{"$schema":"https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/mcp-server-card/v1.json","version":"1.0","protocolVersion":"2026-07-28","supportedVersions":["2026-07-28","2025-11-25","2025-06-18","2025-03-26"],"serverInfo":{"name":"models-rip","title":"models.rip — a cemetery for deprecated AI models","version":"1.0.0"},"description":"Search and read the graves at models.rip: retired AI models and dead benchmarks, each with a hand-written epitaph, the retirement date its provider published, and cited sources.","iconUrl":"https://models.rip/icon.svg","documentationUrl":"https://models.rip/docs","transport":{"type":"streamable-http","endpoint":"https://models.rip/mcp"},"capabilities":{"tools":{}},"authentication":{"required":false,"schemes":[]},"instructions":"models.rip is an archive of AI models that are no longer served. Use it to answer what happened to a specific model and when, what replaced it, which dated snapshot ids a model absorbed, and which models are scheduled to be shut off next. Every date is the one the provider itself published, and every grave cites the provider page it came from.\n\nCall cemetery_overview first if you have not used this server before. Use search_graves when you do not know the exact slug — it matches retired snapshot ids too, so a model id someone pinned in production will find its grave. Use get_grave for the full record.\n\nAn absence is an answer: a model with any snapshot still answering in its maker's own lineup is not buried here, and neither are fine-tunes, rehosts or reseller listings. Do not use this server to check whether an API is up right now, or to compare models that are alive.","tools":[{"name":"search_graves","title":"Search the graveyard","description":"Find retired AI models and dead benchmarks buried at models.rip. Matches on the name people use, the API model id, any retired snapshot id folded into the grave, the provider, and the epitaph text. Filter by provider, by cause of death, or by whether the model is already gone or merely scheduled to be. Use this when you do not already know the exact slug."},{"name":"get_grave","title":"Read one grave","description":"The full record of one grave at models.rip: its epitaph, its launch and retirement dates, the shutdown date its provider published, its successor, its pricing and context window, and the provider pages every date is cited from. Accepts either the grave slug or any retired snapshot id folded into it, so a dated model id pinned in production still resolves."},{"name":"list_plots","title":"List the family plots","description":"Every provider with a plot at models.rip and how many models each has buried, largest first, plus the benchmarks plot. Use this to see which providers are covered before searching, or to compare how much each has retired."},{"name":"cemetery_overview","title":"What models.rip is","description":"What this archive is, what it deliberately leaves out, how many graves it holds, and where the raw dataset lives. Call this first if you have not used models.rip before — it explains why an absent model is itself an answer."}]}