Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

Passed 3/3 checks · Runs on your computer

First: which AI do you use?

ClaudeWeb · app · phoneChatGPTWebClaude CodeTerminalCursorCode editorVS CodeCode editorOtherOther apps

Pick your app and the steps appear below.

Works with Claude, with some setup first

Install Python (uv) on your computer first (one time) · Only the Claude desktop app (Windows or Mac), not the web or phone

Install Python (uv)
One time only; it works for every server that needs Python (uv)
Open the Python (uv) download page ↗
Done
Open the Claude desktop app’s settings file
SettingsDeveloperEdit Config
Done
Paste these settings and save the file
Checking the commands · copy buttons appear once they pass
Done
Quit Claude and open it again
Done
Try it
Use AI-Cost-CLI and tell me what you can do for me, then show me one thing
✓ If Claude says it is using AI-Cost-CLI or shows a AI-Cost-CLI tool in the answer, you are connected

Menu names checked against Anthropic’s help page on Nov 11, 2026 · your screen may differ slightly by app version

ChatGPT cannot connect AI-Cost-CLI yet

AI-Cost-CLI runs on your computer, but ChatGPT can only connect servers that run on the web

What you can do instead

A · Use an app that can connect AI-Cost-CLI

Steps for Claude →Install Python (uv) on your computer first (one time) · Only the Claude desktop app (Windows or Mac), not the web or phone
Steps for Claude Code →Install Python (uv) on your computer first (one time)
Steps for Cursor →Install Python (uv) on your computer first (one time)
Steps for VS Code →Install Python (uv) on your computer first (one time)

B · Others in Design, images & audio that work with ChatGPT

Picked from the most used in the same category, only ones that connect by address with no key

Pascal 3D Editor✓ ChatGPT
Semiotic✓ ChatGPT
TypeUI✓ ChatGPT

Works with Claude Code, with some setup first

Install Python (uv) on your computer first (one time)

Install Python (uv)
One time only; it works for every server that needs Python (uv)
Open the Python (uv) download page ↗
Done
Open Terminal
Mac: press Command+Space and type Terminal · Windows: open PowerShell
Done
Paste this command and press Enter
Checking the commands · copy buttons appear once they pass
Done
Type /mcp in Claude Code
You should see AI-Cost-CLI listed as connected
Done
Try it
Use AI-Cost-CLI and tell me what you can do for me, then show me one thing
✓ If Claude Code says it is using AI-Cost-CLI or shows a AI-Cost-CLI tool in the answer, you are connected

Menu names checked against Anthropic’s help page on Nov 11, 2026 · your screen may differ slightly by app version

Works with Cursor, with some setup first

Install Python (uv) on your computer first (one time)

Install Python (uv)
One time only; it works for every server that needs Python (uv)
Open the Python (uv) download page ↗
Done
Click this button to open Cursor
Checking the commands · copy buttons appear once they pass
Done
Open the AI chat in Cursor in Agent mode
Done
Try it
Use AI-Cost-CLI and tell me what you can do for me, then show me one thing
✓ If Cursor says it is using AI-Cost-CLI or shows a AI-Cost-CLI tool in the answer, you are connected

Menu names checked against Cursor’s help page on Nov 11, 2026 · your screen may differ slightly by app version

Works with VS Code, with some setup first

Install Python (uv) on your computer first (one time)

Install Python (uv)
One time only; it works for every server that needs Python (uv)
Open the Python (uv) download page ↗
Done
Click this button to open VS Code
Checking the commands · copy buttons appear once they pass
Done
Open the AI chat in VS Code in Agent mode
Done
Try it
Use AI-Cost-CLI and tell me what you can do for me, then show me one thing
✓ If VS Code says it is using AI-Cost-CLI or shows a AI-Cost-CLI tool in the answer, you are connected

Menu names checked against VS Code’s help page on Nov 11, 2026 · your screen may differ slightly by app version

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For developers: Terminal commands and JSON settings

Installed on your computer

Claude Code

Checking the commands · copy buttons appear once they pass

Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

Checking the commands · copy buttons appear once they pass

Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json)

Checking the commands · copy buttons appear once they pass

VS Code (mcp.json)

Checking the commands · copy buttons appear once they pass

These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.

