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Using OpenRouter’s Remote MCP for Model Discovery and Pricing

by Ashik Nesin Ashik Nesin

OpenRouter launches MCP which can provide useful things like providing model catelog like which coding model is under $x price like this

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How to get started?

They provide this via remote MCP. You can add it just by adding the following remote server.

https://mcp.openrouter.ai/mcp

When you trigger it, an OpenRouter consent page opens in your browser where you approve a dedicated key just for this connection, separate from your other keys. The key expires after 7 days and starts with a $10 spend cap (editable on the approval screen)

And it has the following tools right now 2026-06-26-at-01.00.13.png

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