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cityparity — Cost-of-Living & Quality-of-Life Comparison Official

com.cityparity/cityparity

Checked 28 Oct 2026, 09:03 UTC · Connected to it and listed its tools

Cost-of-living & quality-of-life comparison: take-home pay, equivalent salary, safety-net deltas.

Source

At a glance

Type

MCP server

Publisher

cityparity.com (verified by the MCP Registry)

Status

Working at last check

Tools

6

Token cost

About 4,093 tokens per request

Sets up in

Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, VS Code, Antigravity, ChatGPT, OpenAI API, Grok

Last checked

28 Oct 2026, 09:03 UTC

Connect it to your agent

Add to CursorAdd to VS CodeVS Code Insiders

Opens the app, which shows the server and asks you to confirm. For other apps, copy the setup below.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http cityparity https://mcp.cityparity.com/mcp

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, and paste the URL.

Codex (config.toml)

[mcp_servers.cityparity]
url = "https://mcp.cityparity.com/mcp"

Gemini CLI

{"mcpServers":{"cityparity":{"httpUrl":"https://mcp.cityparity.com/mcp"}}}

Cursor

{"mcpServers":{"cityparity":{"url":"https://mcp.cityparity.com/mcp"}}}

VS Code

{"servers":{"cityparity":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.cityparity.com/mcp"}}}

Antigravity

agy mcp add cityparity https://mcp.cityparity.com/mcp

ChatGPT

Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced settings: turn on Developer mode, then Create a connector and paste the URL. Which plans can do this varies.

OpenAI API (Responses tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"cityparity","server_url":"https://mcp.cityparity.com/mcp","require_approval":"always"}

Grok (xAI API tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"cityparity","server_url":"https://mcp.cityparity.com/mcp"}

Tools

• compare_cities ~1382 tokens
  Compare two cities for one household: take-home pay, full cost breakdown, the equivalent target salary needed to match source net cash, non-cash lifestyle deltas (vacation, parental leave, healthcare), and a 0-100 quality score on five weighted dimensions. Use this for a head-to-head between two nam
• get_city_summary ~480 tokens
  Concise profile of one city: currency, tax shape (bracket count + top rate + payroll/national insurance), headline costs (rent / groceries / transit / childcare), safety-net values (parental leave, vacation, universal healthcare), and data freshness. Lighter than compare_cities; use when the user is
• get_inbound_tax_regime ~365 tokens
  Look up a city's inbound-worker tax regime, the special reduced-tax schemes for relocating workers that general cost-of-living tools do not surface. Returns regime=null when the country has no modeled regime, which is most cities. Modeled across 13 regimes in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Irela
• get_safety_net ~660 tokens
  Batch lookup of safety-net values for 1 to 20 cities at once: parental leave weeks + how it is paid, universal healthcare flag, vacation days, public holidays (public_holidays is the count the statute lists; public_holidays_effective is how many of those fall on a working day once you account for wh
• list_cities ~188 tokens
  List all city slugs supported by cityparity, grouped by country. Call this first to discover valid slugs before any other tool; the optional country filter narrows to one country. Read-only, no side effects; returns a text summary plus structured JSON.
• rank_cities ~1018 tokens
  Rank supported cities by composite quality-of-life score across five weighted dimensions (financial, healthcare, vacation, childcare, safety_net). Returns top N (default 10), with filters for country, countries, region (europe/asia/north_america/south_america/oceania), has_universal_healthcare, incl

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