apifare — prepaid API balance for agents

One balance for your agent's APIs — 4,900+ ready-to-run tools (no separate provider account), plus search, filings, registries, weather, and BYOK routes for…

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What it can do

  • Search Apis: Search the apipay catalog of ready-to-call APIs (web search, scraping, weather, and more). Returns each API's slug, params, and per-call price in prepaid credits. Every miss is logged so
  • Call Api: Call an API from the apipay catalog by slug (find slugs with search_apis). The cost in prepaid credits is deducted automatically and returned with the result.
  • Get Vault Link: Get a secure one-time link where the user can save their OWN API key for a provider (BYOK). Never ask the user to paste an API key into the chat — always use this link instead. BYOK ca

What data it sees

Do you need an account

No: the server works without sign-in

One balance for your agent's APIs — 4,900+ ready-to-run tools (no separate provider account), plus search, filings, registries, weather, and BYOK routes for keys you already hold (Brave, ScrapingBee, OpenWeather, fal, Exa, Firecrawl, ElevenLabs). Two steps: get a key at apifare.com/start, give it to your agent — or paste read https://apifare.com/llms.txt and get yourself a key to a web-capable agent and it does both. Hard caps, kill switch, signed receipt per call; failed provider calls auto-refund. npm: apifare-mcp (legacy id apipay-mcp still installs).

How to connect

How to connect apifare — prepaid API balance for agents to Claude

The server address to paste into Claude settings:

https://apipay--iamalanlui.run.tools

  1. Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
  2. Go to Settings → Connectors.
  3. Click Add custom connector.
  4. Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
  5. In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.

Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.

Authorization

After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.

How to connect apifare — prepaid API balance for agents to ChatGPT

The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:

https://apipay--iamalanlui.run.tools

  1. Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
  2. Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
  3. Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
  4. Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
  5. Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
  6. In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.

OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.

Authorization

On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.

How to connect apifare — prepaid API balance for agents to Cursor

The server address to paste into Cursor settings:

https://apipay--iamalanlui.run.tools

Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.

Manually:

  1. In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
  2. Paste the JSON copied below into ~/.cursor/mcp.json (per project: .cursor/mcp.json in the repo root).
  3. Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.

Authorization

If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.

Server tool list (4)

Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.

search_apisSearch the apipay catalog of ready-to-call APIs (web search, scraping, weather, and more). Returns each API's slug, params, and per-call price in prepaid credits. Every miss is logged so missing APIs get added.
call_apiCall an API from the apipay catalog by slug (find slugs with search_apis). The cost in prepaid credits is deducted automatically and returned with the result.
get_vault_linkGet a secure one-time link where the user can save their OWN API key for a provider (BYOK). Never ask the user to paste an API key into the chat — always use this link instead. BYOK calls cost a flat 0.1 credits; the user's own provider account pays the provider.
check_balanceCheck the remaining apipay prepaid credit balance (1 credit = $0.01) and get the top-up link.