Kinsta MCP server

Read Kinsta sites, environments, backups, logs and analytics; clear caches, restart PHP, back up. Hosted by usefulapi: connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client.

Connect Kinsta50 free tool calls a month

What can I ask?

Turn on the Kinsta connector, then ask in plain words. The AI picks the tools.

Which sites are on my account, and what is each one's status?
How many visits did my main site get this month?
Which plugins on my live site have updates available?
Clear the cache on the live version of my main site.

What you can do with Kinsta in Claude and ChatGPT

For WordPress site owners and agencies who host their sites on Kinsta.

List our sites with status and environments

Lists the WordPress sites with status and labels, and the live and staging environments with domain, PHP version and WordPress version.

Check traffic and usage of a site

Gets this month's visits and bandwidth of a site, and analytics of an environment, such as top countries, referrers, response codes and disk space.

Find plugins and themes that need an update

Lists the plugins and themes of an environment with version, available update version and vulnerability flags.

Read error, access or cache performance logs

Reads recent lines of the error log, access log or cache performance log, within a time range or filtered by a search text.

Review domains, redirects, blocked IPs and HTTPS

Lists an environment's domains and redirect rules, the IPs blocked from it, and whether HTTPS is forced.

Clear a cache, restart PHP or create a backup

Clears the page or edge cache of an environment, restarts its PHP engine, or starts a manual backup with a note. Each returns an operation id to check.

Changes data

How do I connect Kinsta?

Before you connect

The login page asks for your Kinsta API key.

Create one in MyKinsta → your user name → Company settings → API Keys → Create API Key (company owners, administrators and developers can). The key is shown only once. It acts with the permissions of the role of the person who created it. Your key is used only to call the Kinsta API on your behalf; it is never shown to anyone.

Claude claude.ai · Desktop

Open Customize → Connectors, then click + Add → Add custom connector.
Enter the name Kinsta and this URL, then click Add:
https://kinsta.usefulapi.io/mcp
Claude opens the login page: enter your Kinsta API key.
In a chat, click + → Connectors and turn on Kinsta.

Team and Enterprise: an Owner adds the connector for the organization first.

ChatGPT chatgpt.com

Open Plugins, click +, then Add custom MCP server.
Enter the name Kinsta and this URL, choose OAuth as the authentication, confirm the warning and create it:
https://kinsta.usefulapi.io/mcp
ChatGPT opens the login page: enter your Kinsta API key.
In Plugins, install Kinsta, then choose it in a chat.

No Add custom MCP server option? It depends on your account or workspace settings: see OpenAI's guide.

Claude Code

Run this command, then run /mcp in Claude Code to log in:

claude mcp add --transport http kinsta https://kinsta.usefulapi.io/mcp

Cursor

Add to Cursor or add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kinsta": {
      "url": "https://kinsta.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Add to VS Code or add this to .vscode/mcp.json:

{
  "servers": {
    "kinsta": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://kinsta.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Codex

Run these commands. The second one opens the login page:

codex mcp add kinsta --url https://kinsta.usefulapi.io/mcp

codex mcp login kinsta

Other clients

Windsurf, Cline, Zed and other MCP clients: add this URL as a remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP). The client then opens the login page in your browser.

https://kinsta.usefulapi.io/mcp

Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your Kinsta API key. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.

Pricing

Plan	Price	Limit
Free	$0	50 tool calls / month
Proper company	$9/mo · $90/yr	10,000 tool calls / month
Pro+per company	$39/mo · $390/yr	100,000 tool calls / month

Each paid plan covers this Kinsta server only. Ask your AI to run kinsta_upgrade and choose Pro or Pro+, billed monthly or yearly (it returns a Stripe Checkout link). If you already have Pro, ask to change it to Pro+. The change requires your confirmation, keeps your billing interval and charges the price difference for the rest of the period immediately. Cancel any time with kinsta_cancel_subscription: your paid plan continues to the end of the paid period, with no refund for the current period, and asking to resume the same plan with kinsta_upgrade before then undoes the cancel. Or write to support@usefulapi.io.

