Cheapest LLM API
REMOTE · CHEAPESTLLMAPI.COM
Compare LLM API prices, search models and providers, and access reviewed benchmark results.
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Last scanned (3 hours ago)
Scores higher than 10% of remote servers
Reachable. Last reached 5 Nov 2026.
Category AI and Machine Learning
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. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Endpoint Security60
- The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key. View diagnostics → Pass
- Authorisation not yet verified: we couldn't confirm whether this endpoint requires it. View diagnostics → Unverified
- HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path. View diagnostics → Pass
- HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- DNSSEC is configured correctly; the domain's records validate against the full chain to the root. View diagnostics → Pass
Transport & Reachability0
- Transport check failed: declared streamable-http, but the endpoint returned HTTP 405. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
Schema Quality & AI Usability0
- Schema not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's schema, or could read only part of its tool list.Unverified
Stability & Change Management0
- Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).Unverified
Tool Coverage0
- Tool coverage not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's tools, or could read only part of the list.Unverified
Tool Safety0
- Tool safety not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's tools, or could read only part of the list.Unverified
Capabilities0
- Capabilities not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's capabilities.Unverified
Unverified: 5 categories
Categories scored 0 because we could not verify them: authentication we do not have, an unreachable endpoint, or not enough scan history. 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.
- 23 Oct 26 −51
- Endpoint reachability: reachable → not serving MCP ▼ security
- Stability: 0.60 → unverified ▼ security
- Authorization: partial → unverified ▼ security
- Tool safety: pass → unverified ▼ security
- Transport: pass → fail ▼ security
- Capabilities: pass → unverified ▼ functional
- Tool coverage: 100 → unverified ▼ functional
- 22 Oct 26 +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.
- 21 Oct 26 +40
- Authorization: unverified → partial ▲ security
- Injection markers: unverified → pass ▲ security
- Endpoint reachability: not serving MCP → reachable ▲ functional
- Tool coverage: unverified → 100 ▲ functional
- Stability: unverified → 0.57 ▲ functional
- MCP protocol: unverified → pass ▲ functional
- 20 Oct 26 +10
- Transport: fail → pass ▲ security
- 19 Oct 26 −49
- Endpoint reachability: reachable → not serving MCP ▼ security
- Stability: 0.47 → unverified ▼ security
- Authorization: partial → unverified ▼ security
- Tool safety: pass → unverified ▼ security
- Transport: pass → fail ▼ security
- Capabilities: pass → unverified ▼ functional
- Tool coverage: 100 → unverified ▼ functional
- First check of Schema quality: unverified functional
- 18 Oct 26 +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.
- 15 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 33 to 37. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 10 days of observed history at the previous scan, 11 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 14 Oct 26 −2
- The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads security
- Tool “execute” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Tool “offer_compare” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Schema quality: pass → fail ▼ functional
- Tool coverage: 0% → 15% ▲ functional
- Schema quality: excellent → good functional
- Server version: 1.1.0 → 1.2.0 functional
- New tool “coding_agent_detail” functional
- New tool “coding_agent_list” functional
- New tool “coding_agent_releases” functional
- New tool “coding_agent_upgrade” functional
- New tool “price_watch” functional
- “offer_compare” added an optional parameter “average_input_tokens” cosmetic
- “offer_compare” added an optional parameter “average_output_tokens” cosmetic
- “offer_compare” added an optional parameter “benchmark_id” cosmetic
- “offer_compare” added an optional parameter “cache_hit_percent” cosmetic
- “offer_compare” added an optional parameter “cache_write_percent” cosmetic
- “offer_compare” added an optional parameter “execution” cosmetic
- “offer_compare” added an optional parameter “limit” cosmetic
- “offer_compare” added an optional parameter “minimum_context_tokens” cosmetic
- “offer_compare” added an optional parameter “minimum_score” cosmetic
- “offer_compare” added an optional parameter “offset” cosmetic
- “offer_compare” added an optional parameter “open_weights” cosmetic
- “offer_compare” added an optional parameter “require_known_host” cosmetic
- “offer_compare” added an optional parameter “require_official_prices” cosmetic
- “offer_compare” added an optional parameter “required_capabilities” cosmetic
- “offer_compare” added an optional parameter “retry_percent” cosmetic
- “offer_compare” added an optional parameter “route_type” cosmetic
- “offer_compare” added an optional parameter “task” cosmetic
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 5 Nov 2026 · Probed https://cheapestllmapi.com/mcp
TLS valid
Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .
