io.github.s-stefanov/actual-mcp

Actual Budget MCP Server

Is the Actual Budget MCP server down? No. It answered initialize and tools/list in the probe of 2026-10-31.

MCP server exposing Actual Budget accounts, transactions, budgets and reporting to LLM assistants.

alive probed 2026-11-15 · unchanged since 2026-10-31

17tools

2.9ktokens in Claude Opus 5.5

1.4 %of Claude's 200k window

1.2×the median server

1.1 sto initialize

9 msto list tools

Run it: npx -y actual-mcp@1.15.1 (stdio, probed in a container with the network off)
Host: npmjs.com
Reports itself as: Actual Budget 1.0.0
Capabilities: logging, prompts, resources, tools
Instructions: none
Of a 1M window: 0.3 % of a 1M context window
Count: 2.9k tokens in Claude Opus 5.5, exact, measured 2026-10-17. With the Claude Code prefix mcp__…__ on each tool name: 3.1k. The o200k_base estimate is 1.6k. Counted again when the tool definitions change. Method.
Repository: https://github.com/s-stefanov/actual-mcp
Website: https://github.com/s-stefanov/actual-mcp
Registry: active, updated 2026-10-20 · registry entry

Most expensive tools

The Claude column scales the o200k estimate of each tool by this server's ratio of exact to estimate, 1.81×.

Tool	≈ Claude tokens	o200k estimate	Share of this server
spending-by-payee	313	173	11 %
category-trends	291	161	10 %
net-worth	261	144	9 %
budget-vs-actual	250	138	9 %
cash-flow	248	137	9 %

Other registry entries on npmjs.com, the ones next to this name; all of them.

Servers that mention actual.

The result of the latest probe, the tool count and the token cost. The feed has an entry for every probe that changed them.

Stops answering, comes back, tool set or cost changes. One confirmation mail first, a stop link in every mail.