# ChinaAPI (remote · api.chinaapi.ai)

Read-only ChinaAPI model catalogue, price snapshot, cost estimates and request recipes.

- Trust score: 83/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-04

## Components

- remote · `api.chinaapi.ai`: 83/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-chinaapi-chinaapi/api.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-chinaapi-chinaapi/api)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://api.chinaapi.ai/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-04.

- **Endpoint Security**: 74/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 65/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1223 tokens (~305/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 97/100
  - Stability observed for 29 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 4 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 5 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the ChinaAPI MCP server?

ChinaAPI is a hosted endpoint at https://api.chinaapi.ai/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http ai-chinaapi-chinaapi 'https://api.chinaapi.ai/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-chinaapi-chinaapi": {
      "url": "https://api.chinaapi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "ai-chinaapi-chinaapi": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.chinaapi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.ai-chinaapi-chinaapi]
url = "https://api.chinaapi.ai/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "ai-chinaapi-chinaapi": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://api.chinaapi.ai/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add ai-chinaapi-chinaapi --url 'https://api.chinaapi.ai/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  ai-chinaapi-chinaapi:
    url: "https://api.chinaapi.ai/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "ai-chinaapi-chinaapi": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://api.chinaapi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add ai-chinaapi-chinaapi -t streamable-http -u 'https://api.chinaapi.ai/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-chinaapi-chinaapi": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.chinaapi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-04 (score 83, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 93 to 97. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 28 days of observed history at the previous scan, 29 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-02 (score 82, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 87 to 90. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 26 days of observed history at the previous scan, 27 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-30 (score 81, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 77 to 80. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 23 days of observed history at the previous scan, 24 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-28 (score 80, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 70 to 73. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 21 days of observed history at the previous scan, 22 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-26 (score 79, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 63 to 67. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 19 days of observed history at the previous scan, 20 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-24 (score 78, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 57 to 60. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 17 days of observed history at the previous scan, 18 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-22 (score 77, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 50 to 53. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 15 days of observed history at the previous scan, 16 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-20 (score 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 43 to 47. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 13 days of observed history at the previous scan, 14 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

## MCP tools (4)

### `chinaapi_estimate_cost` (~447 tokens)

Estimate a ChinaAPI cost

Estimate the USD cost of a workload on one model from its published per-meter prices: Standard, and Paid where it is lower. Pass quantities in the model's own units — tokens for text models, characters for speech synthesis, audio seconds for transcription, requests, images or video seconds for per-call and per-second models; a quantity the model does not price is refused. Tiered models are estimated tier by tier. The result is an estimate, not a quote.

Input parameters:

- `audio_input_tokens` (integer): Quantity in tokens for the audio_input meter (models billed in tokens).
- `audio_output_tokens` (integer): Quantity in tokens for the audio_output meter (models billed in tokens).
- `audio_seconds` (integer): Quantity in audio seconds for the input meter (models billed in audio_duration).
- `cache_read_tokens` (integer): Quantity in tokens for the cache_read meter (models billed in tokens).
- `cache_write_1h_tokens` (integer): Quantity in tokens for the cache_write_1h meter (models billed in tokens).
- `cache_write_tokens` (integer): Quantity in tokens for the cache_write meter (models billed in tokens).
- `characters` (integer): Quantity in characters for the input meter (models billed in characters).
- `context_tokens` (integer): Input context length used to choose a context-length tier. Only for models whose tiers depend on context length; defaults to the input and cache tokens.
- `image_input_tokens` (integer): Quantity in tokens for the image_input meter (models billed in tokens).
- `image_output_tokens` (integer): Quantity in tokens for the image_output meter (models billed in tokens).
- `images` (integer): Quantity in images for the image_n meter.
- `input_tokens` (integer): Quantity in tokens for the input meter (models billed in tokens).
- `model` (string, required): Exact, case-sensitive model ID as returned by chinaapi_list_models.
- `output_tokens` (integer): Quantity in tokens for the output meter (models billed in tokens).
- `requests` (integer): Quantity in requests for the per_call meter.
- `video_seconds` (integer): Quantity in seconds for the video_second meter.

