NovAI Prices MCP server

<!-- mcp-name: io.github.vvvvking/novai-prices-mcp -->

novai-prices-mcp

Listed in the official MCP Registry as io.github.vvvvking/novai-prices — remote streamable-http endpoint: https://aiapi-pro.com/api/mcp

An MCP server that answers one question well: which Chinese AI model is cheapest for what I'm doing right now?

It reads NovAI's live price feed (https://aiapi-pro.com/china-ai-leaderboard.json) and normalizes every model into a comparable cost unit, because every provider quotes a different one:

Prices are the providers' list price passed through with a 1.0 multiplier and 0% platform markup — the server reports the rate card, not a sales number.

Tools

Run it

No dependencies beyond Python 3.9+:

python3 server.py

Claude Desktop / Cline / any MCP client

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "novai-prices": {
      "command": "python3",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/server.py"]
    }
  }
}

Example session

→ tools/call cheapest_models {"category": "video", "limit": 3}
← CogVideoX-Flash (Zhipu AI) — FREE
  PixVerse C1 Video API (PixVerse) — $0.154 per 5s clip (est.)
  PixVerse V6.0 Video API (PixVerse) — $0.203 per 5s clip (est.)

→ tools/call cheapest_models {"category": "chat / llm", "limit": 3}
← GLM-4.7-Flash — FREE
  DeepSeek V4 Flash — $0.080/1M in, $0.170/1M out ($0.11 per 1M-in/200K-out run)
  GLM-5.3-Flash — $0.080/1M in, $0.280/1M out

Why this exists

Price comparison for Chinese models is broken: one vendor quotes per second, another per token, a third per generation. Converting them by hand is error-prone, and every gateway's marketing page has an incentive to make its own numbers look good. This server just converts and sorts, and links to the machine-readable feed so the numbers can be checked.

Data freshness

The feed is regenerated daily from the live model catalog. generated_at is included in the JSON; if the upstream feed is unreachable the tool returns an error rather than stale numbers.

License

MIT