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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. 55 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 22 · avg 10 · -39% w/w
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55
Installs / week
pypi · cheaplane
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16 Aug 2026
Last commit
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MIT
License
Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Cheaplane 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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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": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "cheaplane"
      ]
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.cheaplane]
command = "uvx"
args = ["cheaplane"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cheaplane": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "cheaplane"
      ]
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "cheaplane": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "cheaplane"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: 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)).

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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 55 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 in the form 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 55 times in the last week. Week over week that is -39%. 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.