# Instacart Developer Platform MCP Server

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/instacart/instacart-mcp-server/  
**Provider:** Instacart — https://apis.io/providers/instacart/  
**Base URL:** https://mcp.instacart.com/mcp  
**Documentation:** https://docs.instacart.com/developer_platform_api/guide/tutorials/mcp

Instacart Developer Platform MCP Server is one of 12 APIs that [Instacart](https://apis.io/providers/instacart/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Agents, MCP, Recipes, and Shopping Lists. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and a changelog.

Instacart's first-party remote Model Context Protocol server. Production endpoint https://mcp.instacart.com/mcp over Streamable HTTP, authenticated with a Developer Platform API key as an Authorization Bearer header; a development endpoint runs at https://mcp.dev.instacart.tools/mcp. Both answered an anonymous tools/list with HTTP 200 on 2026-08-27, returning the create-recipe and create-shopping-list tools with full JSON Schema inputs. A separate, endpoint-undisclosed Enterprise MCP server covering store availability, ingredient lookup and order assembly is documented but gated behind an Instacart representative.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **MCPServer** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/instacart/refs/heads/main/mcp/instacart-mcp.yml
- **ToolCrosswalk** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/instacart/refs/heads/main/mcp/instacart-tool-crosswalk.yml
- **Documentation** — https://docs.instacart.com/mcp_servers
- **ChangeLog** — https://docs.instacart.com/mcp_servers/changelog

## Other Instacart APIs (11)

- [Instacart Shopping Widgets](https://apis.io/apis/instacart/shopping-widgets/)
- [instacart Authentication API](https://apis.io/apis/instacart/instacart-authentication-api/)
- [instacart Chat API](https://apis.io/apis/instacart/instacart-chat-api/)
- [instacart Delivery API](https://apis.io/apis/instacart/instacart-delivery-api/)
- [instacart Items API](https://apis.io/apis/instacart/instacart-items-api/)
- [instacart Last Mile Delivery API](https://apis.io/apis/instacart/instacart-last-mile-delivery-api/)
- [instacart Orders API](https://apis.io/apis/instacart/instacart-orders-api/)
- [instacart Pickup API](https://apis.io/apis/instacart/instacart-pickup-api/)
- [instacart Products API](https://apis.io/apis/instacart/instacart-products-api/)
- [instacart Replacements API](https://apis.io/apis/instacart/instacart-replacements-api/)
- [instacart Rest API](https://apis.io/apis/instacart/instacart-rest-api/)

## Tags

Agents, MCP, Recipes, Shopping Lists

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