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title: "Algolia MCP Server: Claude and ChatGPT Setup | SourceMedium"
description: "Algolia hosts three MCP servers: Productivity MCP at mcp.algolia.com signs in to read search analytics, Public MCP answers shoppers, and DevEx writes code."
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[MCP Directory](https://sourcemedium.com/mcp-directory/) Site analytics and tracking Official
# Algolia MCP server

Remote endpoint mcp.algolia.com/mcp. Checked September 2026.

Algolia's Productivity server searches every index the account login can reach and reads its analytics: top searches, no-result and no-click rates, top filters, users, and countries. It changes no index, record, or setting. The Public server serves shoppers with search and recommendations, and DevEx returns code snippets only.

## Algolia MCP options

Every fact in a row comes from the publisher's own documentation.

| Option | Audience | Reads or changes | Sign-in | Setup |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Algolia Productivity MCP `https://mcp.algolia.com/mcp` Algolia [Registered as io.github.algolia/algolia-productivity](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/?q=io.github.algolia%2Falgolia-productivity) | Merchants | Searches every application and index your Algolia login can reach, retrieves recommendations and reads search analytics (top searches, no-result and no-click rates, top filters, users, and countries); it cannot create, update, or delete indices, records, or settings. Read only | OAuth sign-in | [Setup guide →](https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/model-context-protocol/productivity-mcp) |
| Algolia Public MCP Algolia | Shoppers | Exposes search, facet search, and recommendations over up to five chosen indices and any Recommend models in one application, for customer-facing assistants; access follows the Search API key behind the generated URL, and it is read-only. Read only | None needed | [Setup guide →](https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/model-context-protocol/public-mcp) |
| Algolia DevEx MCP Algolia | Developers | Returns Algolia API client code snippets matched to the client version in your project. Read only No account data | None needed | [Setup guide →](https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/model-context-protocol/devex-mcp) |

## Connect Algolia to your assistant

Each card lists the servers whose setup guide covers that assistant.

### Connect Algolia to ChatGPT, Codex, or Gemini

- [Algolia Productivity MCP →](https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/model-context-protocol/productivity-mcp)
Guide covers ChatGPT, Codex, Gemini CLI

### Connect Algolia to Claude

- [Algolia Productivity MCP →](https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/model-context-protocol/productivity-mcp)
Claude Code

```
claude mcp add --transport http algolia https://mcp.algolia.com/mcp
```

### Connect Algolia to Cursor

- [Algolia Productivity MCP →](https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/model-context-protocol/productivity-mcp)
.cursor/mcp.json

```
{"mcpServers":{"algolia":{"url":"https://mcp.algolia.com/mcp"}}}
```

### Connect Algolia to VS Code

- [Algolia Productivity MCP →](https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/model-context-protocol/productivity-mcp)
.vscode/mcp.json

```
{"servers":{"algolia":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.algolia.com/mcp"}}}
```

Algolia's setup guides also name OpenAI Playground.

## Other ways to reach Algolia data

- [Algolia Analytics API →](https://www.algolia.com/doc/rest-api/analytics)
- [Algolia CLI →](https://www.algolia.com/doc/tools/cli/get-started)

## One MCP server per tool still can't answer a cross-channel question.

Each server brings its own sign-in, its own definition of revenue, and data your assistant can't join to the rest.

SourceMedium connects 63 commerce and marketing sources, keeps one set of maintained definitions, and gives ChatGPT, Claude, and other assistants a single connection to all of it. Algolia is not a SourceMedium source today.
## More in Site analytics and tracking

- [Amplitude MCP server →](https://sourcemedium.com/mcp-directory/amplitude/)
- [Blotout MCP server →](https://sourcemedium.com/mcp-directory/blotout/)
- [GA4 MCP server →](https://sourcemedium.com/mcp-directory/ga4/)