Pexafy MCP Server
https://server.smithery.ai/pexafy/pexafy-mcp/mcpPexafy searches photographs the way you would describe them to a person. Ask for "someone working alone late at night in a quiet apartment, lit only by a warm desk lamp" and you get photographs that match the scene — not photographs tagged with those words. Search runs across nine free-license sources at once (Unsplash, Pexels, Pixabay, Kaboompics, Burst, StockSnap, Picjumbo, Skitterphoto, NegativeSpace) instead of one provider at a time. Three tools, all read-only: search_photos — describe a scene in a sentence, optionally filtered by colour, orientation, source, licence, photographer or date. search_photos_by_image — give a reference image and get visually similar photographs, optionally adjusted in words: "like this, but at night". get_similar_photos — more photographs like one already found, which is how you keep a set visually consistent across an article or a deck. Every result carries the credit line to display, the image at several sizes, and its dimensions, dominant colour, orientation, source and licence. Results are numbered, so you refer to a photograph the way you would in conversation — "more like the third one" — rather than copying identifiers around. In clients that render MCP Apps, results appear as a thumbnail grid inside the conversation, and clicking one opens its full metadata without another call. The connector is hosted, so there is nothing to install and no API key to paste into a configuration file: you sign in to Pexafy once in a browser and the connector receives its own credential, separate from your password and revocable on its own. It is granted read access only and never asks for more. A free Pexafy account covers 5,000 searches a month, with no card required.
MCP readiness
Readiness is how fully this listing follows its protocol and how it behaved in our probes over 30 days. It is shown for reference and does not move it in search. Search order and leaderboards use the separate quality grade (here C+, 70.0/100), which weighs availability, conformance, p95 speed and descriptor. How the two differ
| Valid MCP handshake | 10/10 | initialize and tools/list both answered. |
| Live MCP endpoint | 23/25 | Endpoint answers the MCP initialize handshake (6697 ms); very slow response -2. |
| Protocol revision | 8/10 | Speaks MCP 2025-11-25, 1 revision(s) behind 2026-07-28. |
| Signed descriptor | n/a | No MCP standard defines a signed server descriptor. |
| Uptime (30 days) | 15/15 | 30/30 probes succeeded over 30 days (100%). |
| Tool declaration | 10/10 | Lists 5 tool(s) with descriptions. |
| Verified identity | 5/10 | Publisher declared (repository, package or homepage); claim this listing to verify domain control. |
| Freshness + modern flags | 0/5 | not seen in a source for over 30 days. |
| Auth declaration | 2/5 | Declares credential scheme: smithery_api_key. |
Compared with peers
Against 53,039 reachable MCP servers in our daily snapshot (2026-11-12 06:46 UTC). Display only; it does not change search order.
- Readiness
- Higher than 52% of peers
- This listing 81 · peer median 81
- Latency
- Faster than 5% of peers
- This listing 1,767 ms · peer median 326 ms
Where it loses the most points, and how to win them back
- Verified identity −5
— Claim the listing and prove control of its domain.
Now: Publisher declared (repository, package or homepage); claim this listing to verify domain control.
- Freshness + modern flags −5
— Keep the listing current in the registry or source it comes from.
Now: not seen in a source for over 30 days.
- Auth declaration −3
— State how to authenticate (an auth scheme, or that none is needed).
Now: Declares credential scheme: smithery_api_key.
Listed in
Directories this entry was found in.
How to connect
https://server.smithery.ai/pexafy/pexafy-mcp/mcpcurl -X POST https://server.smithery.ai/pexafy/pexafy-mcp/mcp \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{}}'