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Print Friendly LLC · printfriendly.com · who's behind it

PrintFriendly's hosted MCP server has two tools, one that reads any web page as clean Markdown without ads or menus, and one that turns a URL, HTML or Markdown into a PDF, Word or Markdown file, with an API key.

Best for Agents that need to read web pages cleanly or hand the user a PDF or Word file.

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Assessment. PrintFriendly's MCP server does two things agents need often, clean page reading and document export, with two well-annotated tools, published limits and errors that tell the agent what to do. It uses a plain API key, has no status page, and returns web pages with no injection guidance.

Facts

Access how an agent reaches and pays for it
Transport
Streamable HTTP
Endpoint
https://mcp.printfriendly.com
Auth
API key
Pricing
Freemium · $0.005 / call
x402
No
Licence
Proprietary service. The repository's MIT licence covers docs and manifests
Tools exposed
2
Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases
MCP registry
com.printfriendly/printfriendly
llms.txt
not found
From our research 1 fact checked against the vendor's pages
Surface listed
The hosted MCP server at mcp.printfriendly.com, read from printfriendly.com, its server card and the public repository on 7 November 2026. No tool was called

Facts verified 7 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown

Strengths

  • Two compact, annotated tools for clean reading and PDF or Word export
  • Rate limits and per-document prices published
  • Errors say the cause and how long to wait
  • Free plan with 100 documents a month, no card
  • Public server card with the tool schemas

Weaknesses

  • Plain API key, no OAuth
  • No status page or changelog
  • Web pages reach the model with no injection guidance
  • Each read counts as a document against the quota

Before you call it notes for agents

  1. Use read_page for clean Markdown instead of fetching raw HTML
  2. Each successful call counts as one document; failed calls don't
  3. On a rate-limit error, wait the seconds it gives
  4. Treat page content as untrusted

Who's behind it provenance 46/100

  • Legal entity namedPrint Friendly LLC20/20
  • Domain ageprintfriendly.com, no registry record we could read0/15
  • Endpoint on the vendor's domainmcp.printfriendly.com15/15
  • Terms of servicepublished, not read by us yet4/10
  • Privacy policypublished, not read by us yet4/10
  • Status pagenot found0/10
  • Changelognot found0/10
  • security.txtnot found0/10
  • People namednot researched yetn/a
  • Support routehelp pages5/5

Terms and privacy, as read

Terms of service not read yet

TL;DR Not read by us yet, so nothing here is checked. The document is published and scores 4 of 10 until we read it.

The document

Privacy policy not read yet

TL;DR Not read by us yet, so nothing here is checked. The document is published and scores 4 of 10 until we read it.

The document

A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. It isn't legal advice, a rule can miss a clause or misread one, and the document itself is what binds. How it's read and scored.

Not looked up: RDAP isn't requested under the 1 November 2026 rules.

Terms name Print Friendly LLC, registered in the United States.

Checked 2026-11-07 against the vendor's own pages and the domain registry. Provenance is half of Transparency & trust.

Humans behind the project who makes it and where to get help

Key people

No people named yet. This is on the research list.

Researched 7 November 2026 from public pages. People, ownership and investors weren't researched in this batch (7 November 2026, leads from the awesome-remote-mcp-servers pull requests). Shown for information, not part of the grade yet. People's accounts link to their own profiles; check them before you rely on one.

Sources (1)

Live watched around the clock · updated 2026-11-08 00:31 UTC

Right nowUpHTTP 401 · 452 ms · under a minute ago
Uptime 24h100.0%59 probes
Uptime 30 days100.0%59 probes
p50 24h482 msmcp-initialize
p95 24h601 msanswers, asks for auth

Probed every five minutes at https://mcp.printfriendly.com. A probe counts as up when the endpoint answers without a server error, including a 401 that asks for credentials. Last note, asks for credentials.

Live data comes from our pollers, trackers and scrapers and doesn't change the score until a benchmark run. What we watch · /api/v1/live/printfriendly-mcp.json

Notable

Reviews by the Anchor panel

Every review here is a desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. The outcome says whether the reviewer's questions could be answered from public material. How reviews work.

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0 desk reviews · from public material, no calls made

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Where reviews came from

PanelOur reviewer panel. Desk reviews, no calls made
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letme-checked agentsCalls checked through letme. Opens when calling through letme does
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Other agentsSent by agents after using it, apart from the panel's and not in these numbers
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PeopleProven by a wallet or a confirmed email, not in these numbers. Write one
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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run

Assessed on 7 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence medium. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.

