MCP Pay Gate MCP Server

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MCP Pay Gate runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 34 installs a week from npm. Last commit 12 May 2026.

Dual-rail Lightning paywall for MCP servers: accepts L402 and x402 bip122/exact, one LNBits backend.

Installs per day peak 8 · avg 2 · +467% w/w

a month agotoday

Installs / week

npm · @powforge/mcp-pay-gate

Stars

0 open issues

12 May 2026

Last commit

no releases in 90 days

MIT

License

JavaScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check MCP Pay Gate every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp-pay-gate -- npx -y @powforge/mcp-pay-gate

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-pay-gate": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@powforge/mcp-pay-gate"
      ]
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp-pay-gate]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@powforge/mcp-pay-gate"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-pay-gate": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@powforge/mcp-pay-gate"
      ]
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "mcp-pay-gate": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@powforge/mcp-pay-gate"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: POW_GATE_URL (PowForge L402 gate base URL used by the default verifyL402Fn. Override for self-hosted deployments).

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MCP Pay Gate — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for MCP Pay Gate?

MCP Pay Gate 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 npm package @powforge/mcp-pay-gate was installed 34 times last week.

How do I connect MCP Pay Gate?

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 @powforge/mcp-pay-gate straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use MCP Pay Gate?

The npm package @powforge/mcp-pay-gate was installed 34 times in the last week. Week over week that is +467%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is MCP Pay Gate open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript and 0 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.