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SwitchWize MCP

by switchwizeversion 0.3.0i★ –iComputer or cloud
Registry nameio.github.switchwize/switchwize-mcp

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Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

Sixteen read-only US rate, savings-gap, Fed, card and CD tools with sources and freshness.

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What you can do with it

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Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

Before you install

You need

  • Runs in the cloudNothing to install; it connects over the internet
  • npmNode.js installed (for the npx command)

Which app do you use?

Pick your app above. We remember it, so next time the button says “Install in …”.

Works in Claude on the web, desktop and mobile:

  1. Open Settings → Connectors
  2. Press Add custom connector
  3. Paste the address below and press Add
  4. If it asks you to sign in, sign in with the maker
SettingsConnectors1+ Add2https://…3
https://www.switchwize.com/api/mcp

Or run it on your computer

Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Developer → Edit Config, and paste this into claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "switchwize": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "switchwize-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add --transport http switchwize https://www.switchwize.com/api/mcp

Or run it on your computer

claude mcp add switchwize -- npx -y switchwize-mcp

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "switchwize": {
      "url": "https://www.switchwize.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Or run it on your computer

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "switchwize": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "switchwize-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "switchwize": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.switchwize.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Or run it on your computer

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "switchwize": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "switchwize-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

ChatGPT connects only to servers on the internet:

  1. Open ChatGPT on the web → Settings → Connectors (Apps)
  2. Press Create or Add (some plans need Developer mode under Advanced first)
  3. Paste the address below, give it a name and save
  4. If it asks you to sign in, sign in with the maker
SettingsConnectors1+ Create2https://…3
https://www.switchwize.com/api/mcp

Menu names can differ slightly by plan and over time.

Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.

These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.

What it can do

Tool names and descriptions exactly as the server reported them on Nov 8, 2026. The maker wrote them, not us; we show them as plain text.

  • get_top_rates

    Return top SwitchWize rates with freshness and attribution. Savings, CDs, checking and money market answer only from their editor-approved snapshot. A category with no approved release yet returns no ranked rates and says so (approval_status: not_yet_approved) rather than serving

  • get_top_hysa_rates

    Return top high-yield savings rates with freshness and attribution. Answers only from the editor-approved snapshot; before its first release it returns no ranked rates and says so (approval_status: not_yet_approved). approvedOnly makes the requirement explicit. detail=full adds e

  • get_bank_gap

    Estimate annual savings interest forgone for a supplied balance and optional bank name. comparisonApy is the average of the top three tracked savings rates, not an average across all banks; bankCount is the size of the tracked set. baselineApy is the named bank's APY, or the nati

  • compare_switch_savings

    Compare a user's current APY with SwitchWize's current top savings APY for a balance.

  • get_rate_freshness

    Return public data source freshness status and affected routes. savings is an alias for hysa; money-market is an alias for mma. Also supports cds, checking, macro, bank-gap-index, and indices. Omit category for all supported sources. Unknown categories return an error; a source w

  • get_index_dataset

    Return a SwitchWize index dataset summary and recent series.

  • get_bank_gap_index

    Return the current SwitchWize Bank Gap Index headline value, latest release, and methodology URL.

  • get_reality_score

    Estimate the modeled annual value of a supported premium credit card for a consumer segment. Supply a card slug or name and optionally a segment ID; the default is occasional-traveler. Return segment assumptions, score, rewards, credits, perks, fee, interest, friction, net value,

  • get_card_offers

    Return current credit-card welcome-bonus offers (non-targeted, confidence-gated), each with a verified timestamp, source URL, and the card's own 12-month best.

  • get_transfer_bonuses

    Return current point-transfer bonuses across tracked bank-to-partner routes, each with a verified timestamp, source URL, and best-ever-for-route when real history exists.

  • get_card_changes

    Return recent verified credit-card fee and APR changes, most recent first. Each event is a diff between two confirmed snapshots of the same card.

