Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for fal.ai - interact with AI models through Claude and other MCP clients. Now with Platform API v1 support!
Most payments and commerce work still happens through a UI a human drives. Fal MCP server moves it into the conversation instead. Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for fal.ai - interact with AI models through Claude and other MCP clients. Now with Platform API v1 support!.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for interacting with fal.ai models and services. This server enables Claude Desktop and other MCP clients to discover, search, and generate content using fal.ai's powerful AI models.
The server publishes 14 tools. What each one is for:
Cursor — The Cursor tool exposed by this servermodels — List available models in the fal.ai model gallery using the Platform API v1search — Search for models using free-text query across name, description, and categoryfind — Find specific model(s) by endpoint ID. Can retrieve single or multiple modelsschema — The schema tool exposed by this servergenerate — The generate tool exposed by this serverresult — The result tool exposed by this serverstatus — Check the status of a generation request without fetching full resultscancel — The cancel tool exposed by this serverupload — The upload tool exposed by this serverpricing — Get pricing information for specific model endpoint(s). Requires authenticationestimate_cost — Estimate costs for model operations. Requires authentication. Useful for budget planning and cost optimizationConfiguration is passed through the environment: FAL_KEY. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
The server ships on npm as fal-ai-mcp-server, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
This sits in the payments and commerce group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Fal's toolset — Cursor, models, search and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by d_posty; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Cursor | The Cursor tool exposed by this server. |
| models | List available models in the fal.ai model gallery using the Platform API v1. |
| search | Search for models using free-text query across name, description, and category. |
| find | Find specific model(s) by endpoint ID. Can retrieve single or multiple models. |
| schema | The schema tool exposed by this server. |
| generate | The generate tool exposed by this server. |
| result | The result tool exposed by this server. |
| status | Check the status of a generation request without fetching full results. |
| cancel | The cancel tool exposed by this server. |
| upload | The upload tool exposed by this server. |
| pricing | Get pricing information for specific model endpoint(s). Requires authentication. |
| estimate_cost | Estimate costs for model operations. Requires authentication. Useful for budget planning and cost optimization. |
| usage | Get usage records for your workspace with detailed billing information. Returns time-series data and/or summary statistics with unit quantities and prices. Requires authentication. |
| analytics | Get analytics data for model endpoints with time-bucketed metrics. Returns request counts, latency statistics (avg, p50, p95, p99), and success/error rates. Requires authentication. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"fal": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "fal-ai-mcp-server"],
"env": {
"FAL_KEY": "your-fal-api-key-here"
}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| FAL_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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