Bring Usage Based Billing
to Claude Desktop
Learn how to connect Orb to Claude Desktop and start using 10 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 Orb MCP Server?
Connect your Orb account to any AI agent to streamline your revenue operations and usage-based billing workflows through natural language.
What you can do
- Usage Ingestion — Send batches of usage events with idempotency keys to track consumption in real-time.
- Subscription Lifecycle — Create, update, and cancel subscriptions, tying customers to specific billing plans seamlessly.
- Customer Management — Provision new customers and list existing ones with full metadata and external ID mapping.
- Invoicing & Revenue — List historical invoices or fetch upcoming draft invoices to predict end-of-month billing.
- Credit Ledgers — Manage prepaid credits by creating ledger entries for increments, decrements, or expirations.
How it works
- Subscribe to this server
- Enter your Orb API Key
- Start managing your billing and usage data from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client
Who is this for?
- Finance & RevOps — Instantly check upcoming revenue and manage customer credits without manual dashboard exports.
- Engineering Teams — Debug usage ingestion and verify event delivery directly from the terminal or IDE.
- Product Managers — Monitor feature adoption and subscription statuses across the customer base.
Built-in capabilities (10)
Cancel a subscription
Requires name and email. Create a new customer in Orb
Create a ledger entry for credits
Create a subscription for a customer
Fetch credit ledger for a customer
Fetch upcoming invoice for a subscription
Events require customer_id, event_name, timestamp, idempotency_key, and properties. Ingest usage events into Orb
List customers in Orb
List invoices
Update an existing subscription
Why Claude Desktop?
Claude Desktop is the definitive way to connect Orb to your AI workflow. Add Vinkius Edge URL to your config, restart the app, and Claude immediately exposes all 10 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
Orb in Claude Desktop
Orb and 4,000+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Orb 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 Orb in Claude Desktop
The Orb 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 10 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
Orb for Claude Desktop
Every tool call from Claude Desktop to the Orb MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
How do I report usage events for a specific customer?
Use the ingest_events tool. You'll need to provide an array of event objects containing the customer_id, event_name, timestamp, and an idempotency_key to ensure usage is only counted once.
Can I see how much a customer will be charged before the billing cycle ends?
Yes! The get_upcoming_invoice tool allows you to fetch the draft invoice for any active subscription_id, giving you real-time visibility into accrued costs.
How do I manage prepaid credits or balances?
You can use create_ledger_entry to add or remove credits from a customer's balance. You can also use fetch_ledger to view the current state of a customer's credit ledger.
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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