Use DeepSeek, Seedance and Seedream from Claude Code
API Store runs a hosted MCP server. Add it to Claude Code and your agent can generate images and video, or ask DeepSeek for a second opinion, without leaving the terminal. Claude Code keeps using its own model for the conversation; API Store models are the tools it calls.
Before you start
- Claude Code installed
- An API Store key (it starts with sk-) and some balance
Steps
- Run the command below, replacing sk-... with your key.
- Start Claude Code and run /mcp to check that apistore is connected.
- Ask for something that needs a tool, for example: "Generate a 5-second 720p video of a paper boat on a lake with Seedance 2.0 mini."
Values to enter
claude mcp add --transport http apistore https://api.apistore.cloud/mcp \ --header "Authorization: Bearer sk-..."
https://api.apistore.cloud/mcp
What the tools can do
- list_models: the models on sale and your prices
- chat: send a prompt or messages to a model and get its answer
- create_image: make images and get their links
- create_video: start a video and get its id
- get_video: the status of a video, then the link to the file when it is done
Cost control
- Every tool call is billed to your API Store balance at the normal price.
- Give Claude Code its own key with a daily spending cap.
- Video jobs reserve the cost of the longest possible result and charge only what was made.
Troubleshooting
- The server does not connect. Check the key and that the URL ends in /mcp, not /v1.
- 402 insufficient_balance. Top up, or raise the key's daily cap.