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TopAlternativesTo

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Compare software: verified pricing with its source and date, and ranked alternatives.

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Que pouvez-vous faire avec TopAlternativesTo ?

  • "What should we move to instead of Zendesk? We are eight people."
  • "Find project management tools with a free plan under $15 a seat."
  • "What does Notion actually cost, and when was that checked?"

Installation

Ajoutez ceci à la configuration MCP de votre client (Claude Desktop : claude_desktop_config.json ; Cursor : .cursor/mcp.json ; VS Code et les autres utilisent la même forme « mcpServers »).

Remote (streamable-http)
Claude Code 
claude mcp add --transport http topalternativesto 'https://topalternatives.to/api/mcp/mcp'
Configuration JSON (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code) 
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "topalternativesto": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://topalternatives.to/api/mcp/mcp"
        }
    }
}

Documentation

Tirée du README du projet sur GitHub, actualisée chaque semaine. Les liens ouvrent GitHub.

Sommaire
  1. TopAlternativesTo MCP server
  2. Install
  3. Tools
  4. What you can ask
  5. About the data
  6. Licence

TopAlternativesTo MCP server

Give your AI assistant verified software comparisons: pricing read from the vendor's own page and dated, and a ranked verdict on what to switch to.

Backed by TopAlternativesTo, an independent software comparison site covering 360+ tools across 59 categories with 358 ranked alternatives guides.

Free, read-only, no auth, no API key.

Install

Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http topalternativesto https://topalternatives.to/api/mcp/mcp
Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code

Add the server to the client's MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "topalternativesto": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://topalternatives.to/api/mcp/mcp"
    }
  }
}
stdio clients

Clients that only speak stdio can run this package, which proxies the hosted server:

npx topalternativesto-mcp

Tools

ToolParametersReturns
search_toolsquery, category, free_tier, max_price, limitFiltered catalogue. Matches on name, category, tagline and features, best match first
get_toolslugOne tool in full: what it is, pricing with the vendor page it was read from and the date, who it suits and who it does not
get_alternativesslugThe ranked alternatives, with the verdict on which one fits which kind of buyer

Every response carries the page URL, so the full reasoning and the date it was checked stay one click away.

What you can ask

  • "What should we move to instead of Zendesk? We are eight people."
  • "Find project management tools with a free plan under $15 a seat."
  • "What does Notion actually cost, and when was that checked?"

About the data

Pricing is read from each vendor's own pricing page, and every price is returned with that source URL and the date it was checked. Treat it as the vendor's list price on that date rather than as live pricing; enterprise pricing is negotiated.

The catalogue and the method behind it are documented at topalternatives.to/methodology. There is also a REST API for bulk access, and full MCP docs.

Licence

Code MIT. The data is CC BY 4.0: reuse it, including commercially, with a visible link back to topalternatives.to.

Questions fréquentes

Qu'est-ce que TopAlternativesTo ?

Compare software: verified pricing with its source and date, and ranked alternatives.

Comment installer TopAlternativesTo ?

Il fonctionne comme serveur distant. Dans Claude Code : claude mcp add --transport http topalternativesto 'https://topalternatives.to/api/mcp/mcp'. Pour les autres clients, collez la configuration JSON de cette page dans leurs réglages MCP.

Faut-il une clé API pour TopAlternativesTo ?

Son entrée au registre n'indique aucune clé ni secret obligatoire. Certaines fonctions peuvent tout de même demander un compte auprès du service auquel il se connecte.

TopAlternativesTo est-il open source ?

Oui. Son code est sur GitHub sous licence MIT.

Qui maintient TopAlternativesTo ?

Il est publié par AgenticAdvertising. AI.tn le référence sans le maintenir ni le recommander.

Issu du registre MCP officiel. Être listé n'est pas une recommandation : vérifiez le code et les permissions d'un serveur avant de lui donner accès à vos données.