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Search and compare 3,000+ checked AI tools: pricing, liveness, Effect and Trust scores.
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- Streamable HTTP · MCP 2025-11-25
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4 toolscompare_toolsCompare two AI toolsRead-onlyIdempotentInspect
Two EffectHub tool cards side by side — pricing, scores, platforms, API, liveness — plus the differences in plain sentences. When EffectHub has a researched head-to-head page for the pair, comparison_url links to it.
ParametersJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| a | Yes | Slug of the first tool. | |
| b | Yes | Slug of the second tool. |
Output Schema
ParametersJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| a | Yes | |
| b | Yes | |
| highlights | Yes | |
| attribution | Yes | |
| comparison_url | Yes |
get_toolGet an AI tool's cardRead-onlyIdempotentInspect
Everything public on one EffectHub tool card: what it does, category, pricing model and entry price, Effect score, Trust score, platforms, whether it is still alive and when that was last checked, and the card URL. Takes the tool's slug (from search_tools, or the last part of https://effecthub.net/ai/{slug}).
ParametersJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| slug | Yes | The tool's slug, e.g. "cursor". |
Output Schema
ParametersJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| tool | Yes | |
| attribution | Yes |
list_alternativesList alternatives to an AI toolRead-onlyIdempotentInspect
Tools that do the same job as the given one. Alternatives our research named for this tool come first (basis "researched"), then live tools from the same category (basis "category"). Discontinued tools are left out.
ParametersJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| slug | Yes | The tool to find alternatives for. | |
| limit | No | How many tools to return (1-20, default 10). |
Output Schema
ParametersJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| tool | Yes | |
| count | Yes | |
| results | Yes | |
| attribution | Yes | |
| alternatives_url | Yes |
search_toolsSearch AI toolsRead-onlyIdempotentInspect
Search the EffectHub catalog of AI tools by product name, job to be done ("transcribe interviews") or category ("video editing"). Optionally narrow by task slug, category slug or pricing model. Returns published, live tools with pricing, Effect score and a link to each card on effecthub.net.
ParametersJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| task | No | Optional task slug, as in https://effecthub.net/ai-for/{task} (e.g. "text-to-speech"). Only tools tagged with it are returned. | |
| limit | No | How many tools to return (1-20, default 10). | |
| query | Yes | What to look for: a product name, a job, or a category in plain words. | |
| pricing | No | Optional pricing model: free, freemium, free_trial, paid or contact (sales-quoted). | |
| category | No | Optional category slug, as in https://effecthub.net/ai-tools/{slug}. A top-level category includes its subcategories; matched on each tool's primary category. |
Output Schema
ParametersJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| count | Yes | |
| query | Yes | |
| filters | Yes | |
| results | Yes | |
| search_url | Yes | |
| attribution | Yes |
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