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Benchmarq MCP.AI search audits inside your IDE and assistant workflows.

Benchmarq MCP connects your AI coding assistants, agentic pipelines, and IDEs directly to your Benchmarq workspace. Query real-time readiness scores, inspect exact check failures while editing source code, and trigger re-scans without ever leaving your editor.

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Synopsis
Protocol
Standard Model Context Protocol (MCP) server delivering structured diagnostic data and audit controls.
Where it runs
Inside Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Claude Desktop, custom CLI tools, or automated agent pipelines.
Endpoint
https://mcp.benchmarq.io/mcp
Authentication
Securely connects to your Benchmarq account to access your tracked domains, historical audits, and scan allowances.
Read capabilities
Overall and track scores, historical trends, failed checks with remediation advice, and competitor benchmark comparisons.
Action capabilities
Trigger single-page audit re-scans and stream real-time pipeline execution status.
Plan tiers
Basic scores and issue queries are included on all plans. Competitor gap tools require the Premium plan. See pricing details.

Why developers use Benchmarq MCP

Integrate AI search readiness directly into the environments where you write code, design schemas, and automate builds.

In your IDE (Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf)

Inspect failed structured data or crawler checks alongside your templates. Edit your JSON-LD or routing logic, trigger an immediate re-scan, and verify the score fix without context switching.

In conversational AI assistants

Ask questions in natural language: 'What technical blockers cost our pricing page the most points?' or 'How does our AEO score compare to competitor X after our latest release?'

In CI/CD & autonomous agent pipelines

Equip autonomous agents with deterministic readiness checks to validate staging deployments and flag AI search regressions before code reaches production.

Explore JSON report schemas→

What tools does the MCP server provide?

Ten deterministic tools covering score inspection, root-cause diagnostics, competitor gaps, and audit execution.

Terminal and assistant conversation displaying AI readiness scores by track via MCP
Assistant output listing high-impact technical issues and recommended code fixes
Assistant interface comparing domain scores against competitor benchmarks
Assistant triggering a new page audit via Benchmarq MCP tool call
Assistant reporting live diagnostic pipeline progress and completion

Inspection

Query composite and track scores

Fetch real-time 0–100 AI readiness scores for any tracked page or domain, including individual breakdowns for GEO, AIO, AEO, and CORE. Tools: get_page_scores, get_site_history, and get_tracked_domains.

Diagnostics

Pull prioritized root-cause diagnostics

Retrieve exact check failures, severity classifications, and code-level remediation advice for a specific URL or across your entire site. Tools: get_page_issues, get_site_issues, and get_page_report.

BenchmarksPremium

Inspect competitor gaps on demand

Compare your readiness scores against configured competitors and analyze check-level gaps ranked by visibility impact. Tools: get_competitor_report and get_competitor_gap.

Execution

Trigger live page re-scans

Launch a fresh audit for any URL on your tracked domains directly from your coding session. Instantly verify that your latest commit resolved the issue. Tool: trigger_page_scan.

Status

Stream real-time scan progress

Follow test execution through crawl, parse, and scoring phases. Standard audits finish in under 2 minutes, returning updated scores automatically. Tool: get_scan_status.

Supported clients and environments

Compatible with any IDE, client application, or agent framework that supports the remote MCP specification.

AI code editors

Coding agents & CLIs

AI assistants

Website & app builders

Works with any client that can connect to a remote MCP server. See your tool's documentation for setup.

How to connect in four steps

Register your domain in the web workspace, configure the remote MCP endpoint in your tool, and authenticate.

Setup steps

  1. Open the MCP or connector settings in your preferred IDE or assistant.
  2. Add a new remote MCP server pointing to https://mcp.benchmarq.io/mcp.
  3. Authenticate with your Benchmarq account credentials when prompted.
  4. Start querying readiness scores or triggering audit scans using natural language.

Prerequisites

  • Create a free Benchmarq account and add the domain you plan to audit in the web workspace.
  • Configure competitor domains in the web workspace if you plan to query competitive benchmarks via MCP.

Want a visual setup walkthrough? Watch the Benchmarq MCP tutorial on YouTube.

Example developer prompts

Ask your assistant in plain developer language. The model invokes the appropriate MCP diagnostic tools automatically.

Audit & score inspection

  • What is our latest AI readiness score for /pricing, and how is it split across GEO, AIO, AEO, and CORE?
  • Show the score trend for our primary domain across the last 5 scans.

Remediation & diagnostics

  • List the highest-severity failed checks on this URL and provide the code-level remediation steps.
  • Check if our domain has site-wide crawler access blockers or missing llms-full.txt files.

Competitor gaps & live re-scans

  • Compare our AEO track score with competitor X and rank the technical gaps by impact.
  • Trigger a re-scan of this page and notify me with the updated score once complete.

Questions.

Direct answers about Benchmarq MCP.

What is MCP?

The Model Context Protocol is an open standard that lets AI assistants call tools and read data from other services. Benchmarq runs a remote MCP server, so a compatible assistant can use your Benchmarq results directly.

Which assistants work with Benchmarq MCP?

Any client that supports remote MCP servers can connect with the server URL. Support for adding remote servers differs per assistant, so check the connector settings of the one you use.

Can my AI assistant scan any website?

No. It can start scans only for domains you already track in Benchmarq, and each scan uses one scan credit.

Can an AI assistant change my account or delete data through MCP?

No. The 10 tools read results and start page scans. Adding domains and linking competitors happen in the web app. See the web app.

Do I need a paid plan to use Benchmarq MCP?

Reading scores, history and issues for your tracked domains works with an account. Competitor tools need the Premium plan, and the detailed issue lists need the full-report entitlement. See pricing.

Connect your tools to Benchmarq MCP

Create a free account, add your domain in the web workspace, and connect your IDE or AI assistant in minutes. Free plan includes 4 pages a month.

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Competitor benchmarkingScore competitors with the same audit and see where you gain or lose ground.Domain tracking and score historyFollow every domain over time with a full history of scores.E-commerce suiteChecks tuned for shops: product data, feeds and shopping agents.Agentic apps suiteChecks for apps that agents call: tools, schemas and access.The layer trackers can't seePrompt trackers show answers; Benchmarq shows why your site is or is not used.Built in the EUBuilt in the EU by Enso DX, in line with EU privacy and AI rules.Transparent scoringHow your score is built: deterministic rules and weights you can audit.Product comparisonsBenchmarq next to other AI visibility tools.

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