Keywords AI MCP for AI Agents. Know your LLM costs and performance at a glance.
Keywords AI lets you monitor and manage your spending on large language models. This MCP acts as a central dashboard, tracking API calls, latency, and error rates across multiple LLM providers. You get real-time visibility into usage statistics, model performance trends, and exact cost breakdowns, so billing surprises don't derail your project roadmap.
Give Claude and any AI agent real-world access
Verify if the connection to your LLM provider is active and working.
Get an immediate report showing how much credit you have left for model usage.
Fetch detailed analytics that summarize request volume, total cost, and success rates.
Browse a list of all LLM models you can use with the service.
Filter and retrieve specific API call logs, allowing you to analyze performance for one model at a time.
View details about users associated with the account and monitor team activity.
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What AI agents can do with Keywords AI MCP: 11 Tools for Observability
These tools give your agent granular control over checking API status, retrieving historical logs, managing user accounts, and analyzing usage metrics.
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Add this MCP to Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf and your AI stops guessing. It gets real tools to look things up, take action, and handle the stuff you keep doing by hand.
Start using Keywords AI MCPCheck Keywordsai Status
Verifies the current operational status and connectivity to your LLM provider's API.
Get Analytics
Retrieves a summary report of overall usage, cost, and performance metrics for an...
Get Credits
Provides the current credit balance remaining on your LLM API account.
Get Request
Fetches specific details for a single, identified API request.
Get Usage Stats
Retrieves aggregated usage statistics covering various time periods and models.
Get User
Fetches specific details about a user account linked to the API key.
List Alerts
Retrieves a list of all configured monitoring thresholds and active alerts.
List Models
Displays a complete list of LLM models that are currently available for use with the...
List Requests By Model
Filters and lists all API requests, allowing comparison between different LLM...
List Requests
Retrieves a comprehensive list of historical API request logs for auditing purposes.
List Users
Generates a list of all individual users associated with the account and their roles.
Security and governance baked right in.
Pick your AI client below to get set up. Just create a Vinkius account, subscribe, and you're instantly up and running. We handle the entire backend infrastructure, delivering out-of-the-box support for HTTPS Streamable, SSE, and OAuth2—zero messy routing required.
Choose How to Get Started
Build a custom MCP for your own tools, or connect a ready-made integration from our catalog.
Build Your Own
Turn any API into an MCP. Import a spec, define Agent Skills, or deploy with MCPFusion.
- Import from OpenAPI, Swagger, or YAML specs
- Create Agent Skills with progressive disclosure
- Deploy to edge with MCPFusion framework
- Built in DLP, auth, and compliance on each call
- Real time usage dashboard and cost metering
- Publish to catalog or keep private
Make Your AI Do More
Start with Keywords AI, then connect any of our 5,200+ other servers whenever your AI needs more. One click, no limits.
- Use this MCP plus 5,200+ others, all in one place
- Add new capabilities to your AI anytime you want
- Connections are secured and governed automatically
- Track usage and costs across all your servers
- Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and more
- New servers added to the catalog weekly
VINKIUS INFRASTRUCTURE
Cloud Hosted
Managed infra
V8 Isolated
Sandboxed per request
Zero-Trust Proxy
No stored credentials
DLP Enforced
Policy on each call
GDPR Compliant
EU data residency
Token Compression
~60% cost reduction
API Cost Tracking Doesn't Stop at the Invoice Solved with Vinkius AI Gateway
Today, tracking AI spending means jumping between provider websites. You log into one dashboard to see usage stats, then another to check latency, and a third just to confirm your credit balance. This constant switching makes it impossible to get a true picture of where the money is actually going or which model needs optimization.
With this MCP, you centralize that data. Your agent reads the cost trends and success rates from one place. You stop managing dashboards and start making decisions based on clean, consolidated metrics.
Keywords AI Gives You Full Visibility
The manual steps of checking model performance are replaced by a single query to `list_requests_by_model`. Instead of manually exporting CSVs and cross-referencing them, your agent handles the comparison automatically.
You get immediate, actionable data. It's not just numbers; it's the clarity you need to prove ROI or cut unnecessary spending.
What your AI can actually do with this
Running an application that relies on external AI models means you’re constantly juggling costs and performance metrics. Keywords AI connects to your LLM API account and brings all that data into one place. Instead of logging into five different provider dashboards just to see how much you spent or if a specific model is slow, this MCP aggregates everything.
