AI Alt Finder

Measured conclusion: Deep-tested. L2 outcome: tools_ok.

Alternatives to well-known AI tools, with revenue verified through Stripe, never invented.

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Copy this into your MCP client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "AI Alt Finder": {
      "url": "https://aialtfinder.com/api/mcp/mcp",
      "transport": "streamable-http"
    }
  }
}

Measured tools (6)

• search_tools read-only

  Search the AI Alt Finder catalog of live, published AI tools by a free-text query. Matches on tool name, tagline, or category name (case-insensitive substring). Call this first when a user asks to find, discover, or compare AI tools by keyword, use-case, or category (e.g. 'agents', 'writing assistants'). Returns up to 20 results.

  Parameters:

  • query (required) — string — Free-text search term, e.g. a tool name, use-case, or category.

  Hints: read-only yes · destructive not declared · idempotent yes · open-world no

• get_tool read-only

  Fetch the full public detail for one AI tool by its listing slug (as returned by search_tools' toolUrl, e.g. '/tools/acme-writer' -> slug 'acme-writer'). Call this after search_tools to get a tool's full description, launch date, revenue signals (verified or self-reported), and for-sale status. Returns null if the slug doesn't resolve to a live AI Alt Finder listing.

  Parameters:

  • slug (required) — string — The tool's listing slug.

  Hints: read-only yes · destructive not declared · idempotent yes · open-world no

• list_alternatives read-only

  List live, same-category alternatives to a well-known AI tool (e.g. 'chatgpt', 'notion-ai', 'figma'). Call this when a user asks 'what are the alternatives to X' or wants competitors/substitutes for a named product. `target` is the well-known tool's slug, not a listing slug from this catalog.

  Parameters:

  • target (required) — string — Slug of the well-known target tool, e.g. 'chatgpt'.

  Hints: read-only yes · destructive not declared · idempotent yes · open-world no

• submit_tool

  Submit a new AI tool to AI Alt Finder on behalf of its maker. Creates a draft listing (not yet public) and returns a claimUrl the maker must visit to sign up and claim/publish it. Call this only when a user explicitly wants to list their own tool — never to submit a tool on someone else's behalf without their email. Rate-limited globally to 5 submissions per hour. Supply tagline, problemSolved, logoUrl and imageUrls whenever you can: they are what make the published listing look like a real product page rather than a stub.

  Parameters:

  • name (required) — string — The tool's name.
  • url (required) — string — The tool's https homepage URL.
  • description (required) — string — A description of the tool (40-1000 chars).
  • category (required) — string — Category slug, e.g. 'agents', 'writing', 'coding', 'design', 'marketing', 'productivity', 'video', 'analytics'.
  • email (required) — string — The maker's email — used to claim the listing on signup.
  • logoUrl — string — https URL of the tool's logo. We copy it to our own storage — we never hotlink the maker's host.
  • tagline — string — One line shown on every card (max 60 chars). Supply it — without one we fall back to a truncated description.
  • xHandle — string — X/Twitter handle, without the @.
  • imageUrls — array — Up to 5 https screenshot URLs, best first. Copied to our own storage. Without any, the listing shows a generated placeholder card instead of a real screenshot.
  • problemSolved — string — What problem the tool solves, in the maker's words (max 160 chars). Rendered as its own block on the listing page.
  • xHandleIsFounder — boolean — True when the handle is the founder's personal account rather than the product's.

  Hints: read-only no · destructive no · idempotent no · open-world no

• list_offers read-only

  List the optional paid add-ons a maker can buy to promote their listing (name, one-sentence effect, price in USD). Listing is always free; these only ADD reach and are always labeled 'Sponsored'. Call this to see what's purchasable before create_checkout. During free early access (early-bird), offers are not yet purchasable and this says so (purchasable=false).

  Hints: read-only yes · destructive not declared · idempotent yes · open-world no

• create_checkout

  Create a Stripe checkout URL for one paid add-on on one listing, and return it for a HUMAN to open. Never present this as a completed purchase: nothing is charged until a person completes checkout in a browser. Returns an error when the listing doesn't exist, the add-on isn't purchasable yet (free early access), or payments aren't configured in this environment.

  Parameters:

  • slug (required) — string — The listing's slug (as in a toolUrl, e.g. '/tools/acme-writer' -> 'acme-writer').
  • product (required) — string — Add-on key: premium_launch, review_one, review_monthly, network_all, network_three. See list_offers for names, effects, and prices.

  Hints: read-only no · destructive no · idempotent no · open-world yes

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Measured by MCPYP probing. Untested fields are omitted, never estimated. Listing is always free; MCPYP never proxies calls or stores user tokens.