Tools 27

Show all 27 tools (the AI picks them for you)

Read only · 18

Get API key infokinsta_get_api_key_info
Details of the Kinsta API key in use: its name, status, expiry and the company id it belongs to. The key itself is never shown.
List data center regionskinsta_list_available_regions
The data center regions (name and region code) the company can host sites in.
List activity logskinsta_list_activity_logs
The company's activity log (who did what: site actions, DNS, migrations, billing, notifications, user management), newest first, with type, status, time, initiator and a description. Page with limit and offset (the reply's total tells how many exist).
List siteskinsta_list_sites
List the company's WordPress sites (id, name, display name, status, labels). With include_environments the live/staging environment ids, primary domain, PHP version, WordPress version and SSH host/port come too: use those environment ids for the other tools.
Get sitekinsta_get_site
One site by id, with its status and environments.
List site environmentskinsta_list_site_environments
The environments (live, staging, ...) of one site: id, name, PHP engine version, WordPress version, primary domain, edge cache and CDN ids.
Get site usage this monthkinsta_get_site_usage
A site's usage for the current billing month: visits, bandwidth or CDN bandwidth.
List environment domainskinsta_list_environment_domains
The domains attached to one environment (id, name, whether Kinsta DNS/Cloudflare is used).
List company domainskinsta_list_company_domains
All domains the company has in Kinsta DNS / hosting, across sites.
List backupskinsta_list_backups
The backups of one environment (manual, scheduled and system): id, name, note, type and creation time (epoch ms). Backups cannot be restored or deleted from here.
List WordPress pluginskinsta_list_plugins
The plugins of one environment: name, title, status (active/inactive), version, available update version, vulnerability flags and the auto-update type.
List WordPress themeskinsta_list_themes
The themes of one environment: name, title, status, version, available update version and vulnerability flags.
Get environment logskinsta_get_logs
Recent lines of an environment's error log, access log or Kinsta cache performance log, optionally within a time range and filtered by a search text. Returns the log as text (the newest lines the API gives). Access logs contain visitor IP addresses.
Get environment analyticskinsta_get_analytics
Traffic and resource analytics for one environment: visits, bandwidth, CDN bandwidth, disk space, response codes, visit dispersion, or the top countries, cities, browsers, hosts, referrers, user agents or ASNs. Choose a time_span or a from/to date range (yyyy-mm-dd). The company id is filled in automatically.
Get force-HTTPS statuskinsta_get_force_https_status
Whether the environment forces HTTPS (ENABLED_FOR_ALL, ENABLED_REDIRECT_TO_PRIMARY or DISABLED).
List redirect ruleskinsta_list_redirect_rules
The environment's redirect rules (from, to, type, domain, optional country/city targeting), paged.
List denied IPskinsta_list_denied_ips
The IP addresses and ranges blocked from the environment.
Get operation statuskinsta_get_operation_status
The status of an asynchronous operation (cache clear, PHP restart, manual backup, ...) by the operation_id the write tool returned. status 200 = finished, 202 = still running, other = failed.

Changes data · 5

Clear site cachekinsta_clear_site_cache
WRITE: clear the page cache of one environment (the site is briefly slower while the cache warms up; nothing is lost). Returns an operation_id: check it with kinsta_get_operation_status.
Clear edge cachekinsta_clear_edge_cache
WRITE: clear Kinsta's edge cache for one environment, optionally only for one URL (and its subdirectories). Nothing is lost; pages are cached again on the next visits. Returns an operation_id.
Clear CDN cachekinsta_clear_cdn_cache
WRITE: clear the CDN cache of one environment (nothing is lost; files are fetched from the origin again). Needs the environment's cdn_cache_id from kinsta_list_sites. Returns an operation_id.
Restart PHP enginekinsta_restart_php
WRITE: restart the PHP engine of one environment. Requests in flight fail and the site may be unavailable for a few seconds. Returns an operation_id.
Create manual backupkinsta_create_manual_backup
WRITE: start a manual backup of one environment, with an optional note. Kinsta limits the number of manual backups per environment; when the limit is reached the request fails and nothing is deleted. Returns an operation_id.

