# AICostBudget AI API Pricing (npm · ai-api-pricing-mcp)

Read-only source-linked AI API prices, comparisons, cost estimates, and price changes.

- Trust score: 64/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-23

## Components

- npm · `ai-api-pricing-mcp`: 64/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/aicostbudget-ai-api-pricing-mcp/ai-api-pricing-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/aicostbudget-ai-api-pricing-mcp/ai-api-pricing-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `ai-api-pricing-mcp`
- Version: `0.1.0`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

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. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-10-23.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 98/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - 31 of 93 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 48/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published.
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 1 days ago).
  - Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 50/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (fair).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 249 tokens (~49/item across 5 items; 5 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- **Tool Coverage**: 71/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 0% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 5 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 supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

**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.

## Install

### 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.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add aicostbudget-ai-api-pricing-mcp -- npx -y ai-api-pricing-mcp
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aicostbudget-ai-api-pricing-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "ai-api-pricing-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "aicostbudget-ai-api-pricing-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "ai-api-pricing-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add aicostbudget-ai-api-pricing-mcp -- npx -y ai-api-pricing-mcp
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "aicostbudget-ai-api-pricing-mcp": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "ai-api-pricing-mcp"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add aicostbudget-ai-api-pricing-mcp --command npx --arg -y --arg ai-api-pricing-mcp
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  aicostbudget-ai-api-pricing-mcp:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "ai-api-pricing-mcp"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "aicostbudget-ai-api-pricing-mcp": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "ai-api-pricing-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add aicostbudget-ai-api-pricing-mcp -t stdio -c npx -a -y ai-api-pricing-mcp
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aicostbudget-ai-api-pricing-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "ai-api-pricing-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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.

### 2026-10-22 (score 64, +15)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

### 2026-10-21 (score 49)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (5)

### `get_model_price` (~30 tokens)

Get model price

Find a model by ID or display name and return source-linked prices.

Input parameters:

- `model` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `aicostbudget_url` (string)
- `bundled_fallback` (boolean)
- `data` (object)
- `official_source_urls` (array)
- `source` (string)
- `verified_at` (string)

### `list_models` (~47 tokens)

List models

List source-linked models, optionally filtering by provider and maximum token prices.

Input parameters:

- `max_input_price` (number)
- `max_output_price` (number)
- `provider` (string)

Output parameters:

- `aicostbudget_url` (string)
- `bundled_fallback` (boolean)
- `data` (object)
- `official_source_urls` (array)
- `source` (string)
- `verified_at` (string)

### `estimate_monthly_cost` (~79 tokens)

Estimate monthly cost

Estimate monthly token cost from request volume, with optional cached-input and batch pricing.

Input parameters:

- `cached_input_ratio` (number)
- `input_tokens_per_request` (integer, required)
- `model` (string, required)
- `output_tokens_per_request` (integer, required)
- `requests_per_month` (integer, required)
- `use_batch` (boolean)

Output parameters:

- `aicostbudget_url` (string)
- `bundled_fallback` (boolean)
- `data` (object)
- `official_source_urls` (array)
- `source` (string)
- `verified_at` (string)

### `compare_models` (~59 tokens)

Compare models

Compare monthly costs for multiple models and sort them from lowest to highest total.

Input parameters:

- `input_tokens_per_request` (integer, required)
- `models` (array, required)
- `output_tokens_per_request` (integer, required)
- `requests_per_month` (integer, required)

Output parameters:

- `aicostbudget_url` (string)
- `bundled_fallback` (boolean)
- `data` (object)
- `official_source_urls` (array)
- `source` (string)
- `verified_at` (string)

### `price_changes` (~34 tokens)

Price changes

List up to 20 newest source-linked price-change events.

Input parameters:

- `provider` (string)
- `since` (string)

Output parameters:

- `aicostbudget_url` (string)
- `bundled_fallback` (boolean)
- `data` (object)
- `official_source_urls` (array)
- `source` (string)
- `verified_at` (string)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/aicostbudget-ai-api-pricing-mcp/ai-api-pricing-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-23: 64
- 2026-10-22: 64
- 2026-10-21: 49

## Common questions

### 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.

## Links

- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ai-api-pricing-mcp
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/ai-api-pricing-mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/aicostbudget/ai-api-pricing-data
- Website: https://aicostbudget.com/en/datasets/ai-api-pricing
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/aicostbudget-ai-api-pricing-mcp/ai-api-pricing-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/aicostbudget-ai-api-pricing-mcp/ai-api-pricing-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/aicostbudget-ai-api-pricing-mcp/ai-api-pricing-mcp