Pricepilot

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.