# ReqRes MCP server > ReqRes' hosted MCP server lets a coding agent create a real hosted REST backend with no account, persistent JSON collections and API keys, then read and write its records. Unclaimed projects are deleted after 72 hours. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reqres-mcp - Pricing: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reqres-mcp#pricing - Reviews: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reqres-mcp#reviews - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reqres-mcp.md (~4,050 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reqres-mcp.min.md (~980 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reqres-mcp.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (the key docs and every listing in one file, at most 16 MB, about 4 million tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key) - DNS: dig +short TXT reqres-mcp.grade.anchorterminal.com (the grade as a DNS TXT record, for a sandbox with no HTTP where names still resolve; also top., best.. and .vs.. under the zone, and the same under grade.letme.dev) - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) - Updated: 2026-11-07 ## Overview **Grade D · 48.8/100 · rank #1114 of 1510 · #15 in Databases & files · not agent-ready · confidence medium** ## Assessment ReqRes' MCP server is the quickest way for a coding agent to stand up a real hosted backend, with no account, seven annotated tools and paginated records. Every result carries a sponsored line by default, the free tier is small, and unclaimed projects vanish after 72 hours. ## Facts | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Vendor | ReqRes (https://reqres.in) | | Kind | MCP server | | Category | Databases & files (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/data) | | Transport | Streamable HTTP | | Endpoint | `https://reqres.in/mcp` | | Auth | None · No authentication. create_project returns a manage key and a public key for the new project, and a claim link that moves it to a ReqRes account. | | Pricing | Freemium (Freemium) · Free plan, 250 requests a day, 3 collections and 100 records a project, with a daily cap on new projects; paid plans raise it to 10,000 requests a day and more (prices on the pricing page). Tool results end with a sponsored line unless ?sponsor=0 is added (checked 2026-11-07). | | x402 | No · No x402, MPP or L402 on the MCP docs or pricing page (checked 2026-11-07). | | Licence | unknown | | Tools exposed | 7 | | MCP registry name | `in.reqres/reqres` | | Docs | https://reqres.in/mcp | | llms.txt | https://reqres.in/llms.txt | | Surface listed | The hosted MCP server at reqres.in/mcp, read from reqres.in and its tools/list on 7 November 2026. No tool was called | | Capabilities | db.document, code.backend, data.store | | Tags | official, hosted, mcp, remote-mcp, no-auth, freemium, free-tier, llms-txt, mcp-registry, annotated-tools, sponsored-results | | JSON | https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/reqres-mcp.json | ## Score breakdown (methodology v0.7, October 2026 research run) Assessed 2026-11-07 from public evidence against the published checklist (https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/#checklist). Confidence: medium. Performance and Task success pending (no score, not in the total); the total is Σ(score × weight) ÷ 80 over the 7 assessed categories. "This run" is each category's share of the 100 points. | Category | Weight | This run | Score (0–100) | Points | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% | 20 | 30 | 6.0 | | Performance | 10% | pending | pending | n/a | | Schema & documentation | 13% | 16.2 | 61 | 9.9 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% | 16.2 | 76 | 12.3 | | Security & auth | 14% | 17.5 | 33 | 5.8 | | Payments & pricing | 10% | 12.5 | 50 | 6.2 | | Task success | 10% | pending | pending | n/a | | Maintenance & community | 7% | 8.8 | 50 | 4.4 | | Transparency & trust (editorial 47, provenance 46) | 7% | 8.8 | 47 | 4.1 | | Negative events | up to −15 | up to −15 | none recorded | 0 | | **Total** | | | | **48.8 → D** | ### Why each score - Reliability 30 (checked 2026-11-07): status.reqres.in wasn't reachable (0). No history (5). Free-plan limits published with numbers (250 requests a day, 3 collections, 100 records) (15). No retry guidance (0). No SLA found (0). Not labelled beta (10). 0 + 5 + 15 + 0 + 0 + 10 = 30. - Performance: Pending. Latency is measured per call by our probes, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until the first probe window closes. - Schema & documentation 61 (checked 2026-11-07): Seven tools read from tools/list with JSON Schema inputs (25). llms.txt (10). A tool table says what each does (12 of 20). Records and fields are free-form objects (5 of 15). Worked flow on the MCP page, no error docs (6 of 15). Registry 1.0.0, no changelog (3 of 15). 