Model Price Radar vs OpenRouter
A side-by-side look at the Model Price Radar and OpenRouter MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Model Price Radar for conversational ai work as a local process; choose OpenRouter for conversational ai as a local process. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
Which MCP server should you choose?
Choose Model Price Radar when
- You need dedicated capabilities in the Conversational AI domain.
- You prefer a local stdio subprocess transport.
- Its auth model fits you: No auth required.
- You want tools like
find_models, estimate_cost, model_price_history.
Choose OpenRouter when
- You need dedicated capabilities in the Conversational AI domain.
- You prefer a local stdio subprocess transport.
- You have the keys it needs:
OPENROUTER_API_KEY. - You want tools like
chat, generate_image, embed.
Feature & specification comparison
Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Category | Conversational AI | Conversational AI |
| Quality signal | 53/100 · Good | 57/100 · Good |
| Install command | Confirmed | Confirmed |
| Transport | Local subprocess (stdio) | Local subprocess (stdio) |
| Auth | No auth required | Not declared |
| Pricing | Free | Not declared |
| Required env vars | None listed | OPENROUTER_API_KEY |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 0 | 1 |
| Directory activity | 1 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 4 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 5 | 5 |
| Full listing | View Model Price Radar | View OpenRouter |
Tools & capabilities
Model Price Radar tools 5
find_modelsSearch the live catalog by name, capabilities (tools, vision, reasoning, structured outputs, audio, free), price ceilings, contextestimate_costCost of a workload (tokens per call × calls) on up to 10 models, cheapest firstmodel_price_historyEvery price change of one model since it appeared, with % changesprice_changesSince a month: biggest drops and increases, newly free models, models added/removedcompare_providersSame model across providers: price, context, max output, quantization, uptime
OpenRouter tools 5
chatSend a chat completion request to any OpenRouter model.generate_imageGenerate an image using an OpenRouter image generation model.embedGenerate embeddings for text input using an OpenRouter embedding model.list_modelsList available OpenRouter models, optionally filtered by capability.find_modelsSearch for models by name or slug.
Ready-to-paste client configs
Paste either block (or both) into your client config, e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json. We only show a config when the install command is confirmed.
Model Price Radar
{
"mcpServers": {
"model-price-radar": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"model-price-radar-mcp"
]
}
}
}
OpenRouter
{
"mcpServers": {
"openrouter-2": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"mcp-openrouter"
],
"env": {
"OPENROUTER_API_KEY": "YOUR_OPENROUTER_API_KEY_HERE"
}
}
}
}
Frequently asked questions
Model Price Radar is categorized under Conversational AI and uses a local stdio subprocess. OpenRouter belongs to Conversational AI and uses a local stdio subprocess. Pick Model Price Radar for conversational ai work and OpenRouter for conversational ai.
Copy the mcpServers block from the config section on this page into your client's config (for example claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json), then fully restart the client.
Model Price Radar is listed as free. Auth: no auth required. OpenRouter has no declared pricing — check the project's own site. If a server needs environment variables such as API keys, define them under the env key in your client's MCP config.
Yes. MCP clients support multiple servers: add model-price-radar and openrouter-2 as separate keys in the same mcpServers object, and your assistant will call tools from either one.
On AllMCPs, Model Price Radar has a quality signal of 53/100 (Good) with 1 views, 0 installs and 0 GitHub stars. OpenRouter has 57/100 (Good) with 4 views, 0 installs and 1 GitHub stars.