What is Monid?
Lets AI agents find, compare and call thousands of paid data and media APIs from a single balance.
Who is Monid best for?
Monid is best for builders of AI agents that must find and pay for outside data and media APIs while they run.
Research and scraping agents
One balance covers web search, scraping of sites such as Reddit, TikTok and Amazon, and people and company data.
Skipping vendor sign-ups
Monid holds the provider keys, so an agent can call a new API without its own account there.
Picking the right tool per call
Discover ranks endpoints for a task and shows each one's price, health and latency before the agent runs it.
Any agent setup
It connects as a skill, a remote MCP server, a CLI or an HTTP API.
How much does Monid cost?
Monid has no subscription: new accounts get $1 of free credit, then each tool call is billed from one balance at the provider's rate, with no markup on most endpoints.
- MIT-licensed connector layer and engine
- Run a connector locally with your own API key
- $1 of free credit on sign-up
- Most endpoints add no markup
- No charge when a call returns no results
There is no subscription or minimum: one balance pays for every provider. Each endpoint has its own price, either a flat fee per call or a fee per result with an optional base fee, and the agent sees it before it runs the call. Discover and inspect are free; only runs are billed. Full pricing on docs.monid.ai. We checked these prices on .
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Is Monid open source?
Yes. Monid's code is public under the MIT licence, so you can read it, change it and run it yourself.
On GitHub
6,182stars
- Last commit
- 10 Nov
- Repository age
- 3 months
- Latest release
- 3 Nov
- Licence
- MIT
- Repository
- monid-ai/monid
How do I connect Monid to my AI agent?
Monid MCP is Monid's official MCP server. Add it to your agent once, then ask it to find and run third-party tools for your agent from one balance.
Monid is a registry of tools from many providers, such as search, scraping and data lookups. Your agent can pick one that fits a task and run it, paying per call from one balance.
$ claude mcp add --transport http monid https://mcp.monid.ai/v1
Claude Code connects to Monid over the web.
Run /mcp and sign in to Monid in the browser.
Then ask your agent
- Runs
- On the web
- Sign-in
- OAuth
- Checked
- Answered 13 Nov
- Guide
- monid.ai
What are the best Monid alternatives?
Monid is an open source alternative to treg and Firecrawl Alexandria.
Questions about Monid
What is Monid?
Lets AI agents find, compare and call thousands of paid data and media APIs from a single balance.
Who is Monid for?
Monid is best for builders of AI agents that must find and pay for outside data and media APIs while they run.
Is Monid free?
Yes. Monid has a free Open source plan: MIT-licensed connector layer and engine.
Is Monid open source?
Partly. Monid's connector layer and engine are on GitHub under the MIT licence, and you can run a connector locally with your own vendor key. The hosted catalog, the shared balance and the key brokering are Monid's pay-per-use service.
Does Monid have an MCP server?
Yes. Monid MCP is Monid's official MCP server, so agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and GitHub Copilot can find and run third-party tools for your agent from one balance. Monid runs it on the web and you sign in with your Monid account.
What are the best Monid alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are treg and Firecrawl Alexandria.
Where can I try Monid?
On its official website, monid.ai.
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