A side-by-side look at the Openrouter MCP Multimodal and Tuney MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Openrouter MCP Multimodal for multimedia process work as a local process; choose Tuney for multimedia process. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
OPENROUTER_API_KEY.chat_completion, start_chat_completion, get_chat_completion_status.Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | T Tuney | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Multimedia Process | Multimedia Process |
| Quality signal | 68/100 · Great | 36/100 · Fair |
| Install command | Confirmed | Not confirmed yet |
| Transport | Local subprocess (stdio) | — |
| Auth | API key required | OAuth 2.0 |
| Pricing | BYOK (pay the provider) | Freemium |
| Required env vars | OPENROUTER_API_KEY | None listed |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 96 | 0 |
| Directory activity | 5 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 19 | Not listed |
| Full listing | View Openrouter MCP Multimodal | View Tuney |
chat_completionText chat, web search, provider routing, caching, reasoningstart_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`) — free Deepgram default, voices, speed, mp3/pcmspeech_to_textDedicated STT (`/api/v1/audio/transcriptions`) — Whisper, GPT-4ogenerate_videoText-to-video (async, resumable)No tool names declared yet. Check the project README from the listing page.
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": {
"stabgan-openrouter-mcp-multimodal": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@stabgan/openrouter-mcp-multimodal"
],
"env": {
"OPENROUTER_API_KEY": "YOUR_OPENROUTER_API_KEY_HERE"
}
}
}
}
No confirmed install command for Tuney yet — follow the setup steps linked from its listing page rather than a guessed package name.