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FinancialMCP serverFirst audited Nov 13, 2026

FreeRateUpdate Mortgage & Home Equity Shopping

Mortgage and home equity rates, loan limits, lender HMDA and SEC figures, home values, newsThe vendor's description, from its MCP Registry listing.

Passed public checksAudited Nov 13, 2026

Every public check ran and passed. Public audit: we connect as an AI client would, list the tools and check what they say. We do not run them. How we audit

Does it work?
YesConnected in 412 ms.
Sign-up?
None neededIt answered without any account or key.
Can it change things?
No, read-onlyAll 17 tools say they only read.
Endpointhttps://fru-api.freerateupdate.com/mcp

Website Streamable HTTP · protocol 2025-11-25 · server version 1.0.0

What we checked, the evidence, and the tools it offers.

What we checked

Security

  • Passed: Connections are encrypted (HTTPS).

  • Passed: No hidden instructions found in tool text.

Safety labels

  • Passed: Every tool says whether it only reads or can change things.

Tools

  • Passed: 17 tools listed.

  • Passed: Every tool describes its inputs with a valid schema.

Protocol

  • Passed: The MCP handshake works (Streamable HTTP).

  • Passed: Protocol version 2025-11-25 (latest).

  • Passed: Unknown requests are refused.

Connection

  • Passed: The server responds.

Tools (17)

As the server describes them. The labels are the server's own: it says whether each tool only reads or can change things.

  • get_mortgage_ratesToday's mortgage and home equity As Low As rates from FreeRateUpdate: the best rates and APRs we can verify being offered by lenders and brokers in our network, exactly as freerateupdate.com publishe…Read-only
  • get_heloc_ratesToday's As Low As rates for a home equity line of credit (HELOC) and a home equity loan, the same published revision as get_mortgage_rates, with each example scenario, including the existing first-mo…Read-only
  • get_start_linkThe link that starts a FreeRateUpdate request for one product, so lenders and brokers in our network can contact the person with their own rates and options. You can open it in the person's browser a…Read-only
  • get_loan_limitsThe conforming and FHA loan limits for the counties a five-digit ZIP code falls in, for the 2026 published schedule, as freerateupdate.com publishes them at https://www.freerateupdate.com/loan-limits…Read-only
  • get_lender_scoreThe FreeRateUpdate Score (0-100) for a verified, currently in-network lender by company NMLS id, with factor breakdown and methodology link. Companies without a published current Score are not found.Read-only
  • get_network_rate_summaryNetwork-aggregate advertised-rate summary (min/avg APR + distinct-lender count per product bucket, min 5 lenders per bucket) from the latest fresh FreeRateUpdate rate snapshot. Aggregates only — no p…Read-only
  • get_home_valuesFreeRateUpdate first-party median home value from consumers who shopped rates with us (national, or one state), rolling 12-month window, refreshed monthly.Read-only
  • get_state_property_taxFreeRateUpdate state dataset: median real estate property taxes, median monthly owner costs and median home value by state from the Census ACS 5-year, with the effective tax rate as the ratio of the…Read-only
  • get_state_loan_to_incomeFreeRateUpdate first-party dataset: the median loan amount our shoppers request in each state against that state median household income, as a ratio, by product. The sample floor is published with th…Read-only
  • get_state_mortgage_free_homeownershipFreeRateUpdate state dataset: owner-occupied housing units owned free and clear (no mortgage) by state, from the Census ACS 5-year B25081, with the owner-occupied universe, the units with and without…Read-only
  • get_reference_seriesPublic reference time series FreeRateUpdate maintains (e.g. pmms_30yr_fixed, treasury_10yr_par), with license notes and observations.Read-only
  • get_content_answerA published FreeRateUpdate answer to a mortgage or home-equity question, pinned to the edition it was published in. Ask by exact slug, or by keywords that are matched against the title and slug. Topi…Read-only
  • get_lender_universeSearch FreeRateUpdate's published lender pages: every company the public page resolver publishes on freerateupdate.com/reviews/, and nothing else. A row shows only what that page shows: the display n…Read-only
  • get_news_episodesThe FRU News episodes FreeRateUpdate has published: slug, title, description, series, publication date and the page to read, newest first. Omit slug for the list; pass a slug for one episode; pass se…Read-only
  • get_lender_profileWhat a lender's published FreeRateUpdate page shows about the lender itself: the page URL, the Overview, Mortgage options and How it works sections as plain text, the loan types the page names, and w…Read-only
  • get_lender_figuresOne lender's published HMDA figures, by name: originations, denials, approval rate, rate spread, closing costs and product mix for the latest reported year, from the same FFIEC source the lender's Fr…Read-only
  • get_lender_sec_figuresOne lender's published SEC-filed parent figures: revenue, net income and the like, taken from the annual or quarterly filing the lender page prints. Ask with a lender name or its company NMLS. The fi…Read-only

Audit history

  1. Nov 13Passed

What we sent

Every request in this audit, with the answer and how long it took. We never send credentials and never call a tool.

RequestAnswerTime
initializeHTTP 200412 ms
initializedHTTP 20294 ms
tools/listHTTP 200278 ms
unknown-methodHTTP 200118 ms

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