apifare-mcp

# apifare-mcp

One prepaid balance for everything your agent calls — 4,900+ ready-to-run
tools plus search, filings, registries and weather, under per-agent caps,
a kill switch, and a signed receipt for every call. This repo is the
public installer for the [`apifare-mcp`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/apifare-mcp)
MCP server (the gateway itself lives at [apifare.com](https://apifare.com)).

## Start in two steps

1. **Get a key** — [apifare.com/start](https://apifare.com/start?origin=github-mcp)
   (email in, key out, $5 of calls free).
2. **Give it to your agent** — one config entry:

### Cline / Claude Desktop / any stdio MCP client

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apifare": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "apifare-mcp"],
      "env": { "APIPAY_TOKEN": "<your token>" }
    }
  }
}
```

### Remote (streamable HTTP)

URL `https://apifare.com/mcp` with header `Authorization: Bearer <your token>`.

**Shortcut** — a web-capable agent can do both steps itself: paste
`read https://apifare.com/llms.txt and get yourself a key` into its chat.

Tools also answer **tokenless** with guided signup instructions, so the
server is safe to add before you have a key.

Note: `APIPAY_TOKEN` is the env var name (legacy install id — do not
rename); the npm id `apipay-mcp` still installs the same server.

Docs: [llms.txt](https://apifare.com/llms.txt) ·
[error catalog](https://apifare.com/errors) ·
[prices](https://apifare.com/capabilities) (the listed number is the
billed number, CI-enforced) · [terms](https://apifare.com/terms) ·
[privacy](https://apifare.com/privacy)