# apifare for Claude Desktop

One prepaid, capped key for every API your agent needs, under hard caps and a kill switch.

1. Get a token: https://apifare.com/start?origin=page:integrations-claude-desktop (shown once).
2. Add this to claude_desktop_config.json (Settings → Developer → Edit Config): on macOS in ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, on Windows in %APPDATA%\Claude\.

```
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apifare": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "apifare-mcp"],
      "env": { "APIPAY_TOKEN": "<your-token>" }
    }
  }
}
```

   Replace <your-token> with your token. Quit and reopen Claude Desktop: apifare appears among its tools.
3. Try it: "search the web for X", then "fetch a URL", then "what's the weather in London".
4. Caps and the kill switch are checked before dispatch. An empty balance returns HTTP 402 with a top-up link (see /errors.md).

Prices: https://apifare.com/capabilities. Config checked against https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/develop/connect-local-servers on 2026-09-12.