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Cloudways MCP connector

The Cloudways connector brings your Cloudways servers and hosted apps into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other AI clients, so your team can list, launch, clone, scale, restart and retire them by asking, with every action logged under the person who asked.

  • How it connects. Connects with an API key. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.

  • One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.

  • Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.

How to connect

How to connect Cloudways to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Two steps, about a minute.

1

In Elaichi

Connect Cloudways once

  1. Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Cloudways.

  2. Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.

  3. Paste a Cloudways API key. One person generates a token in Cloudways and pastes it once. Everyone else works through Share with, and never sees it.

The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.

Add connection

Choose a connector.

cloudways
Cloudways
Apache Airflow
Apify
Boomi
Browserbase
Caspio
2

In your AI client

Point it at one endpoint

Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.

Cloudways MCP connector for Claude

  1. 1

    Open Customize, then Connectors.

  2. 2

    Press Add.

  3. 3

    Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  4. 4

    Sign in and approve.

On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.

Cloudways MCP connector for ChatGPT

  1. 1

    Open Plugins, then press the + button.

  2. 2

    Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.

  4. 4

    Press Create, then sign in and approve.

Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.

Cloudways MCP connector for Cursor

  1. 1

    Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json.

  2. 2

    Add the endpoint under mcpServers.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elaichi": {
      "url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.

Connect Cloudways to any MCP client

  1. 1

    Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  2. 2

    Sign in and approve.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elaichi": {
      "url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.

Use cases

What teams do with Cloudways through Elaichi

Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.

  • Operations

    Restart a stalled server without opening a console

    When a client site stops responding, ask which Cloudways server it lives on and restart it in the same conversation. The audit log records who did it and when.

  • Engineering

    Clone production to build a staging copy

    Ask for a clone of the production server before a major release, then point the team at the copy. No hunting through the Cloudways dashboard for the right server.

  • Client services

    Launch a new client site on an existing server

    Pick the server, choose the application package, and create the app in one ask. The agent checks available packages and settings first so the new site starts with the right options.

  • Operations

    Scale up before a launch, back down after

    Ask to scale a Cloudways server or grow its storage volume ahead of a campaign, then bring it back down once traffic settles.

  • Finance

    See every server, size, provider and region

    Ask for a list of running Cloudways servers with their sizes and cloud providers, then spot the ones nobody has used in months and stop or delete them.

  • Marketing

    Retire a campaign microsite cleanly

    When a landing page has done its job, find the app on its Cloudways server and remove it, or stop the whole server if nothing else runs there.

Try asking

  • “Which apps are running on our staging servers.”
  • “List backups scheduled this week across all apps.”
  • “Show server sizes available in the Frankfurt region.”

See all 339 Cloudways tools below

Compare

Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for Cloudways

All three can connect Cloudways to an AI assistant, and all three have admin controls. They differ in where access lives and how you pay.

Elaichi compared with Zapier MCP and Composio for Cloudways, by what to check
What to check Elaichi Zapier MCP Composio
Where the AI connects One address for the whole organization. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp A server per member, created at sign-in. An MCP endpoint per team, or an SDK.
Control over Cloudways tools Allow or restrict single Cloudways tools, per role or user. App and action restrictions on the account. Role permissions, down to the action.
Record of calls One audit entry per Cloudways call. A History tab of tool calls. A log of every tool call.
Single sign-on SAML or OIDC, plus SCIM, on Gold. SAML on Enterprise. SAML and OIDC on Enterprise.
Price $15 per user per month. 2 tasks per successful call. Billed per tool call.

Sources: Zapier MCP docs, security, usage; Composio docs, gateway, enterprise, pricing. Checked September 2026.

Longer take: Zapier MCP alternative and when you don't need an MCP gateway.

AI tools

Cloudways tools for your AI agents

339 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Cloudways, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.

Showing 330 of 339 Cloudways tools here. Connect Cloudways and call search_tools or tools/list over the MCP endpoint for the complete set.

See it in Elaichi

What connecting Cloudways gets you

6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Cloudways account.

The agent

Ask Cloudways questions, get real answers.

Type a question in plain language and get answers pulled from live Cloudways records.

