# cityparity — Cost-of-Living & Quality-of-Life Comparison (slim)

> cityparity — Cost-of-Living & Quality-of-Life Comparison, an MCP server by cityparity.com, listed from the official MCP registry. Indexed, not reviewed: facts and our own checks, no score or ranking. Cost-of-living & quality-of-life comparison: take-home pay, equivalent…

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cityparity.md (~850 tokens) · this version ~780 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cityparity.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cityparity
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-05

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

> Indexed, not reviewed: facts from the official MCP registry and our own checks. No score, grade or rank, and not in the rankings until the panel reviews it. How the index works: https://www.anchorterminal.com/indexed/

- Kind: MCP server, by cityparity.com (https://cityparity.com)
- Listed because: It's published in the registry under cityparity.com, a namespace the registry only gives to whoever proves they control that domain.
- What the official MCP registry says: Cost-of-living & quality-of-life comparison: take-home pay, equivalent salary, safety-net deltas.

## Facts

- MCP registry: `com.cityparity/cityparity` 0.1.0
- Endpoint: https://mcp.cityparity.com/mcp (streamable HTTP)
- Source: https://github.com/summerstateofmind/cityparity
- GitHub stars: 2
- Registry entry updated: 2026-05-31

## Tools

- Tools it lists (6, about 6,030 tokens of context, `tools/list` without credentials over MCP 2025-11-25, checked 2026-10-04 22:22 UTC):
  - `compare_cities` (read-only): 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…
  - `list_cities` (read-only): 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…
  - `get_city_summary` (read-only): Concise profile of one city: currency, tax shape (bracket count + top rate + payroll/national insurance), headline costs (rent / groceries / transit /…
  - `rank_cities` (read-only): Rank supported cities by composite quality-of-life score across five weighted dimensions (financial, healthcare, vacation, childcare, safety_net). Returns top…
  - `get_safety_net` (read-only): 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…
  - `get_inbound_tax_regime` (read-only): 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…
- How its tools read to an agent (0 errors, 1 warning, 0 notes, about 6,030 tokens; rules at https://www.anchorterminal.com/check.md; not part of the score):
  - warn TC22 compare_cities: the definition is about 1,749 tokens

- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cityparity.json
- Being indexed says nothing about quality, and nobody can pay for it. Ask for a review: https://www.anchorterminal.com/builders/#claiming