25 + 10 + 12 + 5 + 6 + 3 = 61. - Agent ergonomics 76 (checked 2026-11-07): Seven compact tools (25). list_records is paginated (15 of 20). No documented errors (3 of 20). Annotated, two read-only, and delete_record marked (18 of 20). No key needed and a plain REST API behind it (15). 25 + 15 + 3 + 18 + 15 = 76. - Security & auth 33 (checked 2026-11-07): No credential to start, and project keys returned by the tool (15 of 30). Writes on the agent's own project only (12 of 20). Every successful result ends with a sponsored message, labelled and 'never written as an instruction', which still puts third-party text in the model's context (3 of 15). No audit log (0). No security programme found (3 of 20). 15 + 12 + 3 + 0 + 3 = 33. - Payments & pricing 50 (checked 2026-11-07): No machine payment protocol (0). Plan prices public (10). Free plan (20). An agent creates a project with no person (20). 0 + 10 + 20 + 20 = 50. - Task success: Pending. Task success needs the category task suites run through each tool, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until then. A data provider's data-quality score is published on its listing now and becomes half of this category when it's scored. - Maintenance & community 50 (checked 2026-11-07): Registry entry in.reqres/reqres updated 16 October 2026 (30). No dated releases found (0). Blog and docs; no changelog (5 of 15). Official registry entry under its own namespace (15). No package to read (0). 30 + 0 + 5 + 15 + 0 = 50. 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 & trust 47 (checked 2026-11-07): Closed service under readable terms; operating company not named in the parts read (10 of 30). You own your data, unclaimed agent projects are deleted after 72 hours, and the terms say the free service can end with reasonable notice (22 of 30). That notice clause and the 72-hour rule are dated commitments (10 of 20). Subprocessors not found (5 of 20). 10 + 22 + 10 + 5 = 47. Fix list, everything this grade says the listing lacks, the biggest gain first (15 items). What it covers is at https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/reqres-mcp.md (JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/reqres-mcp.json). The whole list for a coding agent comes from `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/fix-list` with `{"listing": "reqres-mcp", "plan": "read"}`, free while the beta runs ### What we couldn't check - Paid plan prices and the operating company not read - People, ownership and investors not researched ### Sources - MCP page: (seen 2026-11-07) - tools/list, 7 tools: (seen 2026-11-07) - pricing: (seen 2026-11-07) - terms and privacy: (seen 2026-11-07) - llms.txt: (seen 2026-11-07) - lead, awesome-remote-mcp-servers pull request #2251: (seen 2026-11-07) ## Score history Every move of a score since the listing was graded, newest first, with its cause. A score can't move without an entry here. JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/reqres-mcp/history.json - 2026-11-07: graded 48.8 D (methodology 0.7) ## Who's behind it (provenance 46/100, checked 2026-11-07) | Check | Finding | Points | | --- | --- | --- | | Legal entity named | ReqRes | 20/20 | | Domain age | reqres.in, no registry record we could read | 0/15 | | Endpoint on the vendor's domain | reqres.in | 15/15 | | Terms of service | published, not read by us yet | 4/10 | | Privacy policy | published, not read by us yet | 4/10 | | Status page | not found | 0/10 | | Changelog | not found | 0/10 | | security.txt | not found | 0/10 | | People named | not researched yet | n/a | | Support route | help pages | 5/5 | Not looked up: RDAP isn't requested under the 1 November 2026 rules. The operating company wasn't named in the parts of the terms and privacy policy read. ### Terms and privacy, as read A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. Not legal advice. **Terms of service** (https://reqres.in/terms), not read yet. **Privacy policy** (https://reqres.in/privacy), not read yet. ## Humans behind the project (researched 2026-11-07 from public pages, not part of the grade) ### Key people - No people named yet. - Note: People, ownership and investors weren't researched in this batch (7 November 2026, leads from the awesome-remote-mcp-servers pull requests). ### Getting support - Help: https://reqres.in/mcp - Sources: https://reqres.in/mcp ## Live (updated 2026-11-07 23:26 UTC) - Right now: up, HTTP 200, 74 ms, checked 2026-11-07 23:26 UTC (mcp-initialize on `https://reqres.in/mcp`) - Uptime 24h 100.0% (48 probes) · 30 days 100.0% (48 probes) · p50 92 ms · p95 188 ms - Always current: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/live/reqres-mcp.json ## 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. Live uptime, where we poll the endpoint, is under Live and doesn't change the score. ## Strengths - A hosted backend from one call, with no account - Seven compact annotated tools