All three answer "how many deductible miles did I drive and what are they worth" from your chat client or phone. MileIQ and Stride are phone apps that auto-detect drives with GPS and log them with almost no typing; ours is a local MCP server where you type or paste a trip and it applies your own saved rate tables. Both approaches produce an IRS-ready log, but the surrounding tradeoffs differ: auto-detection saves typing but depends on the cloud and phone location access, while ours needs no network and keeps the figures on your machine.
| Fact | Ours | MileIQ | Stride |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it does | Stores a typed trip, applies a rate you set per class, builds a per-month mileage summary and a CSV export | Auto-detects drives with GPS, logs them, organizes by purpose, builds an IRS-ready yearly report and export | Free IRS-standard mileage log, auto-detects and logs drives, IRS-ready report |
| Rate schemes | Unlimited of your own rates per class; you enter the current IRS rate yourself. No rate bundled in | US IRS standard rates supported | US IRS standard rates supported |
| Network / GPS | No GPS, no network. You type or paste the trip in chat | GPS and cloud account; syncs across devices | GPS and cloud account on the phone |
| Install/entry path | One-click mileage-log.mcpb bundle or a hosted URL from /mcp/connect. No account, no key | Free phone app account; collects and stores drives | Free phone app account |
| Price | Free tier 20 trips a month (rate lookups unlimited); Pro $19 once | Free (40 drives/mo per its own materials), Unlimited $13.99/mo ($11.66/mo annual) | Free |
| Licence | MIT | Proprietary | Proprietary |
Pick them if you do most of your driving with your phone in your pocket and want drives logged automatically without typing a trip into a chat client. MileIQ's free tier covers 40 drives a month in its own material; Stride is free and IRS-ready. Auto-detection also captures trips you would forget to type. If you want the IRS standard rate computed for you out of the box rather than entering it yourself, both ship it; the 2026 business rate is 76 cents a mile from July 2026 per the IRS.
Pick ours when you do not want your driving tracked by GPS or held in a cloud account, and when dictating each trip into chat is easier than the app tripping on every trip. You set and keep your own rate per class, so it works for a mileage rate that is not the current US standard (a historical year for a back-filed return, a non-US or employer rate). A per-month mileage summary and a CSV export cost nothing at the free tier, and the export feeds an expense-tracker entry. No account, no key, no network call.
Ours, one click: download mileage-log.mcpb from
the latest release and open it in Claude Desktop. No JSON, no terminal.
Or by URL, with nothing installed. /mcp/connect mints a free token and prints the ready line:
claude mcp add --transport http mileage-log https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/mileage-log/t/<token>The npm package is not published yet, so the line below returns a 404 today. It is here because it is what the config becomes the day that changes:
claude mcp add mileage-log -- npx -y @theluckystrike/mcp-mileage-logExact config file paths per client are on the setup pages.
Not as designed: both are phone apps whose core feature is GPS auto-detection of drives, and their reports are built in their cloud account. Ours has no GPS and no network; a trip is whatever you type or paste.
Stride is free. MileIQ's free tier is 40 drives a month, then Unlimited at $13.99/mo ($11.66/mo annual). Ours is free for 20 trips a month, unlimited rate lookups, and a CSV export at every tier; Pro is $19 once.
MileIQ and Stride carry the US IRS standard rates, currently 76 cents a mile for business from July 2026. Ours has no bundled rate; you set your own per class, so it can hold any rate including a back-filed year.
MileIQ pricing is at mileiq.com/pricing (Free and Unlimited tiers). Stride is described at apps.apple.com/us/app/stride-mileage-tax-tracker. The IRS 2026 standard mileage rates are at irs.gov/tax-professionals/standard-mileage-rates. All read on 2026-09-17.
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