### `chinaapi_get_model` (~102 tokens)

Get a ChinaAPI model

Get one model by its exact ID: base URL and endpoints, the Standard and Paid price snapshot per meter with the time it was read and the price-book versions, context window and modalities, capability contract, limits, and ChinaAPI links (model page, a start link to try it, the agents guide). The live price on the model page is authoritative.

Input parameters:

- `model` (string, required): Exact, case-sensitive model ID as returned by chinaapi_list_models.

### `chinaapi_get_recipe` (~214 tokens)

Get a ChinaAPI request recipe

Get a runnable request for one model — endpoint, headers, JSON body or multipart form, a curl command, and for video the polling step — exactly as ChinaAPI's /agents page shows it. Optionally include the configuration that points a coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, …) at ChinaAPI. The request uses $CHINAAPI_KEY; never put a real key into it.

Input parameters:

- `agent` (string): Also return the configuration that points this coding agent at ChinaAPI, as ChinaAPI's /agents page shows it.
- `capability` (string): Which of the model's capabilities the request is for; defaults to its first published capability.
- `model` (string, required): Exact, case-sensitive model ID as returned by chinaapi_list_models.
- `protocol` (string): Inbound protocol for text models: openai (/v1/chat/completions), anthropic (/v1/messages) or responses (/v1/responses). Defaults to the agent's protocol, else openai.

### `chinaapi_list_models` (~221 tokens)

List ChinaAPI models

List the models ChinaAPI serves, optionally filtered by capability, task, maker or a model-ID substring. Each entry has the exact model ID, maker, capabilities and tasks, context window, headline Standard prices (and Paid prices where they are lower) and the model's ChinaAPI page. Sorted by maker, then model ID; page with cursor. Use chinaapi_get_model for one model's endpoints, full prices and limits.

Input parameters:

- `capability` (string): Capability direction: text-multimodal (chat, reasoning, coding, vision), image, video, audio-speech or decision.
- `cursor` (string): next_cursor from the previous page.
- `limit` (integer): Models per page.
- `maker` (string): Maker name exactly as returned in maker (case-insensitive), e.g. DeepSeek.
- `query` (string): Case-insensitive substring of the model ID.
- `task` (string): A task within a capability, e.g. image-to-video or transcription. Must belong to capability when both are given.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-chinaapi-chinaapi/api#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-04: 83
- 2026-11-03: 82
- 2026-11-02: 82
- 2026-11-01: 81
- 2026-10-31: 81
- 2026-10-30: 81
- 2026-10-29: 80
- 2026-10-28: 80
- 2026-10-27: 79
- 2026-10-26: 79
- 2026-10-25: 78
- 2026-10-24: 78
- 2026-10-23: 77
- 2026-10-22: 77
- 2026-10-21: 76
- 2026-10-20: 76
- 2026-10-19: 75
- 2026-10-18: 75
- 2026-10-17: 74
- 2026-10-16: 74
- 2026-10-15: 74
- 2026-10-14: 73
- 2026-10-13: 73
- 2026-10-12: 72
- 2026-10-10: 71
- 2026-10-06: 69

## Common questions

### What is the ChinaAPI MCP server?

ChinaAPI is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as ai.chinaapi/chinaapi. Read-only ChinaAPI model catalogue, price snapshot, cost estimates and request recipes. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://api.chinaapi.ai/mcp).

### Is the ChinaAPI MCP server safe to use?

ChinaAPI scores 83 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the ChinaAPI MCP server expose?

ChinaAPI exposes 4 tools: chinaapi_estimate_cost, chinaapi_get_model, chinaapi_get_recipe, chinaapi_list_models. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 984 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the ChinaAPI MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to ChinaAPI without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the ChinaAPI MCP server still maintained?

ChinaAPI is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 4 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://api.chinaapi.ai/mcp
- Website: https://dash.chinaapi.ai/agents
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-chinaapi-chinaapi/api.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-chinaapi-chinaapi/api.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-chinaapi-chinaapi/api