apimodels MCP server

apimodels-mcp

MCP server for apimodels.app — call image, video, LLM chat and text-to-speech models with one API key, from Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP client.

One key unlocks GPT-5.5, Claude, Gemini, GLM, DeepSeek, Qwen, Seedance, Veo, Kling, gpt-image-2, Gemini Image, MiniMax speech and more — billed in USD, you only pay for successful generations.

Tools

The model can check its own work

Ask for an image and let the assistant iterate until it is right — "make a 16:9 banner that says SAVE 10%, check the spelling, fix it if needed":

1. generateimage returns the URL and a preview of the image itself (max 1024px JPEG). Clients that pass tool-result images to the model — Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor — let it see what it made. Pass returnimage: false to skip the preview.
2. review_image works everywhere, including clients that show tool-result images to you but not to the model (Cherry Studio is one). It sends the image and your brief to a vision model and returns what matches, what is wrong (garbled text, composition, aspect ratio, artifacts) and a revised prompt. One review costs well under $0.01 on the default gpt-5.6-luna.

The assistant picks aspect_ratio and resolution itself from what you ask for, so "make it 16:9" in plain words is enough.

Local images just work

imageurl on generateimage and generate_video takes any of these:

• a public https://… URL — passed through untouched
• a local file path — /Users/me/photo.png, ./ref.jpg, ~/Pictures/x.webp
• a URL on your own machine — http://127.0.0.1:8000/photo.png, http://localhost:3000/…
• a data:image/png;base64,… URI

The last three are uploaded for you first, and the resulting public URL is what gets generated from. This has to happen here rather than server-side: the file exists only on your machine, and 127.0.0.1 means our server when our server resolves it — which is why passing one to the REST API directly fails with private/reserved IP addresses not allowed. This MCP server runs next to your files, so it can do what our servers cannot.

Uploads land in your account's R2 space and are auto-deleted after 7 days.

Setup

1. Get an API key at (it looks like sk_…).
2. Add the server to your MCP client.

Claude Desktop

Edit claudedesktopconfig.json (Settings → Developer → Edit Config):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apimodels": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "apimodels-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "APIMODELS_API_KEY": "sk_your_key_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. You can now ask it to "generate an image of …" or "make a 5-second video of …".

Cursor

Settings → MCP → Add new MCP server, or add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apimodels": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "apimodels-mcp"],
      "env": { "APIMODELS_API_KEY": "sk_your_key_here" }
    }
  }
}

Cherry Studio

In Settings → MCP Servers, add a new server of type stdio:

• Command: npx
• Arguments: -y apimodels-mcp
• Environment variables: APIMODELSAPIKEY=skyourkey_here

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.