Oxford Economics

Limits

• Forecasts carry no accuracy warranty, in the vendor's own words. Oxford Economics' subscription agreement states that because of the uncertainty of future events and circumstances, and because contents are based on third-party data relied on in good faith, it "does not warrant the accuracy of its measurements and forecasts" and will not be liable for the contents or for the customer's reliance on them. The Subscription Services are provided on an "as is" basis, with implied warranties excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. That disclaimer covers every figure the connector returns.
• No warranty of uninterrupted or error-free service either. The same agreement states Oxford Economics does not warrant that use will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that the services will meet the customer's requirements.
• The general subscription terms prohibit AI input — and Oxford Economics ships an MCP connector. Clause 3.2.2 of the published global agreement bars using the Subscription Services, Reports and Data or Software in any way that is for training AI, and separately bars them "being inputted into any AI applications, tools or offerings", generative AI tools included, naming chatbot services as an express example. An MCP entitlement presumably varies this; the published terms do not say so.
• Redistribution is capped at 10%, with attribution. The agreement permits limited extracts inside new internal materials provided the extracts are not, in aggregate, more than 10% of the new material, are commercially insubstantial relative to it, sit in substantially original work, and carry a "source: © Oxford Economics Limited [YEAR]" attribution. New materials must not be distributed or sold to third parties without prior written consent — external consultancy projects and transaction work named explicitly.
• Model outputs may be published in summary form only. Where the Global Economic Model or Global Industry Model software is licensed, the agreement permits simulations and forecasts to be published in summary form, accompanied by an acknowledgement that the Oxford Economics model was used.
• The data is confidential and audit-backed. The agreement defines reports, data and software as Confidential Information, bars sharing access credentials with anyone including the customer's own employees who are not authorised users, and reserves an annual audit right to verify user accounts. A connector shared across a team is exactly the shape that provision addresses.
• Access needs the MCP entitlement specifically, not just a subscription. Oxford Economics states access is restricted to entitled subscribers and approved partners.
• Answers are silently narrowed by entitlement. Enforcement is per request — databank-level for EconomicData, individual-report-level for EconomicAnalysis. Both tools stay visible either way, so a narrowed answer is not distinguishable from a complete one in the client.
• Ten datapoints per EconomicData query. Oxford Economics documents the cap and advises multiple calls for larger needs.
• EconomicAnalysis defaults to the last four months of published research unless the question names a date range.
• Rate limits are tiered and unpublished. Oxford Economics documents a per-user short-window burst cap and a daily limit tiered by entitlement level, with a "too many requests" response on exceeding either. The actual numbers are not published.
• A third-party model sits in the path. Oxford Economics states answering a query may involve a third-party AI model to interpret the question and compose the response. It states the model operates under an enterprise agreement in which subscriber inputs and outputs are not used to train the provider's models, and that name, email and company identifier are not shared with the AI provider — only the content needed to answer. Oxford Economics itself records query text, responses, timestamps and your internal account identifier. It does not name the model provider.
• We could not verify tool behaviour ourselves. The endpoint returns 401 to an anonymous handshake, so no input schemas and no safety annotations were readable. Neither tool carries a safety annotation we can see, and the read-only reading rests on the mcp:read scope and the documentation rather than on annotations.
• Prompts are unconfirmed. Anthropic's snapshot lists no prompt names for this connector, and the gated endpoint blocked our own check, so we cannot say whether the server serves any.
• No RFC 9728 descriptor is served. All three path forms redirect to an unrelated SPA, so the scope list comes from the RFC 8414 authorization-server document alone. There is no protected-resource document to cross-check it against.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

• Oxford Economics MCP Server (support article) — https://support.oxfordeconomics.com/support/solutions/articles/52000155517 (fetched 2026-08-19; the directory's documentation URL, and the only vendor page describing the two tools, their inputs, entitlement scoping, rate limiting and data handling. Freshdesk knowledge base; served only to a browser user-agent) · retrieved 2026-08-19
• Oxford Economics AI & Data Solutions — https://www.oxfordeconomics.com/ai-data-solutions/ (fetched 2026-08-19; corpus scale figures — 200+ countries, 100M+ datapoints, 80+ sectors with forecasts to 2060, 8,000 cities and regions — and the MCP positioning for internal LLMs. The directory description links here for account upgrades) · retrieved 2026-08-19
• Oxford Economics Terms and Conditions, global subscription agreement — https://www.oxfordeconomics.com/terms-conditions/ (fetched 2026-08-19; clause 3.1.2 limited extracts and 10% cap, 3.1.3 model output publication, 3.2.2 AI training and AI input prohibition, 9.1 confidentiality, 2.2 audit rights, 10.1 accuracy and reliance disclaimer. A separate USA-specific version is linked from the same page and was not reviewed) · retrieved 2026-08-19
• Oxford Economics Privacy Policy — https://www.oxfordeconomics.com/privacy-policy/ (the directory's privacy_policy URL; listed for completeness)
• robots.txt on www.oxfordeconomics.com — https://www.oxfordeconomics.com/robots.txt (fetched 2026-08-19; disallows PDF uploads only, sets a 5-second crawl delay, declares a sitemap index. No Content-Signal axes are declared. support.oxfordeconomics.com/robots.txt disallows search, ticket and login paths but not solution articles; data.oxfordeconomics.com returns 404) · retrieved 2026-08-19
• llms.txt on www.oxfordeconomics.com — https://www.oxfordeconomics.com/llms.txt (fetched 2026-08-19; Yoast-generated page and post index for the marketing site. It does not mention the MCP server or the support portal) · retrieved 2026-08-19
• Live RFC 8414 authorization-server metadata — https://services.oxfordeconomics.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server (fetched 2026-08-19; the source of the five advertised scopes, the grant types, PKCE method and the Azure Container Apps issuer) · retrieved 2026-08-19
• Live RFC 9728 protected-resource descriptor — all three path forms checked 2026-08-19 (root, path-append /mcp, and path-insert). All three return HTTP 307 to https://data.oxfordeconomics.com, which serves the Global Data Workstation SPA HTML shell. No descriptor document is published · retrieved 2026-08-19
• Live anonymous probe — 2026-08-19: an anonymous initialize call to the endpoint returns HTTP 401 with content-length: 0 and no www-authenticate header. We did not authenticate and called no tool · retrieved 2026-08-19
• Anthropic connector directory — https://claude.ai/directory/1bc4c26c-2611-4cb0-8aeb-cd0f93622c2c (snapshot 2026-08-16; tool_names lists two, prompt_names is empty, and the record carries no permissions field. Added to the directory 2026-07-09) · retrieved 2026-08-16
• Oxford Economics support portal — https://support.oxfordeconomics.com/ (the directory's support URL; returns HTTP 302 to the portal landing page, checked 2026-08-19. Listed as a contact route; no claim on this page rests on it) · retrieved 2026-08-19