PricePilot
PricePilot MCP Server
Free Amazon pricing intelligence for multi-channel CPG brands, exposed as a Model Context Protocol server. Six read-only tools over weekly Buy Box scans across Grocery, Health & Beauty, Household, and Pet Supplies.
A free alternative to NielsenIQ / SPINS syndicated category data — accessible from any MCP client (Claude Desktop, Claude.ai, Cursor, Continue, agent frameworks).
What it does
Given a price and a category, the server answers questions like:
- Where does this Amazon price sit against 100+ tracked competitors?
- Is the category trending up, stable, or falling over the last 30 days?
- What are the budget / midmarket / premium price bands?
- How do these N SKUs stack against each other on the shelf?
The server returns derived statistics only — percentile rank, Price Index, trend direction, tier bands. No raw competitor prices are exposed.
Connect
Hosted endpoint (no install)
{
"mcpServers": {
"pricepilot": {
"url": "https://pricepilot-mcp.onrender.com/mcp"
}
}
}
No API key. Rate limited to 60 requests/minute, 1000/day.
Claude Desktop (one-click, recommended)
Use the official .mcpb extension at https://github.com/vantage-meridian-group/pricepilot-mcpb/releases/latest — drag-and-drop into Claude Desktop.
Local stdio (for development)
pip install -e .
DATABASE_URL=postgresql://... python -m pricepilot_mcp
Tools
| Tool | What it returns |
|---|---|
get_price_position | Percentile rank, Price Index, position (Value / Parity / Premium) for a single price |
get_category_trend | 30-day trend direction (Rising / Stable / Falling) with sample size |
get_category_overview | Tier breakdown (budget / midmarket / premium bands) and median |
compare_products | Per-SKU stack rank for a list of products against the category |
list_categories | Available categories with product counts and trend — call this first |
server_status | Health and data freshness (degraded if seed is >10 days old) |
All tools are readOnlyHint=true, destructiveHint=false, openWorldHint=false.
Categories
Refreshed weekly from Amazon Buy Box scans:
- Grocery & Gourmet Food
- Health & Beauty
- Household
- Pet Supplies
Architecture
- FastMCP with Streamable HTTP and stdio transports
- SQLAlchemy + PostgreSQL for benchmark snapshots (read-only from the server's perspective)
- Rate-limited per-consumer with daily and per-minute buckets
- Dockerfile included; deploys to any container host (production runs on Render)
Run with Docker
docker build -t pricepilot-mcp .
docker run -p 8081:8081 -e DATABASE_URL=postgresql://... pricepilot-mcp
Operator note
The MCP server is the free, category-level surface of PricePilot. Per-SKU pricing recommendations (R1 price-alignment is live; R2 / R3 / R5 expanding through Q2) are delivered via the paid platform at https://app.pricepilot.vantagemeridiangroup.com.
License
MIT — see LICENSE.
Server Config
{
"mcpServers": {
"pricepilot": {
"url": "https://pricepilot-mcp.onrender.com/mcp"
}
}
}