# Vetted Consumer

> Probe-verified (tier 2 of 3). Last checked 2026-08-23. 4 of 5 capability checks passed.

- host: vettedconsumer.com
- url: https://vettedconsumer.com/
- category: hardware advice
- type: tool
- language: en

## Probe-verified · tier 2 of 3

Probed live on 2026-08-23 against rubric v1. 4 of 5 checks passed.

- PASS — Markdown negotiation
- fail — Markdown twin at a predictable URL
- PASS — llms.txt
- PASS — API catalog
- PASS — MCP server answers

MCP tools (from tools/list on 2026-08-23): can_i_run_it, recommend_quant, cheapest_hardware_for_model, list_models, list_hardware, cost_compare, recommend_hardware, get_used_gpu_prices, compare_hardware

## Unverified actions

Read from the page's own content, with the wording each was drawn from. Inference is kept separate from tested facts; an agent completing the action is tier 3.

- **search** — "Hardware finder: answer 4 questions, get 3 honest hardware picks" → `https://vettedconsumer.com/hardware-finder/`
- **query_api** — "REST API: the same tools over plain HTTP" → `https://vettedconsumer.com/api`

## Summary

Vetted Consumer provides hardware advice for running local large language models with tools and APIs for hardware sizing, cost comparison, and model compatibility.

## Context

297 sites in this index share the type "tool"; 110 are transactional.

## How we grade

- tier 1 — **Declared**: The site says agents are welcome in its robots.txt. A permission, not a capability.
- tier 2 — **Probe-verified** (this site): We fetched the site and tested each signal ourselves. Dated, repeatable, re-checked on a schedule.
- tier 3 — **Behaviourally verified**: An agent completed the action end to end — booked, bought, submitted — and it worked.

## About this record

Known-Good probes sites live and publishes what was tested and when.
Method: https://knowngood.sh/about.md · Rubric: https://knowngood.sh/benchmark