with paginated records - A claim link moves the project to an account with data intact - llms.txt and a plain REST API behind the tools ## Weaknesses - A sponsored line in every successful result unless ?sponsor=0 - Unclaimed projects are deleted after 72 hours - Free plan of 250 requests a day - Status page unreachable and no changelog ## Before you call it (notes for agents) 1. Add ?sponsor=0 to the server URL to keep ads out of context 2. Give the user the claim link so the project survives 72 hours 3. Use the public key in frontend code and keep the manage key server-side ## Connect Claude Code: ```bash claude mcp add --transport http reqres 'https://reqres.in/mcp?sponsor=0' ``` MCP client configuration: ```json { "mcpServers": { "reqres": { "url": "https://reqres.in/mcp?sponsor=0" } } } ``` Through letme: https://letme.dev/reqres-mcp (letme picks it for code.backend, the top-graded tool for the job, letme picks it for data.store, the top-graded tool for the job). letme answers with the pick and how to call it direct. How it works: https://www.anchorterminal.com/letme/index.md ## Similar tools Ranked by shared capabilities, then score. 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Desk reviews, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. For a desk review, the outcome says whether the reviewer's questions could be answered from public material: success, partial or failure. How reviews work: https://www.anchorterminal.com/reviews/how-it-works.md ## Notable - Projects created without an account are deleted after 72 hours unless claimed (source: ) - Successful tool results end with a labelled sponsored message; ?sponsor=0 hides it (source: ) - Free plan 250 requests a day, 3 collections and 100 records a project (source: ) - #15 of 17 in Best database, file and memory tools for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/data/index.md - All 111 databases comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/data/index.md ## Compare - [ClickHouse MCP Server vs ReqRes MCP server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clickhouse-mcp-server-vs-reqres-mcp.md): B 68.8 vs D 48.8 - [DBHub vs ReqRes MCP server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/dbhub-vs-reqres-mcp.md): BB 70.4 vs D 48.8 - [Neon MCP Server vs ReqRes MCP server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/neon-mcp-vs-reqres-mcp.md): BB 72.5 vs D 48.8 - [ObsessionDB vs ReqRes MCP server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/obsessiondb-vs-reqres-mcp.md): E 41.1 vs D 48.8 - [PlanetScale MCP Server vs ReqRes MCP server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/planetscale-mcp-vs-reqres-mcp.md): B 69.6 vs D 48.8 - [Postgres MCP Pro vs ReqRes MCP server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/postgres-mcp-pro-vs-reqres-mcp.md): F 37 vs D 48.8 - [PostgreSQL (archived MCP reference server) vs ReqRes MCP server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/postgres-reference-server-archived-vs-reqres-mcp.md): F 18.6 vs D 48.8 - [ReqRes MCP server vs Snowflake-managed MCP server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reqres-mcp-vs-snowflake-managed.md): D 48.8 vs D 52.7 - [ReqRes MCP server vs Supabase API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reqres-mcp-vs-supabase-mcp.md): D 48.8 vs BB 74 - [MCP Toolbox for Databases vs ReqRes MCP server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mcp-toolbox-databases-vs-reqres-mcp.md): BB 77.7 vs D 48.8 - [MongoDB MCP Server vs ReqRes MCP server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mongodb-mcp-vs-reqres-mcp.md): A 80.2 vs D 48.8 - [Redis MCP vs ReqRes MCP server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/redis-mcp-vs-reqres-mcp.md): C 54.9 vs D 48.8 ## Verify this listing For the vendor. The badge or a plain link to this page verifies the listing, from a page on reqres.in or one of its subdomains. It shows the listing is the vendor's and that the vendor knows it's here, and it never changes a grade, rank or review. The vendor sends the page's address to `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` as `{"slug": "reqres-mcp", "url": "…"}`, or calls the `verify_listing` tool at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp. We fetch the page once, then again every week; two failed checks in a row and the verification lapses, and a later pass restores it. What we check: https://www.anchorterminal.com/builders/index.md#verify HTML badge: ```html ReqRes MCP server on Anchor Terminal ``` Markdown badge, for a README: ```markdown [![ReqRes MCP server on Anchor Terminal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/reqres-mcp.svg)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reqres-mcp) ``` Plain link: ```html ReqRes MCP server on Anchor Terminal ``` ## Share this listing For the vendor. 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