Which apps can use it

Based on how this server connects and on each app’s own docs, checked Nov 10, 2026.

Run on your computer in

Claude Goose LM Studio Msty Studio Cherry Studio Cursor VS Code + GitHub Copilot Visual Studio Windsurf (Devin Desktop)Zed Kiro Cline Continue JetBrains AI Assistant Claude Code Codex CLI Gemini CLI OpenCode nodecode Warp LibreChat Raycast

All apps, with pros and cons →

What it can do

Runs on your computer; the tool list appears in your AI app after you install it.

Basic checksi

We check information anyone can see; we have not read the code. Checks that do not apply are left out of the count. · Checked Nov 13, 2026

✓ Pass
Maker matches the repo
The registry name was verified with the GitHub account ufhouck, which owns the repo
✓ Pass
Still maintained
Code last changed 12 days ago
✓ Pass
Has a licence
Uses MIT
– Not applicable
Endpoint responds
This one runs on your computer; there is no internet endpoint
– Not applicable
Sign-in with OAuth
Runs on your computer and uses local settings instead
… Not checked yet
No hidden instructions in tool descriptions
Runs on your computer; we can only read tool lists from internet endpoints

Discussion

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Compared with others in Design, images & audioi

More stars than 78% of the other 2985 servers in this category
Published to the registry more recently than 6% of the other 2985 servers in this category
Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 2985 servers in this category

Compared with every active server in this category in the registry. Stars count only when the publisher owns the repo.

Common questions

Is AI-Cost-CLI safe?

It passed 3 of 3 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

The registry does not list a required key, though some servers ask you to sign in on first use.

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

It runs on your computer. Your AI app starts it when needed, and data does not pass through the maker’s servers (unless it calls an online service itself).

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed 12 days ago, and the latest version (1.1.0) reached the registry 7 months ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. You also need Python (uv) on your computer.

What can I use instead?

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README from the maker

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AI-Cost-CLI

A terminal-based calculator and recommendation engine for AI API costs. Supports multiple providers, local currency conversion, and automated pricing updates.

Preview: Direct vs. Aggregator Comparison

Compare the effective cost of using models directly vs. through gateways like OpenRouter, including platform fees.

                    Comparison: gpt-4o vs openrouter/gpt-4o

┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ Attribute ┃ gpt-4o ┃ openrouter/gpt-4o ┃ ┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩ │ Provider │ OpenAI │ OpenRouter │ ├──────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Source │ Direct │ Aggregator │ ├──────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Platform Fee │ 0.0% │ 5.5% │ ├──────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Type │ text │ text │ ├──────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Input Cost │ 111.4775 TRY (1M) │ 117.6088 TRY (1M) │ ├──────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Output/Unit Cost │ 445.9100 TRY (1M) │ 470.4350 TRY (1M) │ └──────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘

Supported Models

Text Models

Model	Provider	Input/1M	Output/1M	Tags
Claude Opus 4.7	Anthropic	$5.00	$25.00	reasoning, coding, vision, agentic
GPT-5.5	OpenAI	$5.00	$30.00	multimodal, coding, agentic
GPT-5.5 Pro	OpenAI	$30.00	$180.00	precision, enterprise, agentic
Claude Sonnet 4.6	Anthropic	$3.00	$15.00	coding, fast, general
GPT-4o	OpenAI	$2.50	$10.00	reasoning, coding, vision
Gemini 3.1 Pro	Google	$2.00	$12.00	long-context, multimodal
DeepSeek R1	DeepSeek	$0.55	$2.19	reasoning, coding, smart
Gemini 2.5 Flash	Google	$0.30	$2.50	fast, reasoning, legacy
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite	Google	$0.25	$1.50	fast, cheap, agentic
DeepSeek V3	DeepSeek	$0.14	$0.28	general, coding, cheap