| Subject | Issuer | Valid from | Valid until | Key | Signature | Serial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN=cheapestllmapi.com | CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US | 2 Nov 2026 | 31 Jan 2027 | ECDSA 256 | ECDSA-SHA256 | 1954c8050a9709d20ec54cde0ae055b0 |
| SANs: cheapestllmapi.com, www.cheapestllmapi.com, *.www.cheapestllmapi.com | ||||||
| CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US (CA) | CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US | 13 Dec 2023 | 20 Feb 2029 | ECDSA 256 | ECDSA-SHA384 | 7ff31977972c224a76155d13b6d685e3 |
| CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US (CA) | CN=GlobalSign Root CA,OU=Root CA,O=GlobalSign nv-sa,C=BE | 15 Nov 2023 | 28 Jan 2028 | ECDSA 384 | SHA256-RSA | 7fe530bf331343bedd821610493d8a1b |
Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →
DNSSEC secure
Validation of cheapestllmapi.com. — Secure
| Zone | DS | Keys | Algorithms | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| . | trust_anchor | 20326, 38696 | 8, 8 | Verified |
| com. | present | 19718 | 13 | Verified |
| cheapestllmapi.com. | present | 2371 | 13 | Verified |
| cheapestllmapi.com. | Verified address RRset verified with the apex keys |
Authentication Inconclusive
We could not reach the endpoint well enough to judge its authorisation posture.
| Result | Inconclusive |
|---|---|
| HTTP status | 405 |
| Header | Value |
|---|---|
| x-content-type-options | nosniff |
Background: How OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 MCP spec →
Transports 2 probes
| Transport | URL | Outcome | Status | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| streamable-http | https://cheapestllmapi.com/mcp | HTTP error | 405 | |
| http (plaintext) | http://cheapestllmapi.com/mcp | HTTPS enforced | 301 | https://cheapestllmapi.com/mcp |
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 →
benchmark_list Discover reviewed benchmarks ~41
Discover exact benchmark IDs, editions, score units, configurations, provenance, and reviewed result counts before calling benchmark_results. Empty benchmarks are retained with resultCount 0.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| data | object | yes | – |
| meta | object | yes | – |
No examples provided.
benchmark_results Get benchmark results ~79
Get reviewed scores for an exact benchmark_id from benchmark_list. Join result.modelId to catalog_search model.id. Compare scores only within the same benchmark edition and configuration. Includes source provenance and reported coding-agent usage when published. Follow pagination.hasMore.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| benchmark_id | string | yes | – |
| limit | integer | – | – |
| offset | integer | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| data | object | yes | – |
| meta | object | yes | – |
| pagination | object | yes | – |
No examples provided.
catalog_search Search LLM catalog ~100
Find canonical model slugs, context limits, and provider prices. Optional provider_slug filters availability, not the provider in bestOffer. bestOffer is selected for 10M input + 2M output tokens; use offer_compare for your workload. Follow pagination.hasMore.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| category_slug | string | – | – |
| page | integer | – | – |
| page_size | integer | – | – |
| provider_slug | string | – | – |
| query | string | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| data | object | yes | – |
| meta | object | yes | – |
| pagination | object | yes | – |
No examples provided.
coding_agent_detail Get a coding agent ~63
Get a coding-agent profile by agent_slug from coding_agent_list, including official source, latest stable release, freshness, and history coverage. An unavailable archive is explicit in state. This does not assert product benchmark rankings or subscription prices.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| agent_slug | string | yes | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| data | object | yes | – |
| meta | object | yes | – |
No examples provided.
coding_agent_list List coding agents ~73
List coding-agent profiles, interfaces, model access, official sources, latest stable release, archive counts, freshness, coverage limits, and sourced model/provider compatibility, BYOK, billing and setup facts. Includes agents whose release archive is unavailable; inspect state. Use coding_agent_releases to page through source-linked changelogs.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| data | object | yes | – |
| meta | object | yes | – |
No examples provided.
