xpay Academic Research MCP Server

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xpay Academic Research is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. Last commit 14 Mar 2026.

30+ academic research tools. Semantic Scholar, arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, CrossRef, IACR.

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 0%

91 days agonow

0.0%

Uptime 24h

0 of 92 checks

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Tools

hidden behind auth

428 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 14 Mar 2026

xpay Academic Research does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 0.0% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 1 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add academic-research --transport http 'https://research.mcp.xpay.sh/mcp?key={api_key}'

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://research.mcp.xpay.sh/mcp?key={api_key}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.academic-research]
url = "https://research.mcp.xpay.sh/mcp?key={api_key}"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "academic-research": {
      "url": "https://research.mcp.xpay.sh/mcp?key={api_key}"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "academic-research": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://research.mcp.xpay.sh/mcp?key={api_key}"
    }
  }
}

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://research.mcp.xpay.sh/mcp?key={api_key}	streamable-http	answering	428 ms	1 min ago

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xpay Academic Research — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Is xpay Academic Research working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 92 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 428 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists xpay Academic Research as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

How do I connect xpay Academic Research?

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 xpay Academic Research need an API key?

No. xpay Academic Research completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

Is xpay Academic Research open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, 0 stars on GitHub and 2 open issues. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at research.mcp.xpay.sh, which runs on its operator's own terms.