Fruit Stand Fund Returns — MCP Server

Live trailing & calendar-year total returns for 32,000+ US mutual funds and ETFs, as an MCP server. Ask an AI assistant to compare fund performance by ticker — no Morningstar or Bloomberg contract, free tier, same API key as the REST API.

Hosted, remote MCP over Streamable HTTP · works with Claude, Cursor, and any MCP client · get a free API key

Quick start

1. Get an API key

Sign up at app.fruitstand.dev — the free tier needs no card.

2. Point your client at the endpoint

https://api.fruitstand.dev/mcp

Remote MCP over Streamable HTTP, authenticated with your API key as a bearer token.

Native remote-MCP clients (Claude web/desktop "Add custom connector", Cursor, etc.) — use the URL above and add the header:

Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY

Claude Desktop config (claude_desktop_config.json) — bridge to the remote endpoint with mcp-remote:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fruit-stand": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://api.fruitstand.dev/mcp",
        "--header",
        "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Restart the client and the Fruit Stand tools appear.

Docker — the same bridge as a container (this repo's Dockerfile), for clients that take a docker command:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fruit-stand": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": ["run", "--rm", "-i", "-e", "FRUITSTAND_API_KEY", "ghcr.io/fruitstanddev/fruitstand-mcp"],
      "env": { "FRUITSTAND_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

The container only bridges stdio to api.fruitstand.dev/mcp — all data comes from the hosted server.

3. Ask a question

"Compare the 1-year, 5-year, and since-inception returns of SPY, QQQ, and VTI, and tell me which had the best 2022 calendar year."

The assistant calls batchTrailingReturns and batchCalendarReturns and summarizes.

Related MCP server: Financial Data MCP Server

Tools

Six tools, mirroring the REST API. Returns come back as decimal fractions (0.1234 = 12.34%).

Tickers use the SYMBOL.US form (e.g. SPY.US, VTSAX.US).

About the data

• Coverage: ~32,000 US mutual funds & ETFs.

• Trailing returns: standard windows through since-inception, total return (distributions reinvested).

• Calendar returns: full-year total return per calendar year.

• Freshness: refreshed daily from the same pipeline that builds the Fruit Stand datasets on Snowflake Marketplace.

• Methodology & field reference: app.fruitstand.dev/api/mcp and the docs.

MCP tool calls are metered exactly like REST calls and count against your monthly quota. A key with no active plan gets a 403 on tool calls.

Links

• Get a key / pricing: https://app.fruitstand.dev/pricing

• MCP setup docs: https://app.fruitstand.dev/api/mcp

• REST API reference: https://app.fruitstand.dev/api

• Marketing site: https://fruitstand.dev

• Status of the data pipeline / datasets: https://fruitstand.dev/datasets

License

MIT — this repo holds the public docs and connector metadata for the hosted service; the service implementation lives in a separate repo.