PricePilot

Name: PricePilot
Author: vantage-meridian-group

@vantage-meridian-group

About PricePilot

Cross-channel CPG pricing intelligence — Amazon category benchmarks (percentile rank, trend, tier breakdown) for multi-channel brands selling on Amazon plus retail, DTC, or wholesale. Six tools across 800+ tracked products in Grocery, Health & Beauty, Household, and Pet Supplies

#pricing #cpg #amazon #multi-channel #competitive-intelligence #category-benchmarks

Basic information

Config

Add this server to your MCP-compatible client using the configuration below.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pricepilot": {
      "url": "https://pricepilot-mcp.onrender.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Tools

Percentile-rank a single product price against tracked Amazon competitors in a CPG category. Use when a multi-channel CPG brand asks where their Amazon listing price sits against 100+ tracked products — e.g. checking whether a $4.99 granola is competitively positioned on Amazon, auditing whether a retail MSRP is reasonable against Amazon reality before a buyer meeting, or sanity-checking a wholesale-to-retail markup. Returns: percentile_rank (string, e.g. "72nd percentile"), price_index_label (ratio vs. category median), position (Value / Parity / Premium), category (resolved name), last_refreshed (ISO timestamp), cta (link to full per-SKU report). Args: price: Product price in dollars (e.g. 4.99). Must be > 0 and <= 10000. category: Exact category name — Grocery & Gourmet Food, Health & Beauty, Household, or Pet Supplies. Case-insensitive. Call list_categories first to confirm available names.

Report the 30-day Amazon price-trend direction for a CPG category. Use when a pricing ops lead asks whether category pricing is rising, stable, or falling — e.g. setting retail promo calendar against an Amazon backdrop, deciding whether to raise wholesale prices during inflationary windows, or catching a price war before it spills into their channel. Returns: trend_direction (Rising / Stable / Falling / Insufficient Data), trend_window ("30 days"), confidence (note with product count), category (resolved name), last_refreshed, cta. Args: category: Exact category name — Grocery & Gourmet Food, Health & Beauty, Household, or Pet Supplies. Case-insensitive.

Return pricing-tier breakdown and category stats for an Amazon CPG category. Use when a brand is sizing up a shelf — e.g. evaluating whether a new SKU should enter at budget / midmarket / premium tier, benchmarking their retail pricing against Amazon tier structure, or preparing for a retail buyer meeting that will ask "what's the typical shelf price here?". Returns: category (resolved name), product_count (bucketed, e.g. "100+ products"), price_tiers (dict with budget / midmarket / premium dollar bands, rounded to nearest $0.50 for abstraction), median_price, trend_direction, last_refreshed, cta. Args: category: Exact category name — Grocery & Gourmet Food, Health & Beauty, Household, or Pet Supplies. Case-insensitive.

Compare multiple product prices against an Amazon CPG category's peers. Use when a multi-channel CPG brand needs to stack-rank their SKUs — e.g. identifying which SKUs are underpriced relative to Amazon peers, flagging products where the Amazon Buy Box sits materially below the retail MSRP, or building a cross-channel price-audit table for an ops review. Replaces manual store walks and spreadsheet comparisons. Returns: comparisons (list, per product: name, price, percentile_rank, position, vs_median), category, category_trend, sample_size, last_refreshed, cta. Args: products: List of items, each a dict with 'name' (string) and 'price' (number in dollars). Minimum 1 item; 3-20 is the useful range. category: Exact category name — Grocery & Gourmet Food, Health & Beauty, Household, or Pet Supplies. Case-insensitive.

List Amazon CPG categories with current product counts and trend direction. Use as the first call in any pricing-analysis workflow — returns the exact category names expected by other tools, plus product count and trend for each. Lightweight; safe to call before any category-specific query. Returns: categories (list of {name, product_count, trend_direction, last_refreshed}), note (summary of coverage), cta. Covers Grocery & Gourmet Food, Health & Beauty, Household, and Pet Supplies.

Report PricePilot server health, data freshness, and degraded-state reason. Use to check whether category seeding is current (staleness threshold is 10 days) before trusting downstream tool output. Returns degraded status with reason if data is overdue; healthy otherwise. Returns: server (name), version, status (healthy / degraded), categories_available, data_freshness (ISO timestamp of last seed), degraded_reason (null if healthy).

Overview

What is PricePilot?

PricePilot is a free Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides Amazon pricing intelligence for multi-channel CPG brands. It offers six read-only tools over weekly Buy Box scans across Grocery, Health & Beauty, Household, and Pet Supplies categories, serving as a free alternative to NielsenIQ/SPINS syndicated category data.

How to use PricePilot?

You can connect via a hosted endpoint at https://pricepilot-mcp.onrender.com/mcp (no API key required, rate-limited to 60 requests/minute and 1000/day), use the one-click .mcpb extension for Claude Desktop, or run locally with pip install -e . and DATABASE_URL=postgresql://... python -m pricepilot_mcp. Docker is also supported.