  • get_reward_valuations

    Return SwitchWize points/miles valuations (cents per point) per reward currency, with sample size and provisional/published status.

  • best_move_this_week

    Given the credit cards a user holds, rank this week's dollar-valued actions: which held card to use per spend category, welcome offers at a 12-month high on cards not held, active transfer bonuses, and (optionally) the savings-rate move beside the card move.

  • get_cd_rollover_rules

    Return verified CD rollover rules for one bank, or every bank SwitchWize has verified: what happens automatically at maturity if the customer does nothing, the grace period, how to stop the rollover, and the early-withdrawal penalty. Each fact is sourced directly from the bank's

  • get_card_downgrade_path

    Return verified credit-card product-change (downgrade) paths and the issuer's fee-refund window: which no-fee or lower-fee card a given card can be product-changed to, and how long after the annual fee posts a refund is available on cancellation. Optionally filtered to one card i

  • get_fed_hike_pass_through

    Return how much of the latest Federal Reserve rate hike each tracked savings account has passed through to savers so far: rate before the hike, rate now, change in basis points, pass-through share, and days until the bank moved. One source per bank; each row carries its source ty

  • compare_accounts

    Compare two to five named banks on the editor-approved rates for savings, money market, checking or CDs (CDs by termMonths, default 12). For a balance, return each bank's APY, yearly interest, the gap to the best bank in your set and to the best verified rate, with verified date

  • business_card_cost

    Estimate yearly rewards minus annual, foreign and late fees for four small-business credit cards, given monthly spend, spend in the bonus category, share of spend abroad and late payments per year. Fees come from issuer pages a reviewer read and quoted; a fee with no current quot

Basic checksi

We check information anyone can see; we have not read the code. Checks that do not apply are left out of the count. · Checked Nov 8, 2026

  • ✓ Pass

    Maker matches the repo

    The registry name was verified with the GitHub account switchwize, which owns the repo

  • … Not checked yet

    Still maintained

    We have not read this repo from GitHub yet

  • … Not checked yet

    Has a licence

    We have not read this repo from GitHub yet

  • ✓ Pass

    Endpoint responds

    Responded in 282 ms (HTTP 200)

  • – Not applicable

    Sign-in with OAuth

    No sign-in needed

  • ✓ Pass

    No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

    Read 18 tool descriptions and found no hidden instructions to the AI

Compared with others in Otheri

  • More stars than 0% of the other 18495 servers in this category
  • Published to the registry more recently than 63% of the other 18495 servers in this category
  • Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 18495 servers in this category

Compared with every active server in this category in the registry. Stars count only when the publisher owns the repo.

Common questions

Is SwitchWize MCP safe?

It passed 3 of 3 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

The registry does not list a required key, though some servers ask you to sign in on first use.

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

Either way works: install it on your computer or connect to the cloud version.

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (0.3.0) reached the registry 26 days ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. It connects by URL, so apps that accept remote MCP servers work too, such as ChatGPT in developer mode.

What can I use instead?

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README from the maker

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SwitchWize MCP client

Read-only MCP tools for U.S. rates, savings comparisons, financial indexes, card offers and changes, rewards, CD rollover rules, and downgrade paths.

Connect now

For clients supporting Streamable HTTP, use the hosted endpoint:

https://www.switchwize.com/api/mcp

No SwitchWize account or API key is required. The API is rate-limited. Documentation: SwitchWize Developers.

Gemini CLI extension

Install from the public repository:

gemini extensions install https://github.com/switchwize/switchwize-mcp

Restart Gemini CLI, then use /mcp list to confirm that switchwize is connected and exposes all 16 tools. The extension uses Gemini CLI's native Streamable HTTP transport; no separate local MCP process, SwitchWize account, or API key is needed. Gemini CLI itself requires its own supported authentication and runtime setup.

Try: "Use SwitchWize to compare current U.S. high-yield savings observations. Include source URLs and as-of dates, and flag stale or unavailable data."

