Is io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli safe to use?

io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments.

How do I install io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli?

io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.

What can io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli do?

io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli provides 5 tools: list, calc, compare, recommend, sync. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.

What AI clients work with io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli?

io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses http transport.

Is io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli actively maintained?

io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli is actively maintained — last commit was 17 days ago. It has 1 GitHub stars.

io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli

aicost-cli

Terminal-based AI API cost calculator, recommender, and mcp server.

1 5 tools GitHub PyPI

No known CVEs

No license

Actively maintained

Last commit 17d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: http

5 tools · ~471 tok

Grade A · 0.2% of 200K ctx

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktophttp · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "io-github-ufhouck-aicost-cli": {
      "args": [
        "aicost-cli"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

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What io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli does

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

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Is io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli safe to use?: io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments.
How do I install io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli?: io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli do?: io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli provides 5 tools: list, calc, compare, recommend, sync. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli?: io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses http transport.
Is io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli actively maintained?: io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli is actively maintained — last commit was 17 days ago. It has 1 GitHub stars.

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktophttp · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "io-github-ufhouck-aicost-cli": {
      "args": [
        "aicost-cli"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

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What io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli does

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

Test This Server

Run this in your terminal to verify the server starts. Then let us know if it worked — your result helps other developers.

uvx 'aicost-cli' 2>&1 | head -1 && echo "✓ Server started successfully"

After testing, let us know if it worked:

README

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:

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Scored, not listed

Why this score

Five weighted categories — click any category to see the underlying evidence.

Score breakdown

85/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−15

Security

Maintenance

Efficiency

Documentation

Compatibility

Categoriesclick a row to see evidence

Security

OSV.dev

No known CVEs.

Checked aicost-cli against OSV.dev.

Inventory

Tools (5)

Click any tool to inspect its schema.

~471 tokens total

Community

Reviews

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Have you used this server?

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli safe to use?: io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments.
How do I install io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli?: io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli do?: io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli provides 5 tools: list, calc, compare, recommend, sync. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli?: io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses http transport.
Is io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli actively maintained?: io.github.ufhouck/aicost-cli is actively maintained — last commit was 17 days ago. It has 1 GitHub stars.