You can view cost trends over time, check the credit balance before deploying a new feature, or filter massive logs to find every request made by a particular model. If your current workflow runs complex logic through multiple agents or services, Vinkius makes it easy to hook up Keywords AI so you can manage that complexity from one place.
You get full control over performance metrics and usage statistics without ever leaving your agent environment.
019dd111-0170-7172-9d5d-208cedea6396 Here's how it actually works
The bottom line is you get a single point of access to critical LLM operational data without needing multiple dashboards or complex scripts.
First, you connect your LLM API credentials to this MCP via your AI client.
Next, you ask your agent to fetch specific data points—like listing all requests from last week or checking the current credit balance.
Finally, the MCP returns structured information (usage stats, latency metrics, cost totals) that your agent can read and present in natural language.
Who is this actually for?
This MCP is essential for platform engineers, devops specialists, and fintech developers who deploy applications using external AI APIs. If your job involves managing billing budgets or debugging performance bottlenecks across services, you need this.
Uses the MCP to monitor overall usage statistics and latency metrics after a major platform update.
Checks the credit balance and reviews cost trends weekly to ensure department spending stays within budget.
Lists API request logs by model after a failure, helping pinpoint exactly which service call caused an error rate spike.
What Changes When You Connect
Stop guessing about spending. Instead of waiting for an invoice, use the get_credits tool to check your exact remaining balance anytime you need it.
Pinpoint slow services quickly. Use list_requests_by_model and then get_analytics to compare latency metrics across different models and find bottlenecks.
Improve audit trails. Running a complex agent? Use the list_requests tool to get comprehensive logs, making debugging much faster than digging through provider consoles.
Manage teams efficiently. The MCP lets you use the list_users tool to see who is using the API and monitor team activity without needing admin access.
Keep your app running smoothly. By checking the connection status with check_keywordsai_status, your agent verifies connectivity before making expensive calls.
See it in action
The Budget Overrun Nightmare
A development team deployed a new feature, only to find their LLM API costs spiked 30% overnight. They immediately use Keywords AI's monitoring tools to check cost trends and identify which specific model caused the spike, allowing them to throttle it before hitting zero credits.
Debugging Slow Agent Responses
An e-commerce agent is giving users inconsistent response times. The engineer uses Keywords AI's ability to list requests by model and compares the p99 latency of Model A vs. Model B, determining that one specific model needs an update.
Onboarding New Team Members
A manager needs to know who has access to the API key. They use Keywords AI's list_users tool to get a roster and review team activity, ensuring compliance before granting new permissions.
Pre-Deployment Readiness Check
Before launching a major version update, the platform engineer uses keywords AI's analytics dashboard (get_analytics) to check the overall success rate and error rates from historical data, ensuring stability.
The honest tradeoffs
What to watch out for, and the recommended way to handle each one.
Checking billing via email
Waiting for a monthly invoice or logging into three different provider portals just to get an idea of overall usage.
Connect this MCP and use the get_analytics tool. This gives you immediate cost trend data, showing total cost and success rates in one place.
Debugging by guessing
Not knowing if a slow response is due to network latency or the model itself, forcing manual guesswork.
Use list_requests_by_model and then compare the average latency metrics. This lets you isolate whether Model A or Model B is causing the slowdown.
Ignoring user activity
Thinking that because a feature was deployed, everyone can use it without oversight.
Run list_users to see who has access and track usage per team member. This keeps your API key management clean and accountable.
When It Fits, When It Doesn't
Use this MCP if the primary pain point is visibility: you need a single source of truth for LLM costs, performance, or error rates across multiple providers. It's perfect for Platform Engineers who manage infrastructure cost budgets or Dev teams debugging flaky agent logic. Don't use it if your goal is simply to write better prompts; that requires prompt engineering tools. Also, don't rely on this MCP to change the model's output—it only monitors and reports on what has already happened. You use list_models to know what you can use, but you use other tooling for actual implementation logic.
Questions you might have
How does Keywords AI MCP help with cost tracking? +
It provides a real-time view of your credit balance via get_credits and tracks usage statistics over time, allowing you to predict when you might run out of budget.
Can I use Keywords AI MCP to compare models? +
Yes. You can use the list_requests_by_model tool to filter and compare metrics like average latency or total cost for different LLM providers side-by-side.
What information is in the API request logs using Keywords AI? +
The logs provide detailed records of every request, allowing you to see who made the call and exactly what parameters were used at that time for auditing purposes.
Is Keywords AI MCP secure for company data? +
It is designed as a dedicated monitoring gateway. It aggregates usage metrics (costs, latency) without requiring you to expose the core application logic or sensitive user payloads.