A side-by-side look at the Musevate MCP and Openrouter MCP Multimodal MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Musevate MCP for multimedia process work as a local process; choose Openrouter MCP Multimodal for multimedia process as a local process. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
list_models, quote_video, generate_video.OPENROUTER_API_KEY.chat_completion, start_chat_completion, get_chat_completion_status.Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Category | Multimedia Process | Multimedia Process |
| Quality signal | 51/100 · Good | 68/100 · Great |
| Install command | Confirmed | Confirmed |
| Transport | Local subprocess (stdio) | Local subprocess (stdio) |
| Auth | Not declared | API key required |
| Pricing | Not declared | BYOK (pay the provider) |
| Required env vars | None listed | OPENROUTER_API_KEY |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 0 | 99 |
| Directory activity | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 6 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 5 | 21 |
| Full listing | View Musevate MCP | View Openrouter MCP Multimodal |
list_modelsEvery model available, with maximum length, the sizes it offers, whether it can generate sound, and what it costs in creditsquote_videoPrices a generation without running it, and names the model that would serve itgenerate_videoReturns immediately with an id; rendering takes about a minutecheck_videoStatus, and once finished a link valid for one hourcheck_balanceCredits remainingchat_completionText chat, web search, provider routing, caching, reasoning, structured outputstart_chat_completionAsync background job for long-running reasoning modelsget_chat_completion_statusPoll / retrieve async completion resultsanalyze_imageVision — local path, URL, or data URL + `questionanalyze_audioTranscribe / analyze audio filesanalyze_videoDescribe / Q&A over video filesgenerate_imageText-to-image via chat completions with reference imagesgenerate_image_dedicatedText-to-image via dedicated `/api/v1/images` (resolution, quality, format)generate_audioText-to-speech / music via chat completionstext_to_speechDedicated TTS (`/api/v1/audio/speech`) — Deepgram, ElevenLabs, OpenAI; voices, speed, mp3/pcmspeech_to_textDedicated STT (`/api/v1/audio/transcriptions`) — Whisper, GPT-4o Transcribe, Voxtral, ElevenLabs Scribegenerate_videoText-to-video (async, resumable)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.
{
"mcpServers": {
"musevate-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"github:musevate/MCP"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"stabgan-openrouter-mcp-multimodal": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@stabgan/openrouter-mcp-multimodal"
],
"env": {
"OPENROUTER_API_KEY": "YOUR_OPENROUTER_API_KEY_HERE"
}
}
}
}