io.github.david-eve-za/nvidia-nim-mcp MCP Server

Name: io.github.david-eve-za/nvidia-nim-mcp MCP Server
Author: io.github.david-eve-za

io.github.david-eve-za/nvidia-nim-mcp

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What is the io.github.david-eve-za/nvidia-nim-mcp MCP server?

MCP server for NVIDIA NIM - 50+ LLMs, multimodal, image gen, embeddings, reranking

How to install io.github.david-eve-za/nvidia-nim-mcp

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

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

Environment / auth

NVIDIA_API_KEY
required
secret
Your NVIDIA API key for accessing NIM models. Get one at https://build.nvidia.com
NVIDIA_NIM_BASE_URL
Base URL for self-hosted NIM endpoints
NVIDIA_AI_FOUNDATION_URL
Base URL for NVIDIA AI Foundation Models (free tier available)
DEFAULT_MODEL
Default model to use for chat/text generation
ENABLE_IMAGE_GENERATION
Enable image generation tools
ENABLE_VISION
Enable vision/image analysis tools
ENABLE_MULTIMODAL
Enable multimodal tools

Claude Desktop

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nvidia-nim-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "nvidia-nim-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NVIDIA_API_KEY": "<YOUR_NVIDIA_API_KEY>",
        "NVIDIA_NIM_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_NVIDIA_NIM_BASE_URL>",
        "NVIDIA_AI_FOUNDATION_URL": "<YOUR_NVIDIA_AI_FOUNDATION_URL>",
        "DEFAULT_MODEL": "<YOUR_DEFAULT_MODEL>",
        "ENABLE_IMAGE_GENERATION": "<YOUR_ENABLE_IMAGE_GENERATION>",
        "ENABLE_VISION": "<YOUR_ENABLE_VISION>",
        "ENABLE_MULTIMODAL": "<YOUR_ENABLE_MULTIMODAL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nvidia-nim-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "nvidia-nim-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NVIDIA_API_KEY": "<YOUR_NVIDIA_API_KEY>",
        "NVIDIA_NIM_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_NVIDIA_NIM_BASE_URL>",
        "NVIDIA_AI_FOUNDATION_URL": "<YOUR_NVIDIA_AI_FOUNDATION_URL>",
        "DEFAULT_MODEL": "<YOUR_DEFAULT_MODEL>",
        "ENABLE_IMAGE_GENERATION": "<YOUR_ENABLE_IMAGE_GENERATION>",
        "ENABLE_VISION": "<YOUR_ENABLE_VISION>",
        "ENABLE_MULTIMODAL": "<YOUR_ENABLE_MULTIMODAL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nvidia-nim-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "nvidia-nim-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NVIDIA_API_KEY": "<YOUR_NVIDIA_API_KEY>",
        "NVIDIA_NIM_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_NVIDIA_NIM_BASE_URL>",
        "NVIDIA_AI_FOUNDATION_URL": "<YOUR_NVIDIA_AI_FOUNDATION_URL>",
        "DEFAULT_MODEL": "<YOUR_DEFAULT_MODEL>",
        "ENABLE_IMAGE_GENERATION": "<YOUR_ENABLE_IMAGE_GENERATION>",
        "ENABLE_VISION": "<YOUR_ENABLE_VISION>",
        "ENABLE_MULTIMODAL": "<YOUR_ENABLE_MULTIMODAL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "nvidia-nim-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "nvidia-nim-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NVIDIA_API_KEY": "<YOUR_NVIDIA_API_KEY>",
        "NVIDIA_NIM_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_NVIDIA_NIM_BASE_URL>",
        "NVIDIA_AI_FOUNDATION_URL": "<YOUR_NVIDIA_AI_FOUNDATION_URL>",
        "DEFAULT_MODEL": "<YOUR_DEFAULT_MODEL>",
        "ENABLE_IMAGE_GENERATION": "<YOUR_ENABLE_IMAGE_GENERATION>",
        "ENABLE_VISION": "<YOUR_ENABLE_VISION>",
        "ENABLE_MULTIMODAL": "<YOUR_ENABLE_MULTIMODAL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add nvidia-nim-mcp --env NVIDIA_API_KEY=<YOUR_NVIDIA_API_KEY> --env NVIDIA_NIM_BASE_URL=<YOUR_NVIDIA_NIM_BASE_URL> --env NVIDIA_AI_FOUNDATION_URL=<YOUR_NVIDIA_AI_FOUNDATION_URL> --env DEFAULT_MODEL=<YOUR_DEFAULT_MODEL> --env ENABLE_IMAGE_GENERATION=<YOUR_ENABLE_IMAGE_GENERATION> --env ENABLE_VISION=<YOUR_ENABLE_VISION> --env ENABLE_MULTIMODAL=<YOUR_ENABLE_MULTIMODAL> -- npx -y nvidia-nim-mcp