cityparity - Cost-of-Living & Quality-of-Life Comparison 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. Its 6 documented tools cluster into read & search, compare, rank. It is available as a remote MCP endpoint.

Teams that want a hosted endpoint instead of running a local process. The project is written in JavaScript.

VERIFIED ACTIVE

LAST COMMIT 2026-06-26 · ★ 2 · #791 OF 848 MAINTAINED OTHER · VERIFIED 2026-08-25

MIT · JavaScript servers · how we verify → /methodology

01 · Install cityparity - Cost-of-Living & Quality-of-Life Comparison

before you install - you'll need

The README does not document required environment variables for a basic install.

Claude Code

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

Claude Desktop / Cursor / VS Code - add to config

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

Same JSON for Cursor. For VS Code, rename the top-level key from `mcpServers` to `servers`.

Using another client? Same JSON, different key

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Full setup guides: every client.

02 · Evidence

https://mcp.cityparity.com/mcp

transport: streamable-http

endpoint alive - responded to MCP initialize · probed 2026-08-25

Security posture

What to check before giving this server access to your agent - from the registry, GitHub, and our own probes. We don't score safety; we show what's verifiable.

runs as remote - your agent's requests go to mcp.cityparity.com

endpoint auth accepted our unauthenticated MCP initialize - no credentials needed to connect

license MIT - declared in the repository

registry vendor namespace com.cityparity - domain-verified with the official MCP registry

03 · What cityparity - Cost-of-Living & Quality-of-Life Comparison can do

Prose above is summarized from the project's README and registry record - no invented capabilities.

What you can build

An agent gets 6 documented tools across read & search, compare, rank, including compare_cities, list_cities, get_city_summary, rank_cities.

Capability map

Tools grouped from the project's README - what cityparity - Cost-of-Living & Quality-of-Life Comparison lets an agent do.

read & search

4 tools - e.g. Discover supported city slugs, grouped by country.; One-city profile: tax shape, headline costs, safety-net values.; Parental leave, universal-healthcare flag, vacation, public holidays for 1 to 20 cities.

list_cities · get_city_summary · get_safety_net · get_inbound_tax_regime

Compare

1 tool - e.g. Full scenario comparison between two cities: take-home, cost breakdown, equivalent target salary, lifestyle deltas, quality score.

compare_cities

Rank

1 tool - e.g. Top N cities by composite quality score, with custom weights and region/country filters.

rank_cities

04 · Who maintains cityparity - Cost-of-Living & Quality-of-Life Comparison

cityparity - Cost-of-Living & Quality-of-Life Comparison is maintained by summerstateofmind. It's the only MCP server we track from this author; the repo dates to May 2026.

05 · Facts

repository: github.com/summerstateofmind/cityparity
category: other - ranked #791 of 848 actively-maintained other servers as of 2026-08-25.
registry: com.cityparity/cityparity (active, first published 2026-05-31)

06 · cityparity - Cost-of-Living & Quality-of-Life Comparison FAQ

Is cityparity - Cost-of-Living & Quality-of-Life Comparison still maintained?

Yes - as of 2026-08-25, its last commit was 2026-06-26. We re-verify nightly.

What can cityparity - Cost-of-Living & Quality-of-Life Comparison do?

An agent gets 6 documented tools across read & search, compare, rank, including compare_cities, list_cities, get_city_summary, rank_cities.

How do I install cityparity - Cost-of-Living & Quality-of-Life Comparison?

Run `claude mcp add summerstateofmind-cityparity --transport http https://mcp.cityparity.com/mcp`. The README does not document required environment variables for a basic install. You can also paste the ready-made client config above.

Does cityparity - Cost-of-Living & Quality-of-Life Comparison require authentication?

No - the endpoint accepted our unauthenticated MCP initialize when probed on 2026-08-25; you can connect without credentials.

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