Pexafy MCP server

pexafy-mcp

Stock photo search for AI assistants. An MCP server that lets Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client search a library of royalty-free images — by describing a scene in plain language, from an example image, or "more like this" — and render the results as a thumbnail grid inside the conversation.

Remote MCP, OAuth, no API key to paste, 3 tools, images rendered inline.

The product page, with the same steps in twenty-three languages, is at pexafy.com/mcp.

Use it (nothing to install)

A hosted server runs at:

https://mcp.pexafy.com/mcp

It speaks Streamable HTTP and authenticates with OAuth 2.1 — you sign in to Pexafy in a browser window and the connector receives its own credentials. There is no API key to generate, paste into a JSON file, or rotate later.

Claude (web and desktop)

Organization settings → Connectors).

1. Open Settings → Connectors (on Team/Enterprise, an owner adds it once under

1. Click Add custom connector.
2. Paste https://mcp.pexafy.com/mcp and confirm.
3. Sign in to Pexafy in the window that opens. Done — ask Claude for a photo.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http pexafy https://mcp.pexafy.com/mcp

Any other MCP client

Point it at the same URL with the streamable-http transport. Clients that don't implement OAuth can authenticate instead with a Pexafy API key sent as Authorization: Bearer or x-api-key: — get one from the dashboard.

Liveness: GET /health (public, no auth).

Also listed in the official MCP registry as com.pexafy/pexafy-mcp, and on Smithery — where a hosted gateway URL is available for clients that prefer it.

What it costs

The Free plan covers 5,000 searches a month with one connector — enough for regular use, no card required. Higher tiers are on the pricing page. When you hit a limit, the assistant tells you in-chat instead of failing with an opaque error.

Tools

Three read-only tools. No write scope, no account mutation.

search_photos — semantic text search

Describe the scene in a full sentence; Pexafy is semantic, so sentences beat keywords. All parameters are optional, but pass either q or at least one filter.

searchphotosby_image — visual search from an example

Finds photos that look like a reference image, optionally tweaked in words ("like this, but at night").

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.