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Alephant MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 77 installs a week from npm. Last commit 16 May 2026.

Alephant MCP server for AI cost control, BYO-key routing, 50+ providers, and 320+ models.

Installs per day peak 25 · avg 14 · +33% w/w
a month agotoday
77
Installs / week
npm · @alephantai/mcp
0
Stars
0 open issues
16 May 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
License
TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Alephant MCP every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add alephant-mcp -- npx -y @alephantai/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alephant-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@alephantai/mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.alephant-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@alephantai/mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alephant-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@alephantai/mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alephant-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@alephantai/mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: ALEPHANT_API_BASE_URL (Alephant SaaS API base URL, for example https://alephant.io.), ALEPHANT_VIRTUAL_KEY (Virtual Key for read-only, cockpit-scoped VK mode. Use this mode for developer-level cost and usage visibility.), ALEPHANT_PAT (Personal Access Token for Manager mode. When set, Manager mode takes precedence over ALEPHANT_VIRTUAL_KEY.), ALEPHANT_WORKSPACE_ID (Workspace UUID required with ALEPHANT_PAT for Manager mode.), ALEPHANT_RATE_LIMIT_RPM (Optional local HTTP tool-call limit per minute. Defaults to 60; set 0 to disable local throttling.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Alephant MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Alephant MCP?
Alephant MCP runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package @alephantai/mcp was installed 77 times last week.
How do I connect Alephant MCP?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls @alephantai/mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Alephant MCP?
The npm package @alephantai/mcp was installed 77 times in the last week. Week over week that is +33%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Alephant MCP open source?
We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.