  • apps
  • servers
  • backups
  • packages

Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.

Which apps are running on our staging servers.

List backups scheduled this week across all apps.

Show server sizes available in the Frankfurt region.

Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

MCP clients

One endpoint, every client, no shared keys.

Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor all connect to Cloudways through one governed org endpoint.

ElaichiMCP clients
Claude ChatGPT Cursor

Copy the endpoint

https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Client Connected by Status Last used
Claude
E

Emily Carter

• Connected 4 minutes ago
Cursor
M

Megan Brooks

• Connected 2 hours ago
ChatGPT
R

Ryan Hayes

• Connected Yesterday

Tool catalog

339 Cloudways tools, zero custom code.

Every Cloudways method and resource is cataloged and ready to call, no code required.

  • Create a Cloudways oauth access token
  • List all Cloudways providers
  • List all Cloudways regions
  • List all Cloudways server sizes
ElaichiTools
Tool Action Description
Create a Cloudways oauth access token Create Generate an OAuth access token for the Cloudways API. Returns: access_token, token_type, expires_in. Access tokens expire after 3600 seconds of inactivity.
List all Cloudways providers List List all cloud infrastructure providers supported by Cloudways, such as DigitalOcean, Vultr, Amazon, Google, and Linode. Returns: id, name. No required parameters.
List all Cloudways regions List List available Cloudways regions grouped by cloud provider. Returns: amazon, linode, gce, vultr, do.
List all Cloudways server sizes List List available server sizes for each cloud provider in Cloudways. Returns: amazon, do, gce, vultr, linode.
List all Cloudways apps List List all applications supported by Cloudways along with their available versions. Returns a map keyed by application name where each entry contains label and versions.

Toolboxes

Every team gets its own Cloudways toolbox.

Toolboxes scope Cloudways access separately for each team that needs it.

  • Platform Engineering
  • DevOps
  • Product
  • Support
ElaichiToolboxes
Name Source template Tools Created

Platform Engineering toolbox

Cloudways · servers and deployments

Cloudways starter 18 Mar 4, 2026

DevOps toolbox

Cloudways · backups and monitoring

— 9 Mar 2, 2026

Product toolbox

Cloudways · apps and packages

— 24 Feb 27, 2026

Support toolbox

Cloudways · client app issues

Cloudways starter 6 Feb 19, 2026

Finance toolbox

Cloudways · billing and packages

— 31 Jan 30, 2026

IT Operations toolbox

Cloudways · provisioning and regions

— 12 Jan 22, 2026

Shared connections

Delegate Cloudways access without sharing passwords.

Teammates work through a shared Cloudways connection without ever seeing the credential.

  • Production Hosting
  • Staging Environment
  • Client Sites
  • Agency Ops
ElaichiConnections
Connection Scope Status Access
CL

Cloudways (Production Hosting)

Connected by Emily Carter

Personal • Active 1 team · 6 members
CL

Cloudways (Staging Environment)

Connected by Jake Morgan

Organization • Active 3 teams · 24 members
CL

Cloudways (Client Sites)

Connected by Megan Brooks

Organization • Active 2 teams · 11 members
CL

Cloudways (Agency Ops)

Connected by Tyler Reed

Personal • Needs re-auth 1 team · 3 members
CL

Cloudways (QA Servers)

Connected by Ryan Hayes

Personal • Active Not shared
CL

Cloudways (Infra Team)

Connected by Ashley Parker

Personal • Active 2 teams · 9 members

Audit log

Every Cloudways action, logged and traceable.

See who did what on Cloudways, when it happened and which resource it touched.

  • When
  • Who
  • What happened
  • Type
ElaichiAudit log
When Who What happened Type

2 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:10 PM

E

Emily Carter

emily.carter@northwind.io

Restriction Created Access

8 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:04 PM

J

Jake Morgan

jake.morgan@northwind.io

Restriction Updated Access

14 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:58 PM

M

Megan Brooks

megan.brooks@northwind.io

Role Assigned Access

20 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:52 PM

T

Tyler Reed

tyler.reed@northwind.io

Cloudways Users Updated MCP

26 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:46 PM

R

Ryan Hayes

ryan.hayes@northwind.io

Cloudways Apps Created MCP

32 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:40 PM

A

Ashley Parker

ashley.parker@northwind.io

Cloudways Apps List Toolbox

Launching soon

From answering questions to doing the work

A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.

