Xero vs Indie Founder Revenue MCP
Xero is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Cursor. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Cursor: cursor/plugins). Indie Founder Revenue MCP is an MCP server published by charlie-morrison. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Official MCP Registry). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-28. This pair was picked by a reader, not by our comparison rule, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |  Xero |  Indie Founder Revenue MCP |
|---|---|---|
| Cursor: cursor/plugins | Listed Version: 1.0.0 Forks (GitHub): 1 421 Stars (GitHub): 14 172 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.2.0 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 0 Not marked · First seen |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | Xero | Indie Founder Revenue MCP |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 1 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 14 172 (better) | 0 (worse) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 1 421 (better) | 0 (worse) |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | On your machine (@xeroapi/xero-mcp-server) | On your machine (https://github.com/charlie-morrison/indie-founder-mcp/releases/download/v0.2.0/indie-founder-mcp-0.2.0.mcpb) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | 2, secrets among them: 1 | 7, secrets among them: 5 |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 1 | Not a bundle |
| Licence (differs) | MIT | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/cursor/plugins | github.com/charlie-morrison/indie-founder-mcp |
| Changes in the last 7 days | 0 | 0 |
| First seen | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-11 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. Where the data itself says which value is better (more marketplaces, a larger figure of the same marketplace, a fresher release, a verified mark on a marketplace that lists both), the better one is also marked green with ▲ and the worse one red with ▼. Where it runs, the transport, the tools, the settings, hooks, the bundle's parts, the licence and the week's changes are marked only as different: more or fewer is not better in itself.
What each says it does
Xero
Read and write invoices, contacts, reports, and payroll.
Indie Founder Revenue MCP
Aggregates Lemon Squeezy, Gumroad, Polar, and Stripe revenue into one Claude-queryable view.
How to run each
Xero
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
Indie Founder Revenue MCP
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
Requires: GUMROAD_ACCESS_TOKEN (secret), INDIE_FOUNDER_MCP_LICENSE_KEY (secret), LS_API_TOKEN (secret), POLAR_API_TOKEN (secret), STRIPE_API_KEY (secret)
Commands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
Only Xero asks for
XERO_CLIENT_IDXERO_CLIENT_SECRET (secret)
Only Indie Founder Revenue MCP asks for
GUMROAD_ACCESS_TOKEN (secret)INDIE_FOUNDER_MCP_LICENSE_KEY (secret)LS_API_TOKEN (secret)LS_STORE_IDPOLAR_API_TOKEN (secret)POLAR_ORG_IDSTRIPE_API_KEY (secret)
Settings as each marketplace publishes them. Asking for fewer is not better in itself.
What it can do: Xero · What it can do: Indie Founder Revenue MCP · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/cursor/plugins/blob/HEAD/.cursor-plugin/marketplace.json. Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.