Pexels

Overview

Pexels is an MCP server that brings stock photo, video, and curated collection search directly into your AI assistant. Once installed, it exposes Pexels as a set of tools your model can invoke to find and retrieve media on demand.

The server runs locally via the npm package mcp-pexels, communicating with your MCP client over stdio. You'll need a PEXELS_API_KEY environment variable to authenticate. The latest release is v1.0.2, published under the MIT license with source code available at developer-ishan/mcp-pexels on GitHub.

Pexels appears in the AI & Agents category and works with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, and other MCP-compatible clients. If you're the maintainer, claim this listing to verify ownership and keep information up to date.

Installation

// claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pexels": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-pexels"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PEXELS_API_KEY": "<pexels-api-key>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Requires PEXELS_API_KEY