Bring Usage Based Billing
to Claude Desktop
Learn how to connect Metronome to Claude Desktop and start using 31 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
GDPR Free for SubscribersCompatible with every major AI agent and IDE
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What is the Metronome MCP Server?
Connect your Metronome account to any AI agent to streamline your usage-based billing and revenue operations through natural conversation.
What you can do
- Usage Ingestion & Querying — Send usage events and retrieve aggregated usage data across customers and metrics using
ingest_eventsandget_usage. - Customer Management — Create, list, and archive customers, or manage their billing configurations via
list_customersandcreate_customer. - Billing & Invoicing — Fetch, void, or regenerate invoices and track net balances with
list_invoicesandget_net_balance. - Contract Lifecycle — Create and edit contracts, manage rate cards, and track commits using
create_contractandlist_contracts. - Alerts & Monitoring — Set up notifications, alerts, and access audit logs for billing transparency.
How it works
- Subscribe to this server
- Enter your Metronome API Token
- Start managing your billing operations from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client
Who is this for?
- Finance Teams — reconcile usage data and manage invoices without manual exports.
- Product Managers — analyze feature usage and billing impact in real-time.
- Engineering Teams — verify event ingestion and monitor billing services directly from the terminal.
Built-in capabilities (31)
Create a custom field key
Add a rate to a rate card
Voids invoices and archives contracts. Archive a customer
Create a threshold notification alert
Create a billable metric
Create a commit
Create a contract
Create a new customer
Create an offset lifecycle event notification
Products can be USAGE, FIXED, COMPOSITE, or SUBSCRIPTION. Create a product
Defines base prices for products. Create a rate card
). Edit a contract
Get audit logs
Get a specific customer
Get an invoice
Get net balance
Get services
Get batched usage data
Get usage data with paginated groupings
Supports up to 100,000 events per second. Ingest usage events into Metronome
List balances
List all billable metrics
List customer contracts
List pricing units
Supports filtering. List all customers
List invoices
List products
Regenerate an invoice
Designed for sampling-based testing. Search events by transaction ID
Set custom field values
Void an invoice
Why Claude Desktop?
Claude Desktop is the definitive way to connect Metronome to your AI workflow. Add Vinkius Edge URL to your config, restart the app, and Claude immediately exposes all 31 tools in the chat interface. ask a question, Claude calls the right tool, and you see the answer. Zero code, zero context switching.
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Claude Desktop is the reference MCP client. it was designed alongside the protocol itself, ensuring the most complete and stable MCP implementation available
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Zero-code configuration: add a server URL to a JSON file and Claude instantly discovers and exposes all available tools in the chat interface
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Claude's extended thinking capability lets it reason through multi-step tool usage, chaining multiple API calls to answer complex questions
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Enterprise-grade security with local config storage. your tokens never leave your machine, and connections go directly to Vinkius Edge network
Metronome in Claude Desktop
Metronome and 4,000+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Metronome to Claude Desktop through Vinkius don't need to source, host, or maintain individual MCP servers. Every tool call runs inside a hardened runtime with credential isolation, DLP, and a signed audit chain.
Raw MCP | Vinkius | |
|---|---|---|
| Server catalog | Find and host yourself | 4,000+ managed |
| Infrastructure | Self-hosted | Sandboxed V8 isolates |
| Credential handling | Plaintext in config | Vault + runtime injection |
| Data loss prevention | None | Configurable DLP policies |
| Kill switch | None | Global instant shutdown |
| Financial circuit breakers | None | Per-server limits + alerts |
| Audit trail | None | Ed25519 signed logs |
| SIEM log streaming | None | Splunk, Datadog, Webhook |
| Honeytokens | None | Canary alerts on leak |
| Custom domains | Not applicable | DNS challenge verified |
| GDPR compliance | Manual effort | Automated purge + export |
Why teams choose Vinkius for Metronome in Claude Desktop
The Metronome MCP Server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS — a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts. All 31 tools execute in hardened sandboxes optimized for native MCP execution.
Your AI agents in Claude Desktop only access the data you authorize, with DLP that blocks sensitive information from ever reaching the model, kill switch for instant shutdown, and up to 60% token savings. Enterprise-grade infrastructure, zero maintenance.
* Every MCP server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS - a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts optimized for native MCP execution. See our infrastructure
How Vinkius secures
Metronome for Claude Desktop
Every tool call from Claude Desktop to the Metronome MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
Can I check the current net balance for a specific customer?
Yes! Use the get_net_balance tool with the specific customer_id to retrieve the real-time balance information.
How do I see usage broken down by specific dimensions?
You can use the get_usage_groups tool. It allows you to retrieve granular usage data for a specific customer and metric, broken down by your custom grouping dimensions.
Is it possible to list all invoices for a client to check their payment history?
Absolutely. Use the list_invoices tool and provide the customer_id to see a paginated list of all invoices associated with that account.
How does Claude Desktop discover MCP tools?
When Claude Desktop starts, it reads the claude_desktop_config.json file and connects to each configured MCP server. It calls the tools/list endpoint to fetch the schema for every available tool, then surfaces them as clickable options in the chat interface via the 🔌 icon.
What happens if the MCP server is temporarily unavailable?
Claude Desktop handles disconnections gracefully. if the server is unreachable at startup, the tools simply won't appear. Once the server becomes available again, restarting Claude Desktop will re-establish the connection. There is no timeout penalty or error loop.
Can I connect multiple MCP servers simultaneously?
Yes. You can add as many servers as you need in the mcpServers section of the config file. Each server appears as a separate tool provider, and Claude can use tools from multiple servers in a single conversation turn.
Is there a limit on the number of tools per server?
Claude Desktop can handle hundreds of tools per server. However, for optimal LLM performance, Vinkius servers are designed to expose focused, well-documented tool sets rather than overwhelming the model with too many options.
Does Claude Desktop support Streamable HTTP transport?
Yes. Claude Desktop supports both SSE (Server-Sent Events) and the newer Streamable HTTP transport that Vinkius uses. Simply provide the server URL. Claude auto-negotiates the transport protocol.
Server not appearing after restart
Ensure the JSON is valid (no trailing commas). Check the file path: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\\Claude\\ (Windows).
Authentication error
Verify your Vinkius token is correct. Go to cloud.vinkius.com to regenerate it if needed.
Tools not showing in chat
Click the 🔌 icon at the bottom of the chat input. If it shows 0 tools, the server may still be connecting. wait a few seconds.
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