Finance Toolkit

io.github.JerBouma/financetoolkit

8/8 checks passed
Local or hosted
1 secret
★ 5.5k GitHub stars
Updated 2026-06-23
Health score 93

About Finance Toolkit

Finance Toolkit is an MCP server published by the GitHub account JerBouma. 200+ transparent financial metrics calculated from raw statements, not third-party endpoints.

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the PyPI package financetoolkit at version 2.1.2, or you can connect to the hosted version instead.

It asks for one secret: FINANCIAL_MODELING_PREP_API_KEY. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

Version 2.1.2 was published on 23 June 2026, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 10 automated checks on the registry entry and the package code: 8 pass, 0 warn, 0 fail, 2 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`FINANCIAL_MODELING_PREP_API_KEY`	Yes	Yes	Financial Modeling Prep API key, get a key over at https://www.jeroenbouma.com/fmp

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/JerBouma/FinanceToolkit
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Remote uses HTTPS	Pass	All remote endpoints use https://
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for 1 secret: FINANCIAL_MODELING_PREP_API_KEY
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account JerBouma
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	financetoolkit 2.1.2 has no setup.py; nothing runs at install
Code red flags	Pass	Read 99 files in financetoolkit 2.1.2: no obfuscation, encoded execution, credential reads or data-collection endpoints found
Text aimed at the AI	Pass	No hidden characters or instructions to the AI in 99 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 93 / 100

Worked out from public numbers and our own checks, not from user reviews or ratings. It says how used and how looked-after a server is, not whether it is safe.

Popularity33 / 40

5,483 GitHub stars, 14,534 downloads last week, 5 Hacker News posts (7 points). Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity25 / 25

Last push 2026-10-26, last release 2026-10-25, 200 commits in 90 days.

Issue health15 / 15

108 closed of 108 issues.

Our checks20 / 20

0 warnings, each costing a fifth.

639 forks, 94 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

5 Hacker News threads linking to the source code. We link to them and copy nothing.

Work with First, Second and Third Order Greeks Through the Finance Toolkit 2 points, 1 comments, 2024-01-17
Show HN: Every site gives a different P/E ratio, so I open-sourced the math 2 points, 0 comments, 2026-06-26
Get Financial Data of 345 Companies Within 40 Seconds with the FinanceToolkit 1 points, 1 comments, 2023-12-05
Factor Investing now available within the Finance Toolkit for FREE 1 points, 1 comments, 2023-10-12
Making Financial Calculations Transparent and Efficient with the Finance Toolkit 1 points, 1 comments, 2023-08-29

Look further: search Reddit, search Hacker News, read its GitHub issues. These are not reviews we checked.

Facts

Registry name	`io.github.JerBouma/financetoolkit`
Publisher	GitHub account JerBouma
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account JerBouma. The registry ties the name prefix to that account or domain; it does not check the code.
Type	Local package and a hosted remote
Packages	pypi `financetoolkit` 2.1.2 (stdio)
Remote endpoints	streamable-http https://financetoolkit.jeroenbouma.com/mcp
Version	2.1.2
Published	2026-06-23
Last updated	2026-06-23
Source repository	https://github.com/JerBouma/FinanceToolkit
Website	None linked
Category	Finance & payments (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · Python package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "financetoolkit": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "financetoolkit==2.1.2"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FINANCIAL_MODELING_PREP_API_KEY": "<your value>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code · hosted

claude mcp add --transport http financetoolkit https://financetoolkit.jeroenbouma.com/mcp

What these checks don't cover

We did not run this server, so we don't know what it does when it runs. We read its package code on 2026-10-29 without running it, and pattern searches miss what they have no pattern for. Tool descriptions built at run time were not seen. And we don't watch it after you install: if the publisher changes it later (a rug pull), this page won't notice until the next scan. Treat a pass as "nothing found", not as "safe".

For people and their AI

The same data as plain JSON: /data/servers/io-github-jerbouma-financetoolkit.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.