# Arphie: MCP server status, API access gate and what it does > AI-native RFP/RFx/security-questionnaire response software, positioned as a faster-drafting... Official MCP, Paid, self-serve. Checked 2026-08-24. *Markdown twin of the HTML page at the same path. Same content, no navigation, no styling, no scripts. Links below point at other twins. Site map for machines: [llms.txt](../llms.txt). The whole dataset: [directory.json](../data/directory.json).* --- [Directory](../index.md) / [Proposals & Deals](../categories/proposals-deals.md) / Arphie # Arphie [Official MCP](../mcp/official.md) [Paid, self-serve](../gates/paid.md) [Proposals & Deals](../categories/proposals-deals.md) RESEARCHED Checked 2026-08-24 > **RESEARCHED** Facts from public sources with URLs. No usage claims. Nobody has run this tool. The other tier is BENCH-TESTED, which means Andrew personally ran the tool on a stated date and cannot be bought at any price. Across the whole directory that count is 0. Vendor: [arphie.ai](https://arphie.ai) · entry id 13-arphie · source 13-proposals-deals.md line 204 **What it does** AI-native RFP/RFx/security-questionnaire response software, positioned as a faster-drafting alternative/competitor to Loopio and Responsive. **AI features, separated from automation with an AI label on it** Core product is explicitly AI-drafting-first (auto-answering RFP/questionnaire content from a knowledge base) - the category's newer, "AI-native" entrant rather than an established platform with AI bolted on; depth of the underlying model not independently verified. **RevOps role** AI-native RFP response layer, direct competitor to Loopio and Responsive, differentiated mainly on drafting speed and a transparently usage-priced MCP tier. **MCP server** - **Status bucket**: Official MCP - **Auth**: unknown - **Parsed URLs**: 0 found in the mcp_url field The vendor ships and maintains the server itself. A wrapper built by Zapier, Composio or a similar third party does not count as official. The status was established on 2026-08-24 and has not been re-fetched since. mcp_status, verbatim from the file: official mcp_url, verbatim from the file: referenced via pricing/product pages describing an "Arphie MCP" plan; no distinct standalone MCP docs URL or GitHub repo was independently located beyond the pricing mention - treat with the same caution as DealHub's entry above, logged as official on the strength of a specific named, priced product line rather than a confirmed public technical spec. **Access gate** - **Gate bucket**: Paid, self-serve - **Can a solo operator reach it**: Yes, by paying, no sales call api_gate, verbatim from the file: paid, usage-based for MCP specifically. Core RFP platform uses "concurrent project-based" custom pricing (charges scale with how many RFPs/questionnaires are active at once, not per-seat) with no published rate card. The MCP plan specifically is priced at $50/month plus $0.05 per answered question - notably the same $50/mo base as Responsive's MCP pricing, suggesting a shared MCP-hosting/billing pattern across RFP vendors worth investigating further. **API documentation** No documentation URL recorded. 263 of 293 entries are in the same position. Blank is legal and it is published as blank. **GitHub health** Not measured. github_url, github_stars, github_last_commit and github_archived are null on every entry in this build. The refresh rail specced in SPEC section 7.2 has not been run. An unstamped star count is a lie, so nothing is shown rather than something stale. **Jobs it can do** - [Draft an RFP or questionnaire response](../jobs/draft-rfp-response.md) A job tag means the vendor says the tool does this. It is not a test result, not proof the capability is reachable through the tool's MCP server, and not proof it is available on the gate this entry records. Tagged by machine-pass on 2026-08-25 against the closed 55 job vocabulary. 271 of 293 entries carry at least one tag; 827 tags are assigned in total. **Sources** - [https://www.arphie.ai/](https://www.arphie.ai/) - [https://autorfp.ai/blog/arphie-pricing](https://autorfp.ai/blog/arphie-pricing) - [https://www.arphie.ai/blog/best-ai-tools-rfx-response-automation-software](https://www.arphie.ai/blog/best-ai-tools-rfx-response-automation-software) 3 source URLs. Raw sources field, verbatim: https://www.arphie.ai/, https://autorfp.ai/blog/arphie-pricing, https://www.arphie.ai/blog/best-ai-tools-rfx-response-automation-software **Notes, verbatim from the file** FLAG: the "$50/mo + per-answer usage" MCP pricing pattern appearing identically at both Responsive and Arphie (two direct competitors) is worth a dedicated follow-up - either a coincidence, a category-wide pricing convention, or both vendors reselling the same underlying MCP-hosting infrastructure. **Provenance** - **Entry id**: 13-arphie - **Source file**: 13-proposals-deals.md - **Source line**: 204 - **Tier**: RESEARCHED - **last_checked**: 2026-08-24 - **Data baked**: 2026-08-25 Every field above is rendered from directory.json exactly as the build produced it. Nothing is summarised and nothing is dropped. The one change made at render time is typographic and it is disclosed on the [methodology page](../methodology.md).