Multimodal runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 49 installs a week from npm. Last commit 5 Mar 2026.
Multi-provider media generation — images, video, audio, and transcription via a unified interface
Today is the operative word: we check Multimodal every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
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 multimodal -- npx -y @r16t/multimodal-mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"multimodal": {
"args": [
"-y",
"@r16t/multimodal-mcp"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}
[mcp_servers.multimodal]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@r16t/multimodal-mcp"]
{
"mcpServers": {
"multimodal": {
"args": [
"-y",
"@r16t/multimodal-mcp"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"multimodal": {
"args": [
"-y",
"@r16t/multimodal-mcp"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}
This one needs environment variables set before it will start:
OPENAI_API_KEY (OpenAI API key for image, video, audio generation and transcription), XAI_API_KEY (xAI API key for image and video generation), GEMINI_API_KEY (Google Gemini API key for image, video, and audio generation), ELEVENLABS_API_KEY (ElevenLabs API key for audio generation and transcription), BFL_API_KEY (BFL API key for FLUX image generation and editing), MEDIA_OUTPUT_DIR (Directory for saved media files (defaults to cwd)).
The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.
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