AICostBudget AI API Pricing
NPM · AI-API-PRICING-MCP
Read-only source-linked AI API prices, comparisons, cost estimates, and price changes.
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Last scanned (1 hour ago)
Scores higher than 37% of npm servers
Category AI and Machine Learning
How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Supply Chain Security98
- No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
- No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
- No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
- 31 of 93 dependencies flagged as unhealthy. View diagnostics → Partial
Provenance & Transparency48
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 1 days ago).Pass
- Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability50
- AI-judged instruction clarity (fair).Partial
- Tool/resource definitions use about 249 tokens (~49/item across 5 items; 5 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management0
- Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).Unverified
Tool Coverage71
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 0% of tool parameters carry a description.Fail
- Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 5 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 5 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Unverified: 1 category
A category scored 0 because we could not verify it: a data source with nothing on this package, evidence we could not reach, or a check we could not run. We only credit what we can confirm.
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 22 Oct 26 +15
- Malware scan: unverified → pass ▲ security
- 21 Oct 26 49
First indexed and scored.
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Captured 23 Oct 2026 · Analysed npm/ai-api-pricing-mcp@0.1.0
Provenance No attestation
The registry publishes no build provenance for this version, so there is nothing to verify.
| Result | No attestation |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | npm |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
Dependencies 93 packages
| Packages resolved | 93 |
|---|---|
| Stale | 30 |
| No linked repository | 1 |
| Tree resolution | Complete |
Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
compare_models Compare models ~59
Compare monthly costs for multiple models and sort them from lowest to highest total.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| input_tokens_per_request | integer | yes | – |
| models | array | yes | – |
| output_tokens_per_request | integer | yes | – |
| requests_per_month | integer | yes | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| aicostbudget_url | string | yes | – |
| bundled_fallback | boolean | yes | – |
| data | object | yes | – |
| official_source_urls | array | yes | – |
| source | string | yes | – |
| verified_at | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
estimate_monthly_cost Estimate monthly cost ~79
Estimate monthly token cost from request volume, with optional cached-input and batch pricing.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| cached_input_ratio | number | – | – |
| input_tokens_per_request | integer | yes | – |
| model | string | yes | – |
| output_tokens_per_request | integer | yes | – |
| requests_per_month | integer | yes | – |
| use_batch | boolean | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| aicostbudget_url | string | yes | – |
| bundled_fallback | boolean | yes | – |
| data | object | yes | – |
| official_source_urls | array | yes | – |
| source | string | yes | – |
| verified_at | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
get_model_price Get model price ~30
Find a model by ID or display name and return source-linked prices.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| model | string | yes | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| aicostbudget_url | string | yes | – |
| bundled_fallback | boolean | yes | – |
| data | object | yes | – |
| official_source_urls | array | yes | – |
| source | string | yes | – |
| verified_at | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
list_models List models ~47
List source-linked models, optionally filtering by provider and maximum token prices.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| max_input_price | number | – | – |
| max_output_price | number | – | – |
| provider | string | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| aicostbudget_url | string | yes | – |
| bundled_fallback | boolean | yes | – |
| data | object | yes | – |
| official_source_urls | array | yes | – |
| source | string | yes | – |
| verified_at | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
price_changes Price changes ~34
List up to 20 newest source-linked price-change events.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| provider | string | – | – |
| since | string | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| aicostbudget_url | string | yes | – |
| bundled_fallback | boolean | yes | – |
| data | object | yes | – |
| official_source_urls | array | yes | – |
| source | string | yes | – |
| verified_at | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
How do I install the AICostBudget AI API Pricing MCP server?
AICostBudget AI API Pricing runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y ai-api-pricing-mcp. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
npm · ai-api-pricing-mcp
claude mcp add aicostbudget-ai-api-pricing-mcp -- npx -y ai-api-pricing-mcp
What is the AICostBudget AI API Pricing MCP server?
AICostBudget AI API Pricing is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.aicostbudget/ai-api-pricing-mcp. Read-only source-linked AI API prices, comparisons, cost estimates, and price changes. This page covers its npm package (ai-api-pricing-mcp).
Is the AICostBudget AI API Pricing MCP server safe to use?
AICostBudget AI API Pricing scores 64 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 23 October 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. 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 AICostBudget AI API Pricing MCP server expose?
AICostBudget AI API Pricing exposes 5 tools: get_model_price, list_models, estimate_monthly_cost, compare_models, price_changes. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 249 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the AICostBudget AI API Pricing MCP server still maintained?
AICostBudget AI API Pricing is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 23 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.
What licence is the AICostBudget AI API Pricing MCP server under?
AICostBudget AI API Pricing declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.