cityparity — Cost-of-Living & Quality-of-Life Comparison

Name: cityparity — Cost-of-Living & Quality-of-Life Comparison
Author: summerstateofmind

by summerstateofmindversion 0.1.0i★ –iRuns in the cloud

Registry namecom.cityparity/cityparity

Install

Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

Cost-of-living & quality-of-life comparison: take-home pay, equivalent salary, safety-net deltas.

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What you can do with it

We have not written a plain-language summary for this one yet. Below are the facts we read from the registry.

Connection: Runs in the cloud
Transport: Streamable HTTP
Category: Other

Install

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

Before you install

Basic checks: 1 of 1 passed
Runs on the maker’s server: what you ask it goes through their server.
The registry lists no key to fill in.

You need

Runs in the cloudNothing to install; it connects over the internet

Which app do you use?

ClaudeClaude CodeCursorVS CodeChatGPT

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

Works in Claude on the web, desktop and mobile:

Open Settings → Connectors
Press Add custom connector
Paste the address below and press Add
If it asks you to sign in, sign in with the maker

https://mcp.cityparity.com/mcp

Run this in your terminal

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

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cityparity": {
      "url": "https://mcp.cityparity.com/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": {
    "cityparity": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.cityparity.com/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:

Open ChatGPT on the web → Settings → Connectors (Apps)
Press Create or Add (some plans need Developer mode under Advanced first)
Paste the address below, give it a name and save
If it asks you to sign in, sign in with the maker

https://mcp.cityparity.com/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

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Basic checksi

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Maker matches the repo
The registry name was verified against the domain cityparity.com (the registry checks domain ownership)
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Still maintained
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Has a licence
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Endpoint responds
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Sign-in with OAuth
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No hidden instructions in tool descriptions
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Compared with others in Otheri

More stars than 0% of the other 32599 servers in this category
Published to the registry more recently than 11% of the other 32599 servers in this category
Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 32599 servers in this category

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Common questions

Is cityparity — Cost-of-Living & Quality-of-Life Comparison safe?

It passed 1 of 1 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?

It runs in the maker’s cloud. Connect over the internet with nothing to install, but what you send passes through the maker’s servers.

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (0.1.0) reached the registry 5 months 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?

In the same category: Spec Driven Development, Remote Desktop Commander, Zendesk

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README from the maker

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cityparity MCP server

Cost-of-living and quality-of-life comparison tools that AI agents can call. Point an agent at two cities and it returns take-home pay, a full cost breakdown, the equivalent salary you'd need in the target city, and the non-cash deltas people actually move for: vacation, parental leave, universal healthcare.

Hosted at `https://mcp.cityparity.com/mcp`. Free, no API key, rate-limited at the edge. Built on the Model Context Protocol (spec 2025-06-18, Streamable HTTP).

Site: https://cityparity.com
Install docs (every client): https://cityparity.com/mcp
Machine-readable docs: https://mcp.cityparity.com/llms.txt
OpenAPI (REST mirror): https://mcp.cityparity.com/openapi.json

What it covers

About 165 cities across 69 countries. Most calculators stop at salary and rent. cityparity prices the social safety net (childcare subsidies, parental leave, statutory vacation, universal healthcare), so "the lower-salary city actually pays more" stops being a hand-wave and becomes a number.

Tools

Tool	What it does
`compare_cities`	Full scenario comparison between two cities: take-home, cost breakdown, equivalent target salary, lifestyle deltas, quality score.
`list_cities`	Discover supported city slugs, grouped by country.
`get_city_summary`	One-city profile: tax shape, headline costs, safety-net values.
`rank_cities`	Top N cities by composite quality score, with custom weights and region/country filters.
`get_safety_net`	Parental leave, universal-healthcare flag, vacation, public holidays for 1 to 20 cities.
`get_inbound_tax_regime`	Inbound-worker regimes: Italy impatriati, Portugal IFICI, Belgium expat, Poland B2B ryczałt, Greece inbound.

City slugs are kebab-case (san-francisco, hong-kong). Call list_cities first if you're unsure.

Connect

Most modern clients speak Streamable HTTP and need no install. Just point them at the URL.

Claude Code

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

Claude Desktop / ChatGPT Desktop

"mcpServers": { "cityparity": { "url": "https://mcp.cityparity.com/mcp" } } }

Claude Desktop config lives at ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows). ChatGPT Desktop uses …/OpenAI/ChatGPT/mcp.json. Restart the app after editing.

Cursor

"name": "cityparity", "url": "https://mcp.cityparity.com/mcp" }

Codex CLI

mcpServers:

cityparity: url: https://mcp.cityparity.com/mcp

Stdio-only clients (this package)

If your client can't do HTTP MCP yet, the npm package in this repo bridges stdio → HTTP:

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

The bridge (this package)

cityparity-mcp is a ~150-line stdio→HTTP forwarder. It reads line-delimited JSON-RPC from stdin, POSTs each line to the MCP endpoint, and writes the responses back to stdout (streaming SSE line by line). That's the whole job: no data, no calc engine, no secrets. Read bin/cityparity-mcp.mjs if you want to verify.

npm install -g cityparity-mcp   # or use npx, as above

Env var	Default	Purpose
`CITYPARITY_MCP_URL`	`https://mcp.cityparity.com/mcp`	Override the upstream endpoint (local dev)
`CITYPARITY_MCP_DEBUG`	unset	Log request/response framing to stderr

Run the tests (zero dependencies, Node ≥ 20):

npm test

Methodology

The full methodology (how taxes, costs, childcare subsidies, and safety-net scoring work) is on the homepage. One thing worth flagging: RSU income is not an input. Grants are treated as source-only because they usually don't follow you across employers. If you're keeping a US employer remotely, treat the result as directional in that direction.

Privacy

Queries reach mcp.cityparity.com and nothing else. No accounts, no client-side telemetry, nothing personally identifiable logged beyond standard HTTP server logs.

License

MIT. cityparity's underlying data and calculation engine are not part of this package. This repo is the public MCP surface plus the open-source stdio bridge.

Found a bug or want a city added? https://cityparity.com/contact/

cityparity — Cost-of-Living & Quality-of-Life Comparison

Overview

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

What you can do with it

Install

Before you install

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Compared with others in Otheri

Common questions

Alternatives

Spec Driven Development

Remote Desktop Commander

Zendesk

README from the maker

cityparity MCP server

What it covers

Tools

Connect

Claude Code

Claude Desktop / ChatGPT Desktop

Cursor

Codex CLI

Stdio-only clients (this package)

The bridge (this package)

Methodology

Privacy

License