Nvidia Nim MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 56 installs a week from npm. Last commit 17 Aug 2026.
MCP server for NVIDIA NIM - 50+ LLMs, multimodal, image gen, embeddings, reranking
We read the source, 21 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df
What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.
postinstall: node scripts/postinstall.js
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We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.
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.
claude mcp add nvidia-nim-mcp -- npx -y nvidia-nim-mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"nvidia-nim-mcp": {
"args": [
"-y",
"nvidia-nim-mcp"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}
[mcp_servers.nvidia-nim-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "nvidia-nim-mcp"]
{
"mcpServers": {
"nvidia-nim-mcp": {
"args": [
"-y",
"nvidia-nim-mcp"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"nvidia-nim-mcp": {
"args": [
"-y",
"nvidia-nim-mcp"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}
This one needs environment variables set before it will start:
NVIDIA_API_KEY (Your NVIDIA API key for accessing NIM models. Get one at https://build.nvidia.com), NVIDIA_NIM_BASE_URL (Base URL for self-hosted NIM endpoints), NVIDIA_AI_FOUNDATION_URL (Base URL for NVIDIA AI Foundation Models (free tier available)), DEFAULT_MODEL (Default model to use for chat/text generation), ENABLE_IMAGE_GENERATION (Enable image generation tools), ENABLE_VISION (Enable vision/image analysis tools), ENABLE_MULTIMODAL (Enable multimodal tools).
The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.
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