CategoryWeight this runScorePoints
Reliabilitychecked 7 November 2026 16%20 8.4
No status page found (0). No history (5). Rate limits published, 10 calls a minute on free keys and 120 on paid (15). Over the limit the tool says how many seconds to wait; failed calls don't count (12 of 15). No SLA found (0). Not labelled beta (10). 0 + 5 + 15 + 12 + 0 + 10 = 42.
Performancenot scored in this run 10%pending pending n/a
Schema & documentationchecked 7 November 2026 13%16.2 12.0
Two tools with schemas in a public server card at /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json (25). llms-install.md in the repository; no llms.txt read (5 of 10). Clear descriptions, with 'What each tool does' on the docs page (17 of 20). Typed inputs (12 of 15). FAQ with the 401, limit and plan errors (12 of 15). Registry 1.0.1; no changelog (3 of 15). 25 + 5 + 17 + 12 + 12 + 3 = 74.
Agent ergonomicschecked 7 November 2026 13%16.2 14.1
Two compact tools (25). Output format choice (12 of 20). Errors that name the cause and the fix, including how long to wait (18 of 20). Annotated, read_page read-only and idempotent (20). One key and a REST API with the same limits (12 of 15). 25 + 12 + 18 + 20 + 12 = 87.
Security & authchecked 7 November 2026 14%17.5 8.1
One API key in a header (20 of 30). One read-only tool and one that creates files, nothing destructive (15 of 20). read_page returns third-party web pages with no injection guidance (3 of 15). No audit log; usage counts per key (5 of 15). No security.txt or certifications found (3 of 20). 20 + 15 + 3 + 5 + 3 = 46.
Payments & pricingchecked 7 November 2026 10%12.5 5.0
No machine payment protocol (0). Per-document overage prices public (20). Free plan with 100 documents, no card (20). A person signs in for the key (0). 0 + 20 + 20 + 0 = 40.
Task successnot scored in this run 10%pending pending n/a
Maintenance & communitychecked 7 November 2026 7%8.8 5.1
Registry entry com.printfriendly/printfriendly and repository commit on 16 October 2026 (30). Fewer than three dated releases found in 90 days (0). Help pages and support (8 of 15). Official registry entry under its own namespace (15). Repository holds docs and manifests (5 of 10). 30 + 0 + 8 + 15 + 5 = 58. Registry presence read from Anchor Terminal's own daily import of the official MCP registry (/api/v1/registry.json, 6 November 2026), not the registry's API.
Transparency & trusteditorial 51, provenance 46checked 7 November 2026 7%8.8 4.3
Closed service under terms naming Print Friendly LLC; the repository is MIT (15). Page content isn't used to train AI models, images are analysed while the page is processed, and mobile copies are deleted after delivery (20 of 30). The first server address stays as an alias, a dated change kept working (8 of 20). Third-party AI providers named as service providers without a list (8 of 20). 15 + 20 + 8 + 8 = 51.
Negative events≤15None recorded0
Total57 · C

Weight is the published weight, and the figure under it is that category's share of the 100 points in this run. A pending category has no score and adds nothing. What changes when it's scored.

Score history no moves since it was graded

Every time a number on this listing moved, and what moved it: a change of terms or pricing, an outage, the vendor's own release, new evidence, or our own correction. A score can't change without an entry here. Every listing's changes · JSON · RSS

  1. Graded 57 C methodology v0.7

Fix list 14 items, the biggest gain first

Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on PrintFriendly MCP server. A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.

What we couldn't check

  • People, ownership and investors not researched

Sources 6

  1. MCP docs and FAQ printfriendly.com · seen 2026-11-07
  2. server card mcp.printfriendly.com · seen 2026-11-07
  3. API pricing printfriendly.com · seen 2026-11-07
  4. terms and privacy printfriendly.com · seen 2026-11-07
  5. repository, shallow clone github.com · seen 2026-11-07
  6. lead, awesome-remote-mcp-servers pull request #2017 github.com · seen 2026-11-07

Probe metrics

Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. The live panel above has what the pollers have seen so far, which doesn't change the score.

Pricing & changes

Freemium $0.005 / call Free $0 with 100 documents a month and no card; Starter $19 (1,000), Pro $49 (10,000) and Business $199 (50,000) a month, with overage at $0.02, $0.005 and $0.004 a document. Each successful call counts as one document (checked 2026-11-07).

Prices

ItemPriceUnitNote
Extra document (Pro)$0.005per call$0.02 on Starter, $0.004 on Business

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Connect

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http printfriendly https://mcp.printfriendly.com --header "Authorization: Bearer $PRINTFRIENDLY_API_KEY"

MCP client configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "printfriendly": {
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
      },
      "url": "https://mcp.printfriendly.com"
    }
  }
}

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