How do I install Apipriceindex?

Copy the stdio config for Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or VS Code on this page. It uses the publisher's install, not a PlugMCP proxy.

Does Apipriceindex need an API key?

No required environment variable is listed on this record.

What transport does Apipriceindex use?

Apipriceindex runs locally over stdio.

Apipriceindex

by io.github.apipriceindex

Live, verified LLM API prices: search models, get sourced prices, estimate workload costs.

Power your agent

Add this server

The publisher's own command. Not a PlugMCP endpoint.

Local command

uvx apipriceindex-mcp==0.1.1

Provider

Claude Code

claude mcp add io.github.apipriceindex-mcp -- uvx apipriceindex-mcp==0.1.1

Run in a terminal.

Claude Desktop

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "io.github.apipriceindex-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "apipriceindex-mcp==0.1.1"
      ]
    }
  }
}

claude_desktop_config.json

Step-by-step: add this in Claude

Remote URL or a command on your machine? How the two installs differ

Run on PlugMCP

Host a copy with our keys and logs.

A new server you create. It is not this listing's official endpoint. Use the publisher install when you want their URL and their credentials.

Launch

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Questions

How do I install Apipriceindex?: Copy the stdio config for Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or VS Code on this page. It uses the publisher's install, not a PlugMCP proxy.
Does Apipriceindex need an API key?: No required environment variable is listed on this record.
What transport does Apipriceindex use?: Apipriceindex runs locally over stdio.
When was Apipriceindex last checked?: Last checked 2026-10-16. Live, verified LLM API prices: search models, get sourced prices, estimate workload costs.

apipriceindex-mcp

An MCP server that gives any AI agent live, verified LLM API prices.

Ask your assistant "what would 200M input / 15M output tokens a month cost me on Sonnet vs GPT?" and it answers from today's index — every price with its verification date, cross-check confidence and source URL. Data from apipriceindex.com (CC BY 4.0, re-checked daily against official pricing pages).

Tools

Tool	What it does
`search_models`	Find model ids by name/provider, filter by context window or open weights
`get_price`	Verified price of one model: input/output/cached input USD per Mtok, `verified_at`, `confidence`, source
`estimate_cost`	Monthly bill of a workload; ranks chosen models — or the whole catalog — cheapest first

Install

pip install apipriceindex-mcp

Claude Code / Claude Desktop:

claude mcp add apipriceindex -- apipriceindex-mcp

Or in any MCP client config:

{ "mcpServers": { "apipriceindex": { "command": "apipriceindex-mcp" } } }

Behavior

Prices are fetched live from the index (15-minute in-memory cache) — never stale training data.
Index unreachable → explicit error. No cached or invented price is ever served silently.
Index older than 14 days → answers still come, with a warning pointing at the index's health endpoint.
Model not tracked → says so, links the dataset. No price invented.
Cache discount only where the provider publishes a cached-input price.
Cost only: the index does not rank model quality, and third-party benchmark scores are not redistributed.

Environment: APIPRICEINDEX_URL overrides the dataset URL (testing).

License

Code: MIT. Price data: CC BY 4.0, attribution "API Price Index".