Developer Subscription

Overview

Developer subscriptions are completely optional. You can subscribe to your own MCP server at a discounted rate - 20% of what regular subscribers pay (an 80% discount).

This is useful for:

• Testing - Experience your server as subscribers do
• Dogfooding - Use your own server in production
• Personal use - Access your server for your own projects

Pricing

As a developer, you pay only the 20% platform fee:

Regular subscriber price:  $1.00/1K requests
Developer subscription:    $0.20/1K requests (80% discount)

For regular subscribers, 80% goes to you and 20% goes to the platform. For your own subscription, since you can't pay yourself, you only pay the platform fee.

How to Subscribe

Developer subscriptions are available from your server detail page:

1. Go to app.mctx.ai/dev/servers
2. Click on your server
3. Find the Subscribe to Your Server card
4. Review the pricing comparison
5. Click Subscribe Now
6. Complete the checkout

That's it - you now have access to your server at the developer rate.

When You Might Want This

Testing and Quality Assurance

Subscribe to verify your server works correctly:

• Test authentication flow
• Verify MCP protocol implementation
• Check tool execution and responses
• Monitor real-world performance

Dogfooding

Use your own server in production:

• Experience exactly what subscribers experience
• Find issues before subscribers do
• Build confidence in your server's reliability

Personal Use

Access your server for your own work:

• Use your tools in your development workflow
• Integrate with your own AI applications
• Build on your own infrastructure

When You Don't Need This

You don't need a developer subscription if you:

• Only want to deploy and manage your server
• Test using other methods (local development, staging environments)
• Don't personally use MCP servers

Deployment does not require a developer subscription. Once you set up payouts, your server can deploy and accept subscribers without you subscribing.

Pricing Comparison

The server detail page shows:

Example for a $5.00/1K server:

• Regular subscribers pay: $5.00/1K
• You pay: $1.00/1K

Managing Your Developer Subscription

View and manage your developer subscription from:

• app.mctx.ai/subscriptions - All your subscriptions
• Your server detail page - Shows subscription status

Canceling

You can cancel your developer subscription anytime:

1. Go to app.mctx.ai/subscriptions
2. Find your developer subscription
3. Click Cancel Subscription

Note: Canceling your developer subscription does not affect your server or other subscribers. Your server remains active and other subscribers keep access.

Billing

Developer subscriptions use the same metered billing as regular subscriptions:

1. Subscribe - Enter payment details via Stripe Checkout
2. Use - Make requests to your MCP server throughout the month
3. Bill - At the end of each billing cycle, Stripe calculates your usage
4. Pay - Your card is charged for the total usage at the developer rate

View your usage anytime in the dashboard.

Locked-In Pricing

Like all subscriptions, your developer subscription locks in the current price for as long as you maintain that subscription:

• Subscribe at $0.20/1K (when subscriber price is $1.00/1K)
• Your rate stays $0.20/1K while subscribed
• Even if you raise the subscriber price to $5.00/1K later
• Your developer subscription remains $0.20/1K while you stay subscribed

If you cancel and resubscribe later, you'll pay the current developer rate (20% of the current subscriber price) - not your original locked-in rate. This protects you from your own price increases while subscribed.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this required?

No, developer subscriptions are completely optional. You can deploy and manage your server without subscribing.

What if I raise my server price?

Your developer subscription locks in the rate at the time you subscribed. If you raise the subscriber price later, your rate doesn't change.

Can I have both a developer subscription and regular subscription?

No, you can only have one subscription per server. Since you're the developer, you subscribe at the developer rate.

What happens if I cancel?

Your server remains active and other subscribers keep access. Only your personal access via subscription is removed.

Can I resubscribe later?

Yes, you can resubscribe anytime from your server detail page. The current developer rate (20% of subscriber price) will be locked in.

Next Steps

• How Pricing Works - Complete pricing overview
• Getting Paid - Set up payouts

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