The MCP billing blog
Practical guides on monetizing MCP servers, choosing pricing models, and shipping production-grade paid AI tools.
How to monetize an MCP server: a practical guide
Step-by-step playbook for charging money for MCP tools — pricing models, auth, quotas, billing infrastructure, and the failure modes most authors hit.
Adding Stripe to an MCP server: the full integration guide
Step-by-step walkthrough for wiring Stripe Checkout, webhooks, and entitlements into an MCP server. Includes the pitfalls that will eat your first weekend.
MCP billing patterns: which one fits your tool
Subscription, per-call, hybrid, lifetime — the five pricing patterns we see across paid MCP servers, what each one is good and bad at, and how to pick.
Paywalling Claude-callable tools: what works, what doesn't
How to add a paywall to MCP tools called from Claude, Cursor, Goose, and other LLM clients — the parts of MCP that help, the parts that hurt, and the patterns that convert.
Usage-based vs. subscription billing for AI tools: how to choose
The tradeoffs between usage-based and subscription pricing for MCP servers and AI tools, with a decision framework and three real-world scenarios.