ATOM Pricing Intelligence
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The Global Price Benchmark for AI Inference. 1,600+ SKUs, 40+ vendors, 14 price indexes.
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The Global Price Benchmark for AI Inference, delivered as a native tool for AI agents.
Independent pricing intelligence for developers, analysts, and infrastructure buyers. Transparent methodology, deterministic indexing, weekly market intelligence across the global AI inference market.
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What This Is
ATOM MCP Server lets any MCP-compatible AI agent (Claude, GPT, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code Copilot) query live AI inference pricing data programmatically. Built on financial index methodology comparable to S&P Dow Jones, MSCI, and Bloomberg, the ATOM Inference Price Index (AIPI) is the first independent benchmark for the AI inference market.
Ask your AI assistant a question like "What's the cheapest way to run GPT-4o?" and it calls ATOM's tools behind the scenes, returning a data-backed answer pulled from live coverage across the global vendor landscape.
AIPI Indexes
The AIPI index family spans four categories, all calculated weekly using chained matched-model methodology to eliminate composition bias:
| Category | Examples | What It Answers |
|---|---|---|
| Modality | Text, Multimodal, Image, Audio, Video, Voice, Embeddings | What does this type of inference cost? |
| Channel | Model Developers, Cloud Marketplaces, Inference Platforms, Neoclouds | Where should you buy: direct, marketplace, platform, or neocloud? |
| Tier | Frontier, Budget, Mid-Tier, Reasoning | What is the premium for capability? |
| Special | Open-Source | How much cheaper is open-weight inference? |
All indexes are global (GLB) and reported across three pricing directions: input, cached input, output.
Tools
Two complementary intelligence layers. Pricing tells you what inference costs; Model Intelligence tells you what you are paying for.
| Tool | Tier | Description |
|---|---|---|
list_vendors |
Free | All tracked vendors with country, region, channel type, and pricing page URLs |
get_kpis |
Free | 9 pricing KPIs: output premium, caching discount, open-source discount, context window cost, model size spread, reasoning premium, platform discount, neocloud discount, caching availability |
get_model_intelligence |
Free | 6 capability KPIs from model metadata: reasoning tier share, long-context saturation, frontier context ceiling, output ceiling spread, training cutoff lag, vendor modality breadth |
get_index_benchmarks |
Free | AIPI price benchmarks across all indexes |
get_market_stats |
Tiered | Aggregate market intelligence: medians, quartiles, distributions, modality breakdown |
search_models |
Tiered | Multi-filter search: modality, vendor, creator, open-source, price range, context window, parameters |
get_model_detail |
Tiered | Full specs and pricing across all vendors for a single model |
compare_prices |
Tiered | Cross-vendor price comparison for a model or model family |
get_vendor_catalog |
Tiered | Complete catalog for a specific vendor |
Pricing Tiers
| ATOM MCP (Free) | ATOM MCP Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendors, KPIs, Model Intelligence, AIPI indexes | Full data | Full data |
| Market stats | Aggregates only | Vendor-level breakdown |
| Model search and comparison | Counts and price ranges | Full granular SKU data |
| Model detail | Specs only | Per-vendor pricing |
| Vendor catalog | Summary only | Full SKU listing |
Free tier (no API key): enough to understand the market through counts, ranges, distributions, benchmarks, and capability metrics.
ATOM MCP Pro: full granular data across every vendor, model, price, and spec. Subscribe at a7om.com/mcp.
Quick Start
Option 1: Remote URL for Claude.ai and Claude Desktop (recommended)
No install required. Connect directly to ATOM's hosted server.
Claude.ai (web): Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector
Name: ATOM Pricing Intelligence
URL: https://atom-mcp-server-production.up.railway.app/mcp
Claude Desktop: Settings → Developer → Edit Config
{
"mcpServers": {
"atom-pricing": {
"url": "https://atom-mcp-server-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
}
}
}
Note: Remote URL support requires a recent Claude Desktop version. If it does not work, use the npx method below.
