Can Claude make videos?

Yes, the same way. Claude can start text-to-video and image-to-video jobs on 67 video models and hand you the link. Video takes longer than pictures; Claude waits up to five minutes at a time and can check again later.

Does it work on claude.ai in the browser?

Not yet. The web app connects to hosted connector URLs, and the SpicyAPI MCP server runs on your computer. Use Claude Code or Claude Desktop for now.

Does my Claude subscription pay for the pictures?

No. Pictures and clips are billed to your SpicyAPI balance in US dollars, one call at a time. The MCP server itself is free.

How much does a picture cost?

On today's cheapest models, pictures start at $0.0018 and video at $0.011 per second. Claude fetches the exact quote before every paid job, and nothing is charged until you approve it.

Will Claude make NSFW images this way?

Often it won't. Claude follows Anthropic's usage policies and may decline the strongest requests, whatever model sits behind it. If you want a prompt sent exactly as you wrote it, use Studio or the API directly.

The key sits in a config file on your computer and goes only to the SpicyAPI server running there; it isn't part of the conversation. Give Claude its own key with a daily cap, and never commit that config file to a repository.

Claude × SpicyAPI · MCP server

Generate images and video from Claude

Q: Can Claude generate images?

Not by itself. Claude can draw diagrams and charts as code, but it doesn't make photos or illustrations. Connected to SpicyAPI through MCP, it can: Claude writes the request, you approve the price, and the picture comes back as a link in the chat.

Claude can't draw pictures on its own. Connect it to the SpicyAPI MCP server and it can: ask in plain words, and Claude picks one of 145 image and video models, shows you the exact price and starts the job only after you say yes.

Get your API key Set it up in 3 steps

Rather not install anything? Create in Studio instead

A hooded figure with a lantern on a stone bridge in a misty cavern, a huge sleeping dragon curled around the pillars behind — An illustration of how a session goes. The picture is a real Z-Image example from its model page, and nothing is charged until you approve.

Image models: 78
Video models: 67
Pictures from: $0.0018per image
Video from: $0.011per second

No subscription · Pay per call in US dollars

Can Claude generate images?

Not by itself, but it can through MCP. Here is the short version.

On its own: no
Claude writes text and code. It can sketch diagrams and charts as code, but it doesn't produce photos, illustrations or video.
With MCP: yes
MCP (Model Context Protocol) lets Claude use outside tools. Add the SpicyAPI server and Claude can find a model, upload your file, get a quote and start the job for you.
You stay in charge of spending
Every paid step stops and asks you first, with the price in US dollars. Claude can't approve it for you.

Which Claude apps work

The SpicyAPI MCP server runs on your own computer. That decides where it works today.

Claude Code
Works end to end
Runs in your terminal or code editor. It shows SpicyAPI's price question and waits for your yes. The best place to start.
Claude Desktop
Connects; check paid runs
Add one block to its config file. Claude can browse models and fetch prices. Starting a paid job needs the app to show SpicyAPI's confirmation question; if your version can't, the job stops before anything is charged.
claude.ai in a browser
Not yet
The web app only connects to hosted connector URLs, and SpicyAPI doesn't offer one yet. Use Claude Code or Claude Desktop for now.
Cursor, VS Code, Codex, Windsurf
Same server
The same command works in other AI apps, including when they run Claude models.

Setup for every app

Set it up in 3 steps

About ten minutes, no coding. You need Node.js, a SpicyAPI key and one of the apps above.

Install Node.js
Claude starts the server with npx, which comes with Node.js 22.13 or later. Check with node --version; if it's missing or older, install the current LTS version.
Get Node.js
Create an API key
In the console, choose Create key and copy it. It starts with sk-spicy- and is shown once. You can give it a daily cap so a mistake can't spend more than you planned.
Open API keys
Add SpicyAPI to Claude
Copy the block for your app, put your key in place of the placeholder, then restart the app.

export SPICY_API_KEY="sk-spicy-..."
claude mcp add --scope user spicyapi \
  -e SPICY_API_KEY=$SPICY_API_KEY \
  -- npx --yes --package=@spicyapi/mcp spicyapi-mcp

Run both commands in the same terminal. --scope user makes SpicyAPI available in every project; don't use --scope project, which writes the key into your repository. Check with claude mcp list.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "spicyapi": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["--yes", "--package=@spicyapi/mcp", "spicyapi-mcp"],
      "env": { "SPICY_API_KEY": "YOUR_SPICY_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

Settings → Developer → Edit Config opens claude_desktop_config.json. Paste the block (or add the spicyapi entry to an existing mcpServers), replace YOUR_SPICY_API_KEY, then quit Claude Desktop completely and reopen it.

