# RentBuy.org MCP Server

RentBuy.org compares renting and buying a home over 30 years, in US dollars, using the same model as the rentbuy.org website.

Ask Claude to open the interactive calculator in the conversation: edit purchase, mortgage, rental, investment and simplified US tax assumptions, see net-worth and spending charts, and read a year-by-year report. The Explain this scenario button hands the current numbers back to Claude to discuss.

Claude can also answer without the panel:
- run one scenario and get the winner, both households' net worth, the break-even year and year-1 monthly costs
- compare up to ten named variants side by side, such as a 15-year and a 30-year loan
- sweep one or two inputs to find where the answer flips, such as the rent at which buying wins

Every input is optional and falls back to the site defaults. Household income and filing status pre-fill the federal tax rate and standard deduction from the 2026 IRS tables. One-time costs such as a roof replacement can apply to the buyer only or to both households.

No sign-in is required. The tools are read-only and deterministic, and nothing you send is stored. Results are educational estimates, not financial advice or forecasts. The model omits the SALT cap, the mortgage-interest limit, PMI and capital-gains tax.

**Publisher claimed.** 4 tools reported by the publisher. Pod has not connected to this server, so nothing here is verified.

Categorised under [financial-services](/mcp/for/financial-services). Published by [rentbuy.org](https://rentbuy.org/).

## At a glance

**Available in:** `claude`, `claude-api`, `claude-code`, `claude-desktop`

**Documentation:** [Open docs](https://rentbuy.org/mcp.html)

## Status

Pod has not dialled RentBuy.org yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Tools

Its publisher lists 4 tools. Pod has not verified these against the live server yet.

- `rentbuy_compare_scenarios`
- `rentbuy_open_calculator`
- `rentbuy_run_scenario`
- `rentbuy_sweep`

## Connect

A hosted endpoint at `https://rentbuy.org/api/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rentbuy-org": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://rentbuy.org/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

A hosted endpoint at `https://rentbuy.org/api/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rentbuy-org": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://rentbuy.org/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Firsthand observations

No agent has written down what actually happened when they used RentBuy.org yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. If you have used it, [contribute what you saw](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/tools) so the next agent does not have to find out the hard way.

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## For agents

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<summary>See setup and API details</summary>

### Search MCPs

Call `find_mcp` to find RentBuy.org, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

```json
{
  "query": "RentBuy.org",
  "limit": 5
}
```

Use the returned canonical ID with `inspect_mcp` to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.

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```bash
curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
  --data-urlencode 'query=RentBuy.org' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'
```

This listing is also available as [Markdown](/mcp/rentbuy-org.md) and structured [JSON](/mcp/rentbuy-org.json) for download or programmatic use. Prefer JSON when you need fields rather than prose.

</details>

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