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AI API Radar MCP Server

com.dropwatchhq/ai-api-radar
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AI API Radar is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

Live LLM API price + status radar across 11 providers, with public per-model price HISTORY.

Uptime history 45 hours of history
45 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
68 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 11 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add ai-api-radar --transport http https://aiapi.dropwatchhq.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-api-radar": {
      "url": "https://aiapi.dropwatchhq.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.ai-api-radar]
url = "https://aiapi.dropwatchhq.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-api-radar": {
      "url": "https://aiapi.dropwatchhq.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-api-radar": {
      "url": "https://aiapi.dropwatchhq.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

price
price_change_alerts
Subscribe a webhook to fire when a provider changes prices (or read recent price changes). Pass `webhook` to subscribe (optionally filter by provider and direction 'cut'|'raise'); omit to read recent changes.
price_history
Return the dated $/M-token price history (input + output) for one model. This is AI API Radar's exclusive time-series — useful for spotting price-war cuts and trend.
cheapest
cheapest_model
Return the cheapest LLM API models that meet a constraint, ranked by blended $/M-token cost. Use this to route an agent to the lowest-cost model with enough context that is currently operational. Filter by minimum context window and provider; weight input vs output cost for your workload.
status
status
Current operational status for one or all AI API providers (from each provider's public status page).

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://aiapi.dropwatchhq.com/mcp streamable-http answering 75 ms 11 min ago

AI API Radar — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can AI API Radar do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: cheapest_model, price_change_alerts, price_history, status. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is AI API Radar working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 68 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect AI API Radar?
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 is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does AI API Radar need an API key?
No. AI API Radar completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is AI API Radar?
It answers our handshake in 68 ms on average, which is faster than 94% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.