ComputeFinder open data and MCP

ComputeFinder is an evidence-led directory of where compute comes from, what rules apply to it, and what a proposal in a place actually establishes.

It helps you:

• find a route to compute (providers, funded programmes, offer types)

• understand what is proposed or built in a place (data-centre records, country profiles, planning and community questions)

• follow the evidence behind a claim (news, research notes, claim reviews)

Marc Winn is responsible for editorial policy. Contact: hello@computefinder.net

What it is not

• Not a GPU price comparison board. There is no live price or availability feed. Each provider page links out to the provider's own conditions.

• Not a ranking. Nobody pays to be listed or placed higher.

• Not a claim that a proposal, a permission, an operating building and usable compute are the same thing.

• Not a place that adds unlike capacity figures together.

If you need a spot price, go to the provider. If you need a careful, dated, source-linked account, you are in the right place.

Related MCP server: OpenBind MCP Server

Datasets (live counts)

Canonical downloads live on the site, not in this repository. Figures below were read from https://computefinder.net/data and the matching JSON envelopes on 9 November 2026 (Europe/Jersey). Always prefer the live checked / generated_on dates on each file.

Also on the data page, outside the main catalogue table:

• Connected project evidence (initial cohort): project-evidence.json (no CSV). ComputeFinder CC BY 4.0 on its compilation and original interpretation only.

• Compute events evidence JSON: compute-events.json

Machine-readable discovery:

• Data index: https://computefinder.net/data

• OpenAPI 1.4.0: https://computefinder.net/openapi.json

• Citation guidance for models: https://computefinder.net/llms.txt

• Changelog feed: https://computefinder.net/feed.xml

To download every catalogue file in one go, see scripts/fetch.sh. This repository does not vendor the JSON/CSV blobs, so counts and evidence dates stay attached to the live site.

Licence

ComputeFinder's original summaries, labels and compilation rights are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). You may share and adapt those contributions, including commercially, with appropriate credit to ComputeFinder, a licence link, and an indication of changes. Material is provided as-is without warranties.

This grant covers only rights ComputeFinder controls.

• Third-party material keeps its own licences, attribution and other terms. A source link on a record is not permission to republish that source's text or database. Catalogue envelopes currently mark source terms as "not comprehensively cleared".

• Epoch AI's frontier data-centre export is republished under Epoch AI's own CC BY 4.0 terms. Credit Epoch AI and keep the licence link. See https://epoch.ai/data/ai-data-centers

• Berkeley Lab Queued Up figures appear on https://computefinder.net/grid-queues under their CC BY 4.0 terms (credited there). They are not duplicated as a separate file in the main catalogue table above.

• Some pages carry a stricter adaptation licence for a stated scope (for example the 800 VDC explainer uses CC BY-SA 4.0). Record-specific notices win for their scope.

• Private correction submissions, email addresses, website code and branding are excluded.

• Price APIs (Azure Retail Prices, AWS Price List Bulk, and many GPU cloud pricing pages) are marked not cleared on https://computefinder.net/sources and are not published here.

Full wording: https://computefinder.net/sources and the licence block on https://computefinder.net/data

See also NOTICE.md and LICENSE.

How to cite

Cite the specific ComputeFinder page or dataset, the primary source it points to, the date you retrieved it, and ComputeFinder.

Example:

ComputeFinder, "Free and funded compute programmes", https://computefinder.net/free-compute (dataset: https://computefinder.net/data/programmes.json), retrieved 9 November 2026. Original contributions CC BY 4.0.

For language models, follow https://computefinder.net/llms.txt

MCP endpoint (verified)

Read-only Model Context Protocol endpoint:

https://computefinder.net/mcp

Verified on 9 November 2026 against the site's documented stateless 2026-07-28 Streamable HTTP transport.

What it exposes

• Resources: 18 public JSON datasets (same catalogue as /data). resources/list and resources/read work.

• Resource templates: provider-by-slug and country-by-slug (resources/templates/list).

• Tools: none. tools/list returns JSON-RPC -32601 Method not found.

• Prompts: none. prompts/list returns -32601.

• Initialize: initialize returns -32601 on this stateless surface (every request is self-describing under 2026-07-28).

• Auth: none observed for public reads (remote-list marker would be unlocked).

Snapshots from the probe (not a substitute for a live call) are in mcp/.

Required request shape (2026-07-28)

Every POST needs:

• Header MCP-Protocol-Version: 2026-07-28

• Header Mcp-Method: <json-rpc-method>

• For resources/read, also Mcp-Name: <uri>

• Body params._meta["io.modelcontextprotocol/protocolVersion"] equal to the header

Example: list resources with curl

curl -sS -X POST https://computefinder.net/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
  -H 'MCP-Protocol-Version: 2026-07-28' \
  -H 'Mcp-Method: resources/list' \
  -d '{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 1,
    "method": "resources/list",
    "params": {
      "_meta": {
        "io.modelcontextprotocol/protocolVersion": "2026-07-28",
        "io.modelcontextprotocol/clientInfo": { "name": "example", "version": "0.1.0" },
        "io.modelcontextprotocol/clientCapabilities": {}
      }
    }
  }'

Client config example (remote HTTP MCP)

Exact field names vary by client. The idea is: point a Streamable HTTP / remote MCP connector at the URL above, with no API key.

Cursor-style remote server entry (illustrative):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "computefinder": {
      "url": "https://computefinder.net/mcp",
      "transport": "streamable-http"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop / Claude Code custom connector: add a connector whose URL is https://computefinder.net/mcp (HTTPS, streamable HTTP, no auth).

A copy of the illustrative block is in mcp/client-config.example.json.

Why this repository exists

So people can find, cite and wire up ComputeFinder's open data without treating the site as a mystery. Listings that expect a GitHub home (MCP catalogues, awesome lists) can point here. The live evidence still lives on computefinder.net.

Corrections

Wrong number? https://computefinder.net/corrections