OrcaRouter MCP Server

Name: OrcaRouter MCP Server
Author: io.github.Continuum-AI-Corp

io.github.Continuum-AI-Corp/orcarouter-mcp

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What is the OrcaRouter MCP server?

Browse 160+ LLM models and live pricing — no API key needed for catalog. Add key to route chat.

How to install OrcaRouter

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

ORCAROUTER_API_KEY
secret
OrcaRouter API key. Required only for orcarouter_chat. Catalog tools (orcarouter_models_list, orcarouter_model_card, orcarouter_providers_list) work without it.
ORCAROUTER_BASE_URL
Override the gateway base URL. Defaults to https://api.orcarouter.ai.
ORCAROUTER_REQUEST_TIMEOUT
Per-request timeout in seconds. Defaults to 300 (5 minutes) to accommodate long reasoning-model completions.

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "orcarouter-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@orcarouter/mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ORCAROUTER_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ORCAROUTER_API_KEY>",
        "ORCAROUTER_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_ORCAROUTER_BASE_URL>",
        "ORCAROUTER_REQUEST_TIMEOUT": "<YOUR_ORCAROUTER_REQUEST_TIMEOUT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "orcarouter-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@orcarouter/mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ORCAROUTER_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ORCAROUTER_API_KEY>",
        "ORCAROUTER_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_ORCAROUTER_BASE_URL>",
        "ORCAROUTER_REQUEST_TIMEOUT": "<YOUR_ORCAROUTER_REQUEST_TIMEOUT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "orcarouter-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@orcarouter/mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ORCAROUTER_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ORCAROUTER_API_KEY>",
        "ORCAROUTER_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_ORCAROUTER_BASE_URL>",
        "ORCAROUTER_REQUEST_TIMEOUT": "<YOUR_ORCAROUTER_REQUEST_TIMEOUT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "orcarouter-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@orcarouter/mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ORCAROUTER_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ORCAROUTER_API_KEY>",
        "ORCAROUTER_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_ORCAROUTER_BASE_URL>",
        "ORCAROUTER_REQUEST_TIMEOUT": "<YOUR_ORCAROUTER_REQUEST_TIMEOUT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add orcarouter-mcp --env ORCAROUTER_API_KEY=<YOUR_ORCAROUTER_API_KEY> --env ORCAROUTER_BASE_URL=<YOUR_ORCAROUTER_BASE_URL> --env ORCAROUTER_REQUEST_TIMEOUT=<YOUR_ORCAROUTER_REQUEST_TIMEOUT> -- npx -y @orcarouter/mcp