Claude Desktop (via npx proxy):
{
"mcpServers": {
"atom-pricing": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["mcp-remote", "https://atom-mcp-server-production.up.railway.app/mcp"]
}
}
}
Option 2: Local (stdio) for Cursor, Windsurf, and similar clients
git clone https://github.com/A7OM-AI/atom-mcp-server.git
cd atom-mcp-server
npm install && npm run build
Add to your MCP client config:
{
"mcpServers": {
"atom-pricing": {
"command": "node",
"args": ["/path/to/atom-mcp-server/dist/index.js"],
"env": {
"SUPABASE_URL": "https://jonncmzxvxzwyaznokba.supabase.co",
"SUPABASE_ANON_KEY": "your-anon-key"
}
}
}
}
Option 3: Deploy your own (Railway)
Set environment variables in Railway dashboard:
SUPABASE_URLSUPABASE_ANON_KEYATOM_API_KEYS(comma-separated, for paid tier validation)TRANSPORT=http
Example Queries
Once connected, ask your AI assistant in natural language:
- "What's the cheapest way to run GPT-4o?"
- "Compare Claude Sonnet 4.5 pricing across all vendors"
- "Find open-source text models under $0.50 per million tokens"
- "Show me Google's full model catalog"
- "What are the AIPI benchmark prices for text inference?"
- "How do neocloud prices compare to cloud marketplaces?"
- "How much cheaper is open-source inference?"
- "How stale is the median AI model's training data?"
- "What share of models ship with long context, and how rare are reasoning models?"
- "Give me a market overview of AI inference pricing"
Environment Variables
| Variable | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
SUPABASE_URL |
Yes | Supabase project URL |
SUPABASE_ANON_KEY |
Yes | Supabase anonymous/public key |
ATOM_API_KEYS |
No | Comma-separated valid API keys for paid tier |
TRANSPORT |
No | stdio (default) or http |
PORT |
No | HTTP port (default 3000) |
Tech Stack
- TypeScript / Node.js
- MCP SDK (
@modelcontextprotocol/sdk) - Supabase (PostgreSQL) via REST API
- Express (HTTP transport)
- Zod (schema validation)
About ATOM
The Global Price Benchmark for AI Inference. Independent pricing intelligence for developers, analysts, and infrastructure buyers. Transparent methodology, deterministic indexing, weekly market intelligence across the global AI inference market.
ATOM was founded in 2025 by Stamos Kanellakis. The platform is built on financial index methodology comparable to S&P Dow Jones, MSCI, and Bloomberg, and applies that discipline to a market that previously had no pricing benchmark of its own.
Products: ATOM MCP · ATOM Terminal · ATOM Feed
License
MIT
ATOM · The Global Price Benchmark for AI Inference.
Install ATOM Pricing Intelligence in Claude Desktop, Claude Code & Cursor
unyly install atom-pricing-intelligenceInstalls into Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor & VS Code — handles npx, uvx and build-from-source repos for you.
First time? Get the CLI: curl -fsSL https://unyly.org/install | sh
Or configure manually
Run in your terminal:
claude mcp add atom-pricing-intelligence -- npx -y atom-mcp-serverFAQ
Is ATOM Pricing Intelligence MCP free?
Yes, ATOM Pricing Intelligence MCP is free — one-click install via Unyly at no cost.
Does ATOM Pricing Intelligence need an API key?
No, ATOM Pricing Intelligence runs without API keys or environment variables.
Is ATOM Pricing Intelligence hosted or self-hosted?
A hosted option is available: Unyly runs the server in the cloud, no local setup required.
How do I install ATOM Pricing Intelligence in Claude Desktop, Claude Code or Cursor?
Open ATOM Pricing Intelligence on unyly.org, pick your client tab (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor) and press Install — the config is generated automatically, no JSON editing.
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