AI Tools Directory

Curated index of 221 AI tools across 21 industries. Search by use case, department or pricing tier.

Should I use this

Quality & Safety

A
Description quality
100%
Schema completeness
68%
Naming quality
96%
Poisoning risk
100%
Permission match
100%
Protocol compliance
100%

Based on automated analysis of tool definitions and protocol compliance.

Context Cost

~507Tokens (tool definitions)
~733 BTypical response size
Minimal attention impact (0.40% of 128k context)

This is the approximate number of tokens consumed each time the server's tools are loaded into a model's context. Higher counts reduce the attention available for other tasks.

Install

One-Click Install

Add this to your `claude_desktop_config.json` file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-tools-directory": {
      "url": "https://ai-tools-mcp.toolboxes.top/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Remote endpoints

https://ai-tools-mcp.toolboxes.top/mcpstreamable-http

What it can do

Tool inventory

Tools (5)

🟢 Read-only🟡 Write🔴 Delete⚪ Unknown
🟢search_ai_tools(query, department, pricing, limit)

Search the AI tools directory by free-text query, industry department, and/or pricing tier. Returns matching tools with name, URL, department, pricing tier and description.

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Free text matched against tool name, description and tags (e.g. \"video editing\", \"invoice\")."
    },
    "department": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Department id, e.g. marketing, design, dev, finance, legal, healthcare. Call list_departments for the full list."
    },
    "pricing": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "free",
        "freemium",
        "paid"
      ],
      "description": "Filter by pricing tier."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Max results (default 20, max 100)."
    }
  }
}
🟢get_ai_tool(name)

Get the full record for one AI tool by name (exact match first, then fuzzy).

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Tool name, e.g. \"ChatGPT\"."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "name"
  ]
}
🟢list_departments

List all industry departments in the directory with the number of tools in each.

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {}
}
🟢find_free_ai_tools(requires_no_credit_card, has_free_plan, has_api_on_free, department, limit)

Find AI tools with a free tier, optionally filtered by auto-extracted facts (no credit card required, has a free plan, API available on the free tier). Free-tier facts are auto-extracted and unverified.

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "requires_no_credit_card": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Only tools whose vendor page explicitly says no credit card is required."
    },
    "has_free_plan": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Only tools with a free plan / free tier / free forever."
    },
    "has_api_on_free": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Only tools with API access on the free tier."
    },
    "department": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Optional department filter."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Max results (default 20, max 100)."
    }
  }
}
🟢directory_stats

Get summary statistics for the directory: tool count, department count, pricing distribution, and how many tools have auto-extracted free-tier facts.

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {}
}

Recommended Prompts

search_research
Search for information about [topic] using AI Tools Directory
Expected tools: search_ai_tools
find_specific
Find [specific item] using AI Tools Directory
Expected tools: search_ai_tools
retrieve_data
Get details about [item] from AI Tools Directory
Expected tools: get_ai_tool
fetch_info
Fetch [information type] using AI Tools Directory
Expected tools: get_ai_tool
list_items
List all [items] available in AI Tools Directory
Expected tools: list_departments

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