# apifare for CrewAI

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-crewai (shown once).
2. Give your agent apifare through its mcps field with MCPServerHTTP. The token is read from the APIPAY_TOKEN environment variable and sent as an Authorization header. Keep the token out of the URL.

```
pip install crewai
```

```
import os
from crewai import Agent, Crew, Task
from crewai.mcp import MCPServerHTTP

agent = Agent(
    role="Research Analyst",
    goal="Answer questions using live APIs",
    backstory="Analyst with pay-per-call API access via apifare",
    mcps=[
        MCPServerHTTP(
            url="https://apifare.com/mcp",
            headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['APIPAY_TOKEN']}"},
            streamable=True,
        )
    ],
)
task = Task(description="What's the weather in London right now?",
            expected_output="A one-paragraph answer.", agent=agent)
print(Crew(agents=[agent], tasks=[task]).kickoff())
```

   Set APIPAY_TOKEN and your model provider's key, then run it. For a local server instead, MCPServerStdio(command="npx", args=["-y", "apifare-mcp"], env={...}) takes the same token.
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://docs.crewai.com/en/mcp/overview on 2026-09-13.