coding_agent_releases Search coding-agent changelogs ~148
Search archived coding-agent releases by agent_slug, query (title, version, excerpt), topic, and channel. Stable only by default; channel all includes prereleases. Newest first; advance offset by limit while pagination.hasMore. Includes source URLs, abbreviated excerpts, and per-agent freshness/coverage. Topics are keyword mentions, not assessments. Partial coverage is explicit in meta.completeness; all unavailable returns an error. Archives reflect configured source history, not every product announcement.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| agent_slug | string | – | – |
| channel | string | – | – |
| limit | integer | – | – |
| offset | integer | – | – |
| query | string | – | – |
| topic | string | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| data | object | yes | – |
| meta | object | yes | – |
| pagination | object | yes | – |
No examples provided.
coding_agent_upgrade Changes since an installed agent version ~156
Find archived changes published after an installed version or exact release ID. Get agent_slug and source_id from coding_agent_detail; default source_id is primary. Only the same publisher source and recognizable product stream are compared. Stable only by default; use channel all for prereleases. The ready response is publication order, not semantic-version precedence or an upgrade safety assessment; backports may appear. An unknown or ambiguous baseline is explicit in data.status, never treated as no changes. Follow data.pagination.hasMore with offset and limit.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| agent_slug | string | yes | – |
| channel | string | – | – |
| installed | string | yes | – |
| limit | integer | – | – |
| offset | integer | – | – |
| source_id | string | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| data | object | yes | – |
| meta | object | yes | – |
No examples provided.
execute Run catalog code ~241
Run a JavaScript async function in an isolated sandbox, composing catalog_search, model_detail, offer_compare, benchmark_results, provider_list, benchmark_list, coding_agent_list, coding_agent_detail, coding_agent_releases, coding_agent_upgrade, and price_watch as catalog.* methods. Return a small JSON value. Example: async () => { const page = await catalog.catalog_search({query: 'claude', page_size: 5}); return page.data.models.map(m => ({slug: m.slug, prices: m.bestOffer?.prices})); }. No network, secrets, or database binding is exposed. Shared worldwide execution budgets: 100 per UTC minute and 5000 per UTC day. Limits: 30 executions per client per minute (IPv6 /64), 20 catalog calls and read units (offer_compare and price_watch use 5), at most two concurrent calls, 5 seconds wall time, 50ms sandbox CPU, 32KiB code, 64KiB JSON output. JavaScript only; no imports or TypeScript syntax. Use /mcp?mode=code for only search + execute.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| code | string | yes | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| calls | integer | yes | – |
| logs | array | yes | – |
| result | – | yes | – |
No examples provided.
model_detail Get model details ~60
Get capabilities, context/output limits, and current sourced provider offers by model_slug from catalog_search. Prices are base-context rates; long-context tiers, cache writes, batch discounts, and free-tier quotas can change actual cost.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| model_slug | string | yes | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| data | object | yes | – |
| meta | object | yes | – |
No examples provided.
offer_compare Compare provider offers ~380
Rank current chat offers for up to five canonical model slugs with the website calculator: context-tier prices, cache reads/writes, retries, supported batch rates, capability/benchmark requirements, provider/route preferences, and evidence filters. Input totals include cache shares; cache_hit_percent plus cache_write_percent must be <=100. Average request sizes determine tiers and capacity. Batch is Anthropic direct only. Unknown required evidence excludes offers; missing cache-read rates use standard input rates. Inspect costs, qualification, warnings, assumptions, excludedModels, and pagination.hasMore. Free quotas, non-token fees, and media token accounting are excluded.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| average_input_tokens | integer | – | – |
| average_output_tokens | integer | – | – |
| benchmark_id | string | – | – |
| cache_hit_percent | number | – | – |
| cache_write_percent | number | – | – |
| execution | string | – | Batch supports Anthropic direct routes with a published 50% token discount; unsupported routes are excluded. |
| input_tokens | integer | – | – |
| limit | integer | – | – |
| minimum_context_tokens | integer | – | – |
| minimum_score | number | – | Zero disables score qualification; a positive threshold excludes missing exact benchmark matches. |
| model_slugs | array | yes | – |
| offset | integer | – | – |
| open_weights | boolean | – | – |
| output_tokens | integer | – | – |
| provider_slugs | array | – | – |
| require_known_host | boolean | – | Exclude routes without a named underlying inference provider. |
| require_official_prices | boolean | – | Require official paired input/output price verification. Cache rates may have different source provenance. |
| required_capabilities | array | – | – |
| retry_percent | number | – | – |
| route_type | string | – | – |
| task | string | – | Coding requires the code capability; extraction requires structured output. Every offer must support chat. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| assumptions | array | yes | – |
| data | object | yes | – |
| meta | object | yes | – |
| pagination | object | yes | – |
| requirements | object | yes | – |
| workload | object | yes | – |
No examples provided.