// ~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "spicyapi": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["--yes", "--package=@spicyapi/mcp", "spicyapi-mcp"],
      "env": { "SPICY_API_KEY": "YOUR_SPICY_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

Paste into ~/.cursor/mcp.json (create the file if it doesn't exist), replace YOUR_SPICY_API_KEY, and restart Cursor if the tools don't appear.

Check that it works

Ask Claude these two things. Neither costs anything.

“Check the SpicyAPI service status.”
“What is my SpicyAPI balance?”

Another app, Windows or a proxy? Full setup and troubleshooting

What you can ask Claude to make

Ask in your own words. Claude picks a model and the settings, or uses the one you name.

A picture from a description
“Make a 3:4 portrait of a lighthouse keeper at dawn, film grain. Pick an inexpensive model and show me the price first.”
Text to image on any of the image models.
From $0.0018 per image
Bring a photo to life
“Turn ~/Pictures/harbour.jpg into a 5-second clip with a slow push-in.”
Claude uploads the photo from your computer and starts an image-to-video job.
From $0.011 per output second
Make a clip longer
“Continue my last video for another 5 seconds. Keep the camera drifting toward the window.”
Video extend picks up where a clip ends, on the models that support it.
From $0.011 per output second
Sharpen a result
“Upscale the picture you just made.”
Upscalers for pictures and video, priced per image or per second.
From $0.012 per image

Compare before you spend

Browsing models and fetching quotes is free.

“Compare what a 5-second clip costs on three video models.”

What it costs

The server is free
The MCP server is free and open source. You pay only for the jobs you approve.
Pay per call
Each picture or clip is billed to your SpicyAPI balance in US dollars, not to your Claude plan. No subscription.
Price first, then the job
Claude fetches the exact quote before every paid job. Video is priced per second, so a longer clip costs more.
If a job fails
The money held for a failed job is normally released. A few models say on their page that a refused request is still billed.

Models Claude can call

A few of the 145 image and video models in the live catalogue. Ask Claude to list the rest, or browse them all.

Images

Seedream 5.0 Profrom $0.036 per image
Qwen Image 2.1from $0.024 per image
Seedream 5.0 Flashfrom $0.029 per image
Qwen Image 3.0 Profrom $0.04 per image
Qwen Image 3.0from $0.03 per image
Qwen Image 2.1 LoRAfrom $0.03 per image

Video

Wan 3.0from $0.045 per output second
Seedance 2.5from $0.074 per output second
Wan 3.0 Primefrom $0.061 per output second
Seedance 2.0 Fastfrom $0.023 per output second
MiniMax H3from $0.037 per output second
Kling 4.0from $0.216 per output second

Browse all models

Claude decides what it sends

Claude follows Anthropic's usage policies, so it may reword or decline some requests even when the model you picked would accept them. SpicyAPI can't change that. This page is about range and pay-per-call pricing. If you want your prompt to reach the model exactly as you wrote it, use Studio or call the API directly: SpicyAPI adds no content filter of its own, and what a request can produce depends on the model.

Open Studio API quickstart

Other ways to use the same models

MCP server guide
Every tool, every app and the full troubleshooting table.
Read the MCP guide
Command line
Repeatable commands and batches from a terminal, with the same key.
Open the CLI page
API keys
Create a key just for Claude with its own daily cap, or revoke one.
Manage keys

Questions

Try it with one picture

Create a key, add the server, then ask Claude for a picture. You'll see the price before anything is charged.

Get your API key Read the MCP guide

Generate images and video from Claude

Can Claude generate images?

On its own: no

With MCP: yes

You stay in charge of spending

Which Claude apps work

Set it up in 3 steps

Install Node.js

Create an API key

Add SpicyAPI to Claude

Check that it works

What you can ask Claude to make

A picture from a description

Bring a photo to life

Make a clip longer

Sharpen a result

Compare before you spend

What it costs

The server is free

Pay per call

Price first, then the job

If a job fails

Models Claude can call

Images

Video

Claude decides what it sends

Other ways to use the same models

MCP server guide

Command line

API keys

Questions

Can Claude generate images?+

Can Claude make videos?+

Does it work on claude.ai in the browser?+

Does my Claude subscription pay for the pictures?+

How much does a picture cost?+

Will Claude make NSFW images this way?+

Is my API key safe?+