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Automate your ZAP services with MCP and REST API

Pick the right path for your gameservers, VPS, dedicated servers, and TeamSpeak servers: MCP Connect for AI clients like Cursor and Claude, or the REST API for your own scripts, bots, and integrations.

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MCP and API access are part of ZapX Pass Plus

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MCP vs. REST API: three paths to automation

One account, three ways in: MCP is an open standard that lets AI clients discover and call tools. The REST API is the classic interface with fixed endpoints for your own code. Pick what fits your workflow.

MCP Connect

For Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and other MCP clients. Controls gameservers, VPS, dedicated servers, and TeamSpeak.

  • Hosted at /api/mcp with OAuth Connect
  • Fine-grained permissions per connection
  • Manage existing services and adjust plans — right from your AI client

REST API

For CI/CD, custom dashboards, and classic integrations. Controls gameservers, VPS, dedicated servers, and TeamSpeak.

  • OpenAPI 3.1 at /api/v1/openapi.json
  • Bearer API keys with the zapx_ prefix
  • Orders, plan changes, and operations over REST

ZapX AI Agent

Natural language right in the customer panel — no external client needed.

  • Trigger server, DNS, and backup tasks from chat
  • Part of ZapX Pass with AI access
  • Complements MCP, does not replace it

FAQ

Which path fits you?

In short: MCP vs. REST API vs. ZapX AI Agent.

AI client vs. your own integration.

MCP Connect is ideal when you work in Cursor, Claude, or Gemini: you sign in with OAuth Connect, your AI client uses the /api/mcp endpoint right in the chat, and you set permissions per connection. The REST API suits scripts, CI/CD, dashboards, and classic integrations: you authenticate with a Bearer API key, work with the OpenAPI 3.1 description, and set permissions on the key itself.

Interactive Scalar reference with OpenAPI.

You'll find every endpoint in the interactive Scalar reference, and an overview of the REST API on the API page. Interactive API referenceREST API overview

ZAP does not host LLMs.

AI hosting usually means GPU or model infrastructure. ZAP connects your existing services via MCP or a REST API.

Yes, MCP and API access are part of ZapX Pass Plus.

You use MCP Connect and the REST API with ZapX Pass Plus. For the ZapX AI Agent in the customer panel, you need a ZapX Pass with AI access.

No, it complements it.

The ZapX AI Agent runs directly in the customer panel, without an external client. MCP Connect links your services to your own AI client such as Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini.

You decide the permissions yourself.

MCP Connect links your AI client via OAuth, with fine-grained permissions per connection. For the REST API, you create an API key under Settings → API access and set the permissions it needs.

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MCP and API access are part of ZapX Pass Plus

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