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Install it in one click. Download hourly-rate.mcpb and double-click it in Claude Desktop. There is no hosted URL for this one. The other servers answer at https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/<server>/t/<token>; this one has no endpoint yet, and that address returns 404 for it. Run it from the bundle above or from a clone.
MCP server: the minimum hourly rate a freelancer must charge to hit a desired annual after-tax income, given business expenses, billable hours, working weeks and the tax rate on profit. Plus a break-even rate and side-by-side what-if scenarios.
Free, pure calculation: no storage, no rate tables, no network.
calculate_rate — minimum hourly rate from income, expenses, hours, weeks, taxbreak_even — the rate that covers expenses onlywhat_if — compare 2–12 scenarios, highest rate firstnode servers/hourly-rate/src/index.js
One-click hourly-rate.mcpb bundle from the releases page,
or build from source. See llms-install.md.
Three prompts that scored 3 of 3, measured in round 44, 2026-10-12. Paste one in as it is written.
I want to clear 75,000 a year after 28 percent tax. My expenses run 12,000 and I can bill 25 hours a week, 46 weeks. What's my hourly rate?
Paste this into Claude with the server connected.
What it did, measured in round 44, 2026-10-12: calculate_rate returned $105.07/h over 1,150 billable hours; hand-checked: 87000/1150/0.72 = 105.07.
What rate just covers my costs, before any income?
Paste this into Claude with the server connected.
What it did, measured in round 44, 2026-10-12: break_even returned $10.43/h for 12,000 expenses over 1,150 hours; 12000/1150 = 10.43.
Compare three pricing scenarios side by side: current plan, a leaner 40-week year, and a lower-tax 24 percent year.
Paste this into Claude with the server connected.
What it did, measured in round 44, 2026-10-12: what_if ranked 40 weeks $120.83, 46 weeks $105.07, 24pct tax $99.54, highest first; each figure re-derived by hand from the same formula.
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