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NovAI Prices MCP Server

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NovAI Prices is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 3 tools. Last commit 30 Oct 2026.

Live prices for 111 Chinese models; batch cost calculators for video and images.

Uptime history 12 days of history · worst day 99%
12 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
914 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 30 Oct 2026

What changed 5

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 30 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

2 Nov 3 tool descriptions were rewritten cheapest_models, list_categories, model_price
30 Oct 2 tool descriptions were rewritten cheapest_models, model_price

What the code does

We read the source, 3 d ago · tools taken from the live server · rules 995398eba69f

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.

Runs an external command smoke.py:18
p = subprocess.run([sys.executable, SERVER], input=payload.encode(), capture_output=True, timeout=120)

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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

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add novai-prices --transport http https://aiapi-pro.com/api/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://aiapi-pro.com/api/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.novai-prices]
url = "https://aiapi-pro.com/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "novai-prices": {
      "url": "https://aiapi-pro.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "novai-prices": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://aiapi-pro.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

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

categories
list_categories
List the model categories available in NovAI's price feed (Chat / LLM, Video, Image, Audio, 3D, Embedding) with the number of models in each. Use this first when the category for a request is unclear, then call cheapest_models with that category. Machine-readable feed: https://aiapi-pro.com/china-ai-leaderboard.json
cheapest
cheapest_models
List the cheapest Chinese AI models from NovAI's live price feed, ranked by a comparable cost unit (text: 1M input + 200K output; video: 5-second clip; image: per image). Use this when the user asks which model is cheapest, wants to compare costs, or is choosing a model by budget. For a batch cost estimate at list price, see https://aiapi-pro.com/video-cost-calculator (video) and https://aiapi-pro.com/image-cost-calculator (images).
model
model_price
Look up the NovAI list price of a Chinese AI model by name fragment (seedance, kimi, glm, qwen, doubao, hunyuan, minimax...). Use this when the user asks what a specific model costs, or wants a price before choosing one. Returns the provider list price, the unit (per 1M tokens / per image / per generation) and the model id. Per-minute video costs with every row sourced: https://aiapi-pro.com/video-cost-2026

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://aiapi-pro.com/api/mcp streamable-http answering 866 ms 5 min ago

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NovAI Prices — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can NovAI Prices do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: cheapest_models, list_categories, model_price. 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 NovAI Prices 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 914 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect NovAI Prices?
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 is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does NovAI Prices need an API key?
No. NovAI Prices completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is NovAI Prices?
It answers our handshake in 914 ms on average, which is faster than 8% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is NovAI Prices open source?
We cannot say either way: written in Python, 0 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.