Automations

A schedule triggers real Cloudways work end to end.

Records are fetched, grouped, drafted, approved by a person, then posted back to Cloudways.

Cloudways digest

Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter

  1. ✓

    Schedule

    Every weekday at 8:00 AM

    0.2s
  2. ✓

    Fetch apps

    Cloudways

    1.4s
  3. ✓

    Group by owner

    Transform

    0.1s
  4. ✓

    Draft the digest

    Agent step

    Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary

    6.2s
  5. Approve the digest

    Needs approval

    Assigned to Michael Brennan

    Approve
  6. Post the digest

    Cloudways

    Queued

Collections and dashboards

Cloudways health, computed on a schedule, not asked for.

Metrics and a 14 day chart of records show Cloudways activity broken down by team.

Cloudways health

Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the apps collection

Live

Apps

1,284 ↓ 12%

Servers

96 ↓ 8%

Needs attention

3 ↑ 2

Updated this week

412 ↑ 9%

Apps created

Last 14 days

By team

Share of activity

Production Hosting 34%

Staging Environment 27%

Client Sites 21%

Agency Ops 18%

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do I connect Cloudways to Claude?

Two steps. In Elaichi, add the Cloudways connector and paste the API key from your Cloudways account settings; there is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then in Claude open Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Sign in with your Elaichi login and Cloudways is available in your next conversation.

Does Cloudways work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?

Yes. Once Cloudways is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, the Elaichi Agent and any other MCP client. You connect Cloudways once and every client you sign into picks it up.

What can an AI agent actually do with my Cloudways account?

It can list your Cloudways servers and the apps hosted on them, create new servers or apps, clone a server, start, stop or restart one, and scale a server's size or storage volume. It can also look up the providers, regions, server sizes, packages, backup frequencies and monitoring options Cloudways offers before it acts. Because Cloudways exposes a large set of actions, short concrete asks like "restart the server hosting the Acme site" work better than long paragraphs.

Does connecting Cloudways give the AI access to every server in my account?

The AI only sees what the person who signed in can see. If your Cloudways API key belongs to an account with three servers, that is what the agent can reach, and Elaichi can narrow that further, for example to listing and restarting only. Elaichi never grants more than the connected Cloudways account already holds.

Can my team share one Cloudways connection?

Yes. One person connects Cloudways in Elaichi with the API key and shares the connection with a team, and nobody else ever handles the key. Each teammate still signs in to Elaichi as themselves, so the audit log names the actual person who restarted or scaled a Cloudways server, not the shared account.

Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Cloudways?

Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi work per action, so you can allow listing servers and apps while blocking deletion, scaling or shutting down a Cloudways server. A blocked action is never shown to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor at all, so no prompt, accidental or otherwise, can reach it.

What happens to a Cloudways connection when someone leaves?

Offboarding that person in Elaichi ends their access to Cloudways at once, across every AI client they used. A shared Cloudways connection keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you want to remove Cloudways entirely, disconnecting it once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and every other client together.

Does the Cloudways MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?

Yes. Cloudways is reached over the same MCP endpoint every client uses, so anything that speaks MCP can call it — Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and OpenCode among them — alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.

Is Elaichi an alternative to Zapier MCP for Cloudways?

Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use Cloudways. Zapier MCP fits a team that already automates in Zapier, since each person signs in and acts as themselves in that account. Elaichi fits when IT wants one address for the whole company, per-tool rules by role, and a record of every Cloudways call.

How is Elaichi different from Composio for Cloudways?

Composio gives AI agents tools and sign-in handling across 1,000+ apps, for developers building agents or people using an assistant, billed per tool call. Elaichi gives a company's own people governed access to Cloudways: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.

Put Cloudways in front of your team

14 days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.

Works with
Claude ChatGPT Cursor and any other MCP client, or the Elaichi Agent.
When the trial ends
Nothing is deleted. Connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are, so subscribing picks up exactly where you left off.