price_watch Check workload price savings ~363
Read current offers meeting a monthly baseline_usd minus minimum_saving_usd. Uses the same workload, qualifications and evidence filters as offer_compare. Omit model_slugs to watch all qualifying models. Returns up to 50 cheapest matches; no account or delivery subscription is created. The same query is available as RSS at /api/v1/price-watch/feed.xml; your RSS reader handles polling and notifications. Inspect offer warnings before switching.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| average_input_tokens | integer | – | – |
| average_output_tokens | integer | – | – |
| baseline_usd | number | yes | – |
| benchmark_id | string | – | – |
| cache_hit_percent | number | – | – |
| cache_write_percent | number | – | – |
| execution | string | – | Batch supports Anthropic direct routes with a published 50% token discount; unsupported routes are excluded. |
| input_tokens | integer | – | – |
| limit | integer | – | – |
| minimum_context_tokens | integer | – | – |
| minimum_saving_usd | number | yes | – |
| minimum_score | number | – | Zero disables score qualification; a positive threshold excludes missing exact benchmark matches. |
| model_slugs | array | – | – |
| offset | integer | – | – |
| open_weights | boolean | – | – |
| output_tokens | integer | – | – |
| provider_slugs | array | – | – |
| require_known_host | boolean | – | Exclude routes without a named underlying inference provider. |
| require_official_prices | boolean | – | Require official paired input/output price verification. Cache rates may have different source provenance. |
| required_capabilities | array | – | – |
| retry_percent | number | – | – |
| route_type | string | – | – |
| task | string | – | Coding requires the code capability; extraction requires structured output. Every offer must support chat. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| assumptions | array | yes | – |
| data | object | yes | – |
| meta | object | yes | – |
| pagination | object | yes | – |
| requirements | object | yes | – |
| watch | object | yes | – |
| workload | object | yes | – |
No examples provided.
provider_list List inference providers ~48
Discover accepted provider slugs, roles, and current comparable model/offer counts. Provider minimum input and output prices are independent minima and may belong to different models; use offer_compare for an actual quote.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| data | object | yes | – |
| meta | object | yes | – |
No examples provided.
How do I install the Cheapest LLM API MCP server?
Cheapest LLM API is a hosted endpoint at https://cheapestllmapi.com/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.
remote · cheapestllmapi.com
claude mcp add --transport http tehtelabs-cheapestllmapi 'https://cheapestllmapi.com/mcp'
What is the Cheapest LLM API MCP server?
Cheapest LLM API is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.tehtelabs/cheapestllmapi. Compare LLM API prices, search models and providers, and access reviewed benchmark results. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://cheapestllmapi.com/mcp).
Is the Cheapest LLM API MCP server safe to use?
Cheapest LLM API scores 24 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 Cheapest LLM API MCP server expose?
Cheapest LLM API exposes 12 tools: catalog_search, model_detail, offer_compare, benchmark_results, provider_list, and 7 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,752 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Does the Cheapest LLM API MCP server require authentication?
Its publisher declares no required credentials for Cheapest LLM API. We have not been able to confirm that against the live endpoint, and a server can require authorisation without declaring it here.
Is the Cheapest LLM API MCP server still maintained?
Cheapest LLM API is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.