Your usefulapi plan · 4

Usage status (free-tier meter)kinsta_usage_status
Report the caller's current usage: the plan, calls used this month, the limit of the plan (the free monthly cap or the Pro fair use limit), remaining, and whether the limit is reached. Read-only; does not count against the meter.
Request a missing featurekinsta_request_feature
Tell usefulapi that the user needs something the Kinsta tools cannot do yet (a missing tool, field or filter). Call it only when the user asks for something none of the tools can do, and tell the user that you send the request. Do not call it for errors or for normal requests. Do not include personal data, credentials or customer records. Stored with the product name and the client type (for example Claude or Cursor), without the user's account. At most 5 requests per day. Does not count against the meter.
Upgrade to Pro or Pro+kinsta_upgrade
Get a paid plan for Kinsta (the free tier caps monthly usage). Pro: 10,000 tool calls a month, for normal use — plan "monthly" ($9/month) or "yearly" ($90/year, 2 months free). Pro+: 100,000 tool calls a month, for automations and heavy use — plan "plus" ($39/month) or "plus_yearly" ($390/year). Without a plan it returns both Pro and Pro+, each with a payment link, for the user to choose; with a plan, one link. An existing Pro subscription changes to Pro+ in place: call without confirm first, as the reply states the exact charge for this account (the price difference for the rest of the period, or in a free Pro trial the full Pro+ price, as the trial ends); then call with confirm: true. Cancel any time: the plan then runs to the end of the paid period, so it also suits a one-time job. A link opens Stripe Checkout in the browser; after payment the account upgrades automatically. Does not count against the meter.
Cancel the Pro subscriptionkinsta_cancel_subscription
Cancel the caller's Kinsta Pro subscription at the end of the paid period (no refund for the current period; Pro continues until then, then the free tier applies). Requires confirm: true. Run kinsta_upgrade later to undo the cancel before the period ends. Does not count against the meter.

FAQ

What can I do with Kinsta in Claude or ChatGPT?

List our sites with status and environments. Check traffic and usage of a site. Find plugins and themes that need an update. Read error, access or cache performance logs. Review domains, redirects, blocked IPs and HTTPS. Clear a cache, restart PHP or create a backup. See what you can do for the details.

Is this an official Kinsta product?

No. usefulapi is an independent service. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Kinsta. The server calls the Kinsta API with your own Kinsta access, so it sees only the data that your account can see.

Can I connect Kinsta to Claude or ChatGPT?

Yes. In Claude, add this server's URL as a custom connector. In ChatGPT, add it as a custom MCP server in Plugins. Then log in once. Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code and Codex work too. See the setup steps.

What do I need to connect?

The login page asks for your Kinsta API key. See Before you connect for where to find it.

Do I put my Kinsta key or an Authorization header in the client config?

No. Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your Kinsta API key. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.

How do you keep my Kinsta credentials?

The login stores them encrypted in the authorization grant of your connection. The server uses them to call the Kinsta API for you and to derive a private account id for usage metering. usefulapi does not show them on any page or in any reply. To stop all access, remove the connector and change or delete these credentials in Kinsta.

Can the AI change my Kinsta data?

Yes, if you approve it. 5 of the 23 Kinsta tools can create or change data. The other 18 are marked read-only. Most MCP clients ask you to approve a tool call before it runs.

What does it cost?

The Free plan gives 50 tool calls / month. Pro costs $9/mo or $90/yr, with 10,000 tool calls / month. Pro+ costs $39/mo or $390/yr, with 100,000 tool calls / month. Each subscription covers this Kinsta server only. Cancel any time: your paid plan then runs to the end of the paid period. Run kinsta_usage_status to see how many calls you used.

How do I subscribe or cancel?

Ask the AI to run kinsta_upgrade and choose Pro or Pro+, billed monthly or yearly: it returns a Stripe Checkout link. If you already have Pro, ask to change it to Pro+. After you confirm, your existing subscription changes in place, keeps its billing interval and charges the price difference for the rest of the period immediately. To cancel, run kinsta_cancel_subscription. Your paid plan continues to the end of the paid period.

What if a Kinsta tool that I need is missing?

Tell the AI what you wanted to do. It can send the request with kinsta_request_feature. We store the text with the server name, the type of AI client and the tool you tried, not with your account, and read every request when we plan new tools. You can send up to 5 requests per day.

Which AI clients can I use?

Any client that supports remote MCP servers (Streamable HTTP) with OAuth login: Claude (web and desktop), Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf and others.

This is a Model Context Protocol endpoint — meant to be connected from an AI client, not opened in a browser. An invalid_token response at the URL is the auth gate working as designed; clients authenticate automatically.

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