dev.to/imvikyctrl/i-built-an-mcp-server-that-tells-claude-when-chatgpt-is-down-and-how-much-it-costs-4dcf <p>Every developer using AI tools has hit this at some point:</p> <p>You open Claude or Cursor, something feels slow or broken, and you spend 10 minutes wondering if it's your code, your network, or the<br> service itself. Then you go check a status page. Then you check another one. Then you give up.</p> <p>I built <a href="https://tickerr.ai" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tickerr</a> to solve this — independent uptime monitoring for 42+ AI tools, updated every 5 minutes. Today I'm<br> releasing the MCP server so your AI assistant can answer these questions <em>for you</em>, mid-conversation.</p> <p>## What it does</p> <p>The Tickerr MCP server gives Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf direct access to:</p> <ul> <li> <strong>Live status</strong> — is any AI tool up or down right now?</li> <li> <strong>Uptime history</strong> — 30-day and 90-day uptime percentages</li> <li> <strong>Incidents</strong> — last 90 days of outages from 26 official provider status pages</li> <li> <strong>API pricing</strong> — current cost per 1M tokens across all major models</li> <li> <strong>Rate limits</strong> — plan-by-plan limits for any AI tool</li> <li> <strong>Free tier comparison</strong> — best free plans by category</li> </ul> <p>No API key. No signup. Just install and ask.</p> <p>## Install in 30 seconds</p> <p><strong>Claude Code:</strong><br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight shell"><code> claude mcp add tickerr <span class="nt">--transport</span> http <span class="nt">--url</span> https://tickerr.ai/mcp </code></pre> </div> <p><br> json<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code> Cursor / Windsurf — add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json: { "mcpServers": { "tickerr": { "url": "https://tickerr.ai/mcp" } } } </code></pre> </div> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code> Claude Desktop — add to claude_desktop_config.json: { "mcpServers": { "tickerr": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "tickerr-mcp"] } } } </code></pre> </div> <p>What you can now ask your AI assistant </p> <p>Once installed, you can ask things like:</p> <p>▎ "Is Claude down right now?" </p> <p>▎ "What's the cheapest model for processing 100K input tokens and 10K output tokens?" </p> <p>▎ "Has OpenAI had any incidents this month?" </p> <p>▎ "What are Cursor's rate limits on the Pro plan?" </p> <p>▎ "Compare Claude Haiku vs GPT-4o Mini for a high-volume use case" </p> <p>▎ "Which coding AI tools have a free tier?" </p> <p>Your assistant will call the live Tickerr API and answer with real data — not training data from months ago.<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code> The 7 tools exposed ┌─────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Tool │ What it does │ ├─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ get_tool_status │ Live status + uptime % for any AI tool │ ├─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ get_incidents │ Historical incidents from the last 90 days │ ├─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ get_api_pricing │ Current pricing per model, cheapest first │ ├─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ get_rate_limits │ Plan-by-plan rate limits │ ├─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ compare_pricing │ Rank models by cost for your token workload │ ├─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ get_free_tier │ Best free plans by category │ ├─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ list_tools │ All 42+ monitored tools with slugs │ └─────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────┘ </code></pre> </div> <p>How it works under the hood </p> <p>The MCP server is available two ways: </p> <ol> <li>HTTP endpoint at <a href="https://tickerr.ai/mcp" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://tickerr.ai/mcp</a> — implements the MCP Streamable HTTP transport, so Claude Code and Cursor can connect directly with no local process </li> <li>npm package tickerr-mcp — stdio transport via npx, for clients that don't support HTTP transport yet </li> </ol> <p>The HTTP endpoint is a Next.js App Router route handler that implements the MCP JSON-RPC protocol manually — no extra dependencies, just the<br> existing Supabase queries the site already uses. Each tool call hits the database directly and returns formatted markdown. </p> <p>Data is sourced from: </p> <ul> <li>Status: independent HTTP checks every 5 minutes</li> <li>Incidents: 26 official provider status pages (Statuspage, Atlassian, etc.) </li> <li>Pricing: daily scrapes from official provider documentation </li> <li>Rate limits: manually maintained, updated when providers announce changes </li> </ul> <p>Links </p> <ul> <li>Install: claude mcp add tickerr --transport http --url <a href="https://tickerr.ai/mcp" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://tickerr.ai/mcp</a> </li> <li>npm: tickerr-mcp</li> <li>GitHub: imviky-ctrl/tickerr-mcp </li> <li>Web dashboard: tickerr.ai </li> <li>Smithery: tickerr-live-status </li> </ul> <p>If you try it, let me know what tools or data you'd want added.</p> ai mcp claude webdev