i-bond-rate-mcp

Current I bond rate for AI assistants, and the rate your own I bond earns now. I bonds bought from November 1, 2026 to April 30, 2027 earn 5.51 percent, with a 1.40 percent fixed rate.

This is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. It reads the current rate from TreasuryDirect at call time and carries every rate since September 1998 from the TreasuryDirect rate chart. It needs no API key.

Tools

Every result has structured JSON, a one-paragraph summary, as_of, source (the TreasuryDirect page or rate chart) and more (a page on mcpstamp.com).

Related MCP server: SSCMFI Bond Analytics MCP Server

What it knows that your model does not

• The November 2026 rates (5.51 percent composite, 1.40 percent fixed, 2.04 percent semiannual inflation). Treasury announced them on November 1, 2026.

• That an existing bond does not earn the new-bond rate. It keeps its own fixed rate and gets a new inflation rate every 6 months from its issue month, so a bond bought in April 2022 earns 3.34 percent from October 2026 while a bond bought in January 2023 earns 3.75 percent until January 2027.

• The exact rounding and the zero floor. The formula reproduces all 1,711 composite rates in the Treasury chart.

Install

Hosted (Claude.ai custom connector, ChatGPT developer mode)

Paste this URL. No token, no sign-up. It works now.

https://i-bond-rate-mcp.lipmichal.workers.dev/mcp

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http i-bond https://i-bond-rate-mcp.lipmichal.workers.dev/mcp

Claude Desktop

Claude Desktop adds remote servers under Settings, Connectors, Add custom connector. Paste the URL above.

Cursor

Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "i-bond": { "url": "https://i-bond-rate-mcp.lipmichal.workers.dev/mcp" }
  }
}

VS Code

Add to .vscode/mcp.json:

{
  "servers": {
    "i-bond": { "type": "http", "url": "https://i-bond-rate-mcp.lipmichal.workers.dev/mcp" }
  }
}

Local stdio (after npm release)

The npm package is not published yet. After it is, run it locally with Node 20 or newer:

claude mcp add i-bond -- npx -y i-bond-rate-mcp

Example prompts

• "What is the I bond rate right now?"

• "What is the I bond fixed rate for November 2026?"

• "I bought I bonds in April 2022. What rate are they earning now?"

• "What is $10,000 of I bonds bought in January 2023 worth today, and what would I get if I cash them?"

• "If May 2027 inflation is 1.5 percent and the fixed rate stays at 1.40, what would the I bond rate be?"

Data sources

Full list with fetch dates in DATA_SOURCES.md.

• TreasuryDirect I bonds interest rates, read at call time.

• TreasuryDirect Series I rate chart, effective November 1, 2026.

Limitations

• Value is an estimate per $25 with semiannual compounding. Treasury values can differ by cents. Your TreasuryDirect account and the Savings Bond Calculator are the record.

• Rates after April 2027 are not known until Treasury announces them on May 1, 2027. The current-rate tool reads the live page, but the per-bond schedule uses the built-in chart until this server is updated.

• TreasuryDirect did not answer the hosted Worker on 2026-11-05, so the hosted server falls back to the built-in rate chart after a few seconds. Every result says which source it used in rate_source.

• It does not read your TreasuryDirect account and does not handle EE bonds or taxes.

More

More MCP servers that answer questions your assistant cannot answer alone are on mcpstamp.com.

Part of the Zovo MCP collection: https://mcp.zovo.one

Built by theluckystrike.

Development

npm install
npm test                              # builds, then runs the fixture tests and an offline stdio test
node scripts/stdio-transcript.mjs     # live stdio round trip, writes .live/stdio-transcript.jsonl

License

MIT