Image, Video & Audio Models

Model	Provider	Price	Type
Imagen 4 Fast	Google	$0.02/image	Image
GPT-Image-1	OpenAI	$0.02/image	Image
DALL-E 3	OpenAI	$0.04/image	Image
Imagen 4 Ultra	Google	$0.06/image	Image
Veo 3 Lite	Google	$0.05/sec	Video
Veo 3	Google	$0.40/sec	Video
Lyria 3 Clip	Google	$0.04/clip	Music
Lyria 3 Pro	Google	$0.08/song	Music
Whisper	OpenAI	$0.006/min	Speech-to-Text
TTS Standard	OpenAI	$15/1M chars	Text-to-Speech

Full list available via aicost list --currency USD

Features

Infrastructure Comparison: Compare Direct providers vs. Aggregators (OpenRouter) and Gateways (Portkey, LiteLLM, Martian).
Transparent Commissions: Automatically calculates platform fees (e.g., OpenRouter's 5.5% credit fee).
Direct Cost Calculation: Full breakdown of base costs and platform middle-layer fees.
Currency Conversion: Real-time conversion to local currencies (TRY, EUR, etc.) with offline fallback.
Automated Pricing: Weekly automated updates from official provider documentation.
MCP Server: Native support for AI agents (Cursor, Claude Desktop).

Installation

pip install aicost-cli

With MCP server support:

pip install aicost-cli[mcp]

Or from source:

git clone https://github.com/ufhouck/aicost.git

cd aicost pip install -e .

Usage

List All Models

aicost list --currency TRY

Calculate Cost

# Text model — token-based

aicost calc claude-opus-4.7 --input 1000000 --output 500000 --currency TRY

With platform fee breakdown (aggregators)

aicost calc openrouter/gpt-4o --input 1000000 --output 500000 --currency TRY

Output Example:

╭───────── Cost Calculation ──────────╮

│ Model: openrouter/gpt-4o │ │ Source: Aggregator │ │ │ │ Base Cost: 316.9976 TRY │ │ Platform Fee (5.5%): 17.4349 TRY │ │ │ │ Total Cost: 334.4325 TRY │ ╰─────────────────────────────────────╯

Compare Models

aicost compare claude-opus-4.7 gpt-5.5 --currency USD

Get Recommendations

aicost recommend "fast cheap coding" --currency USD

Sync Latest Pricing

aicost sync

MCP Server

Start the Model Context Protocol server for AI agent integration:

aicost mcp

Registries

PyPI
MCP Registry — io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli
Smithery.ai
Skills.sh

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on how to contribute, including pricing updates, bug reports, and code contributions.

Community

License

MIT — see LICENSE for details. Developed by Ufuk Aydın.

AI-Cost-CLI

What it does

Install

Install Python (uv)

Open the Claude desktop app’s settings file

Paste these settings and save the file

Quit Claude and open it again

Try it

What you can do instead

Install Python (uv)

Open Terminal

Paste this command and press Enter

Type /mcp in Claude Code

Try it

Install Python (uv)

Click this button to open Cursor

Open the AI chat in Cursor in Agent mode

Try it

Install Python (uv)

Click this button to open VS Code

Open the AI chat in VS Code in Agent mode

Try it

Installed on your computer

At a glance

Which apps can use it

Related guides

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Discussion

User reviews

Compared with others in Design, images & audioi

Common questions

Others in the same category

Figma Context MCP

AutoClip

Next AI Draw.io

README from the maker

AI-Cost-CLI

Preview: Direct vs. Aggregator Comparison

Supported Models

Text Models

Image, Video & Audio Models

Features

Installation

Usage

List All Models

Calculate Cost

With platform fee breakdown (aggregators)

Compare Models

Get Recommendations

Sync Latest Pricing

MCP Server

Registries

Contributing

Community

License