Car Image API

Install

One command

The Car Image plugin gives your coding agent studio-quality vehicle renders — five skills and sixteen tools, wired to the hosted MCP server. Nothing to run, nothing to keep up to date.

  1. Install the plugin

    Pick your agent. Two lines, once.

  2. Set your key

    Every client reads the same environment variable.

  3. Ask for a car

    Start a new session and describe the vehicle you want.

No key yet?

npx @meterapp/car-image login opens your browser and prints the key once. Every account starts with 100 free credits — no card, no subscription.

Get a keySee pricing
Install the plugin
/plugin marketplace add MeterApp/car-image-plugins
/plugin install car-image@meterapp

Type these in a Claude Code session.

Set your API key
export CAR_IMAGE_API_KEY="cimg_your_key_here"
Then ask for a car
Add a red 2024 Porsche 911 side view to the hero section.

What the plugin adds

Five skills that teach your agent when and how to use the API, plus the hosted MCP server.

car-image

Fetch a render: costs, auth, which call to make, error handling

car-image-urls

Signed URLs for pages, emails and documents — no key in the browser

vehicle-catalog

Free text to an exact make, model and year

car-image-sdk

The TypeScript SDK, the CLI, and plain REST

car-image-mcp

Connecting over MCP, and fixing it when tools do not appear

16 MCP tools

2 cost credits

get_car_image and create_car_image_urls cost 1 credit. Search, resolve, options, account, feedback and describe are free. See the tools.

Claude or ChatGPT chat: no key, no install

Chat clients have nowhere to put an API key, so they connect over OAuth instead. Paste one URL, sign in, approve — images are billed to your credits and you can disconnect any time.

Connector URL
https://carimage.dev/api/mcp

In Claude, that is Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector. The client registers itself and opens carimage.dev, where the consent screen names exactly what it will be able to do. Details in the MCP docs.

Just the MCP server

If you only want the sixteen tools and none of the skills, skip the plugin — one command connects the hosted server directly.

Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http car-image https://carimage.dev/api/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer $CAR_IMAGE_API_KEY"

For Cursor, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT or a generic host, npx @meterapp/car-image agent-config --host cursor prints the configuration. The full reference is in the MCP docs; the plugin source is on GitHub.