A VPS Your AI Agent Can Price and Run via MCP or API

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Want an AI agent to size, price and run a NABHCLOUD VPS on its own? Split the job into two halves. You open the account, verify it once and load the wallet; from there the agent reads our catalogue, prices the server it needs and manages your instances through a key that you control. This guide covers what an agent can reach on NABHCLOUD without any key, what opens up once it holds one, and the limits that keep spending decisions with you.

Published by our editorial team · 25 Oct 2026 · updated 25 Oct 2026. Figures shown through the API are pulled live from our current catalogue, in INR, excluding GST.

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What an agent can see without a key

NABHCLOUD runs an open, read-only MCP server at https://nabhcloud.com/mcp/public, with its server card at https://nabhcloud.com/.well-known/mcp.json. No account or key is needed, and it holds no personal data. Its tools include get_plans, quote_server, get_support_info, search_guides and get_guide, drawing from the same catalogue shown on our pricing page, so an agent always works from current figures rather than numbers it recalls.

Agents built for plain HTTP can pull the public catalogue as JSON at https://my.nabhcloud.com/api/v1/public/catalog, and send https://my.nabhcloud.com/api/v1/public/quote a request for the price of any chosen vCPU, RAM and disk size. Figures come back in INR for India, before 18% GST, and in USD for customers outside India.

What you set up by hand, once

1. Create the account

   Sign up, then verify your phone number and email address.

2. Complete eKYC

   Verify once with Aadhaar/DigiLocker or an ID document before your first server goes live, as CERT-In requires.

3. Fund the wallet

   Add money by UPI, card or net banking. Agents cannot load the wallet or settle an invoice, so whatever you put in sets the ceiling on what the account can spend.

4. Create an API key

   In the panel, open Developer, then API keys. Pick Read only or Full access, an optional expiry date, and optionally the IP addresses allowed to use the key. It is shown to you only once.

5. Connect the agent

   Developer, then AI agents (MCP), shows the account endpoint https://my.nabhcloud.com/mcp plus a ready-made configuration for Claude. Paste in the key, and the agent operates within that key's limits.

What the agent can do once it holds your key

• List your servers and check their status, usage and billing: the tools billing_ledger, billing_usage, billing_payments and invoice_pdf return the wallet ledger, per-server usage, payment records and invoice PDFs.
• Price and request a resize of a server or a Kubernetes cluster, on a key with write access, using an idempotency key so a repeated call never triggers a second resize.
• Stay within the wallet: an upgrade never costs more than the wallet has. If funds fall short, the change waits for your next top-up and can be cancelled until then.
• Avoid accidental deletion: removing a server, cluster or bucket needs a full-access key that has an IP restriction set and destructive actions turned on, called from one of the allowed addresses.

What the agent is blocked from doing

• Load money into the wallet or settle invoices.
• Create or view API keys, so it cannot grant itself wider access.
• See a generated root password.
• Reach any account other than the one its key belongs to.

Billing logic the agent can work with

Hourly servers are charged per hour started, with a 1-hour minimum: the hourly rate equals the monthly list price divided by 730, so an agent that spins up a test server and removes it later pays only for the hours it actually ran. A server goes live under a minute after being ordered. Monthly terms and longer commitments bring down the cost per month through term pricing, and every invoice issued is a GST tax invoice.

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