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Cheaplane MCP Server

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Cheaplane runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 80 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 16 Aug 2026.

Offload grunt work from your premium agent to cheap models — auto-routing and billing isolation.

Installs per day peak 571 · avg 42 · -18% w/w
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80
Installs / week
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16 Aug 2026
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MIT
License
Python

What the code does

We read the source, 19 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

Capabilities

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.

Dumps the whole environment probe.py:20, [пакет] probe.py:20
    params = StdioServerParameters(command=PY, args=[SERVER], env=dict(os.environ))

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

This code can reach further than it looks

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.

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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 cheaplane -- uvx cheaplane
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cheaplane": {
      "args": [
        "cheaplane"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.cheaplane]
command = "uvx"
args = ["cheaplane"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cheaplane": {
      "args": [
        "cheaplane"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cheaplane": {
      "args": [
        "cheaplane"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: DELEGATE_BASE_URL (OpenAI-compatible endpoint serving the cheap models — usually a local LiteLLM proxy.), DELEGATE_API_KEY (Key for that endpoint. A local proxy ignores it; set a real one for a hosted endpoint.), DELEGATE_TIMEOUT (Per-call timeout in seconds. Raise it for long documents.), DELEGATE_MODEL_MAP (JSON remapping the built-in aliases to your proxy's model names, e.g. {"deepseek": "deepseek-v4"}.), DELEGATE_NO_LOG (Set to 1 to disable the local savings ledger (metadata only, never task content).). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Cheaplane — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Cheaplane?
Cheaplane 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 pypi package cheaplane was installed 80 times last week.
How do I connect Cheaplane?
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 cheaplane straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Cheaplane?
The pypi package cheaplane was installed 80 times in the last week. Week over week that is -18%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Cheaplane open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 1 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.