The extension covers U.S. deposit and card research, excluding mortgages. Review GEMINI.md for source, freshness, and privacy guidance. Installing this extension enables your Gemini CLI to use the tools; it does not enable them for other Gemini users or designate SwitchWize as a Google Search data source.

Google's extension gallery discovers public repositories with a root gemini-extension.json and the gemini-cli-extension GitHub topic. Gallery discovery and installation are separate from consumer usage.

Run the stdio client from source

Use a supported Node.js LTS release and npm:

git clone https://github.com/switchwize/switchwize-mcp.git

cd switchwize-mcp npm ci --ignore-scripts npm run build npm start

For a desktop MCP client, configure command node with the absolute path to dist/index.js as its argument. No environment file or database credentials are needed. SWITCHWIZE_MCP_URL is an optional full MCP endpoint override for developers.

Run from npm

npx -y switchwize-mcp@0.3.0

For a desktop MCP client, configure command npx with arguments ["-y", "switchwize-mcp@0.3.0"]. No API key is required.

The source bridge and package manifest now use 0.3.0, matching the published npm bridge. Building this repository does not republish the existing npm version.

Available tools

  • get_top_rates
  • get_top_hysa_rates
  • get_bank_gap
  • compare_switch_savings
  • get_rate_freshness
  • get_index_dataset
  • get_bank_gap_index
  • get_reality_score
  • get_card_offers
  • get_transfer_bonuses
  • get_card_changes
  • get_reward_valuations
  • best_move_this_week
  • get_cd_rollover_rules
  • get_card_downgrade_path
  • get_fed_hike_pass_through

The hosted server currently discovers 16 tools, three prompts, and four resources. The source-built stdio bridge forwards the hosted tool schemas and annotations, prompts, resources, structured results and tool error status.

The client connects to /api/mcp using Streamable HTTP and exposes that catalog over stdio. It does not initiate financial transactions or request bank credentials. Balance inputs supplied to tools are transmitted to the hosted API; do not include account numbers or other sensitive identifiers.

Validate a source checkout

npm run verify:package checks the build and package contents without publishing. npm run verify:live compares the source bridge's tools, prompts and resources with the public hosted service and performs a hypothetical Bank Gap call. It requires network access and contributes internal acceptance traffic; it does not establish independent user adoption or verify every upstream data source.

npm run verify:gemini -- verifies all 16 tools using Gemini CLI 0.66.0's own MCP discovery, input-schema validation, and invocation code. Set GEMINI_CLI_PACKAGE_DIR to an installed @google/gemini-cli@0.66.0 package directory. Optionally set SWITCHWIZE_GEMINI_MANIFEST to the manifest from an installed extension to validate that exact configuration. Keep validation in a separate GEMINI_CLI_HOME so it does not alter your normal Gemini settings.

This check makes live read-only calls with hypothetical inputs, labels its requests as internal probes, records freshness states without treating stale or unavailable data as current, and checks the other three deposit categories. It does not make an LLM request or establish consumer adoption. See the dated Gemini release validation.

Data boundaries

Observations may be aggregator-sourced and may be aging. Preserve each response's source dates and freshness labels. Monthly index data is not a current offer. Confirm product terms directly with the provider before making a decision.

Savings-gap figures are hypothetical estimates. The comparison benchmark is the average of the top three tracked savings rates, not an average across every tracked bank. Card Reality Scores model a consumer segment's assumptions and may carry stale terms; they are not personalized advice or guaranteed benefits.

Attribute data as SwitchWize (switchwize.com). The MIT license covers this client software, not upstream datasets, third-party materials, or trademarks. See data and service terms.

Package verification

npm run verify:package builds the client and checks the npm tarball against an exact allowlist: LICENSE, README.md, dist/index.js, and package.json. npm pack creates a local tarball; neither command publishes it.

License: MIT. Copyright SW Digital Holdings LLC.

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