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OpenAI

Updated June 2026✓ Official

The OpenAI MCP server, built by OpenAI, provides openAI does not publish a dedicated, first-party "MCP server" for its own API — a `openai/mcp-server` repo does not exist. It is officially maintained and best for AI & ML.

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OpenAI does not publish a dedicated, first-party "MCP server" for its own API — a `openai/mcp-server` repo does not exist. Instead, OpenAI's official open-source contribution to the MCP ecosystem is on the client side: openai/openai-agents-python (27,000+ stars), a lightweight framework for building multi-agent workflows with the OpenAI API that ships native support for connecting to MCP servers as a tool source, letting an OpenAI-model-powered agent call out to any MCP server (filesystem, GitHub, databases, etc.) the same way a Claude-based agent would. In other words, OpenAI's MCP investment is "consume MCP tools from an OpenAI agent," not "expose OpenAI itself as an MCP server." Teams that specifically want to call OpenAI's chat, embeddings, or image-generation endpoints as MCP tools from Claude, Cursor, or another MCP client instead rely on small community-built wrapper servers around the OpenAI SDK, authenticated with an `OPENAI_API_KEY`, exposing tools like generate_completion, generate_embedding, or generate_image. Typical use of the Agents SDK side: build a Python agent that uses GPT models for reasoning while pulling live context through an MCP filesystem or web-search server. Update this entry if OpenAI ships a genuine first-party MCP server for its own API in the future.

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What is OpenAI?
OpenAI is an MCP server built by OpenAI. OpenAI does not publish a dedicated, first-party "MCP server" for its own API — a `openai/mcp-server` repo does not exist. Instead, OpenAI's official open-source contribution to the MCP ecosystem is on the client side: openai/openai-agents-python (27,000+ stars), a lightweight framework for building multi-agent workflows with the OpenAI API that ships native support for connecting to MCP servers as a tool source, letting an OpenAI-model-powered agent call out to any MCP server (filesystem, GitHub, databases, etc.) the same way a Claude-based agent would. In other words, OpenAI's MCP investment is "consume MCP tools from an OpenAI agent," not "expose OpenAI itself as an MCP server." Teams that specifically want to call OpenAI's chat, embeddings, or image-generation endpoints as MCP tools from Claude, Cursor, or another MCP client instead rely on small community-built wrapper servers around the OpenAI SDK, authenticated with an `OPENAI_API_KEY`, exposing tools like generate_completion, generate_embedding, or generate_image. Typical use of the Agents SDK side: build a Python agent that uses GPT models for reasoning while pulling live context through an MCP filesystem or web-search server. Update this entry if OpenAI ships a genuine first-party MCP server for its own API in the future.
Who built OpenAI?
OpenAI was built by OpenAI.
Is OpenAI free?
OpenAI is free to install as an MCP server, but the underlying service may require payment. The MCP server is free and open-source. OpenAI API: Pay-per-token pricing. GPT-4o: ~$5/1M input tokens. GPT-3.5 Turbo: ~$0.50/1M input tokens. See official pricing.
How do I install OpenAI?
Install OpenAI from its GitHub repository: https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python
What does OpenAI integrate with?
OpenAI integrates with Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Cline.

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