AI · alternatives · 2026

This MCP server connects large language models like Claude and Cursor to cloud cost data stored in Vantage, a FinOps platform supporting 20+ infrastructure providers including AWS, Datadog, and MongoDB. Users with a… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 2 we have checked on their own sites, 2 of them free or with a free tier.

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   Vantage▲89

   A cloud cost transparency platform

   2021 · vantage.sh · its alternatives →

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   Vantage – An alternative AWS console focused on developer experience▲221

   Vantage is a self-service cloud cost platform that gives developers the tools they need to analyze, report on and optimize AWS, Azure, and GCP costs.

   2021 · vantage.sh · its alternatives →

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   mcp-usefree tier, from $25/mo▲581

   Hi HN, Luigi here. We maintain mcp-use an open-source TypeScript framework for building MCP servers and MCP Apps: https://github.com/mcp-use/mcp-use MCP is now (finally) stateless so we rewrote mcp-use v2 from scratch for the 2026-07-28 MCP spec revision: https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-07-28/ Thanks to the rebuild: - Throughput: +27% → from 8,615 to 10,982 median ops/sec - Cold launch: 2.2x faster → from 151.6 ms to 68.1 ms - Clean install: 82% smaller → from 404.6 MiB to 74.4 MiB Benchmark with methodology here:…

   2025 · manufact.com · its alternatives →

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   See your costs for each AWS resource▲32

   Vantage is a self-service cloud cost platform that gives developers the tools they need to analyze, report on and optimize AWS, Azure, and GCP costs.

   2021 · vantage.sh · its alternatives →

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   Strata▲652

   One MCP server for AI agents to handle thousands of tools

   2025 · klavis.ai · its alternatives →

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   Keboola MCP Server▲402

   Build production-grade data pipelines with just a prompt

   2025 · keboola.com · its alternatives →

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   WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare▲157

   A read-only MCP server that lets your AI agent search and read your own WhatsApp messages. Runs on Cloudflare Workers. - finereli/whatsapp-mcp

   4d ago · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Pipedream MCP▲291

   2,500+ APIs and 10,000+ tools for your AI assistant

   2025 · mcp.pipedream.com · its alternatives →

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   nOps▲132

   Reduce your AWS costs by 50% on auto-pilot

   2022 · nops.io · its alternatives →

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    LinkedIn MCP▲105

    MCP server that lets AI assistants control your LinkedIn

    2025 · linkedapi.io · its alternatives →

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    Alpha Vantage MCP▲104

    We just released an MCP server that lets Claude (or any MCP client) pull real-time and historical financial data: equities, options chains, crypto, FX, commodities, fundamentals, economic indicators, and 50+ technical signals. You can ask things like: “Plot NVDA’s RSI vs AMD’s over the past year.” “Show the yield curve shift since 2020.” “What are Apple’s recent earnings surprise trends? “Make a 3-statement model for ORCL.” Claude runs the requests, does the math, and returns the data or generates charts/models all inside the chat. Setup takes about a minute. You’ll need Claude Pro…

    Nov 2025 · mcp.alphavantage.co · its alternatives →

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    Apideck MCP Server▲178

    Give AI agents access to real-time data across 200+ apps

    May 2026 · apideck.com · its alternatives →

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    Cloud-Ready Postgres MCP Server▲167

    Hey HN, I built pg-mcp, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for PostgreSQL that provides structured schema inspection and query execution for LLMs and agents. It's multi-tenant and runs over HTTP/SSE (not stdio) Features - Supports multiple database connections from multiple agents - Schema Introspection: Returns table structures, types, indexes and constraints; enriched with descriptions from pg_catalog. (for well documented databases) - Read-Only Queries: Controlled execution of queries via MCP. - EXPLAIN Tool: Helps smart agents optimize queries before execution. - Extension…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Usage 2.0 – Cut AWS Spend by 57% in 5 Minutes▲135

    Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We launched on Hacker News for the first time early last year, and we've made a lot of progress since then. We've saved tens of millions of dollars for companies, and we are even more excited to announce the launch of a new product: insured reservations for RDS! We worked closely with AWS on this feature and are excited to finally make it generally available. We help companies drive down AWS EC2 & RDS spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps and Software Engineers end up spending time managing costs…

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    I built a service to help companies reduce AWS spend by 50%▲123

    Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We help companies drive down AWS EC2 spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps and Software Engineers end up spending time managing costs rather than focusing on business problems. Previous to founding Usage, I worked on high-performance computing research at JP Morgan Chase and as a software engineer at a number of smaller startups. Here's how it works: We are typically brought in by a DevOps manager to cut AWS EC2 costs. The app is entirely self-service and the savings are generated automatically,…

    2022 · usage.ai · its alternatives →

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    MCP-Builder.aifree tier, from $29/mo▲174

    The fastest way to connect your data with your AI Tools.

    Aug 2026 · mcp-builder.ai · its alternatives →

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    MCP server for Blender that builds 3D scenes via natural language▲151

    Hi HN! I built a custom MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that connects Blender to LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, and any other llm supporting tool calling and mcps, enabling the AI to understand and control 3D scenes using natural language. You can describe an entire environment like: > “Create a small village with 5 huts arranged around a central bonfire, add a river flowing on the left, place a wooden bridge across it, and scatter trees randomly.” And the system parses that, reasons about the scene, and builds it inside Blender — no manual modeling or scripting needed. What it can do: -…

    2025 · blender-mcp-psi.vercel.app · its alternatives →

18. 18WM
    We made an MCP Server so Cursor can build things from REST API docs▲102

    2025 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →

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    OpenAI Cost Monitoring▲13

    Hi HN, My name is Ben Schaechter and I’m Co-Founder and CEO of https://vantage.sh - a cloud cost visibility and optimization platform. We just added support for monitoring OpenAI costs and usage to Vantage and I wanted to share a demo we put together with HN as I thought people might find it interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzAOU1-uMrM In early April we started getting requests from customers to add OpenAI cost support specifically as it was a bit opaque as to what exactly was driving costs. The way this works is that it uses an undocumented API available…

    2023 · its alternatives →

20. 20OS
    Open-Source MCP Server for Context and AI Tools▲43

    Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful, but they’re limited by fixed context windows and outdated knowledge. What if your AI could access live search, structured data extraction, OCR, and more—all through a standardized interface? We built the JigsawStack MCP Server, an open-source implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that lets any AI model call external tools effortlessly. Here’s what it unlocks: - Web Search & Scraping: Fetch live information and extract structured data from web pages. - OCR & Structured Data Extraction: Process images, receipts, invoices, and handwritten…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Hyperbrowser MCP Server – Connect AI agents to the web through browsers▲63

    Hi HN! Excited to share our MCP Server at Hyperbrowser - something we’ve been working on for a few days. We think it’s a pretty neat way to connect LLMs and IDEs like Cursor / Windsurf to the internet. Our MCP server exposes seven tools for data collection and browsing: 1. `scrape_webpage` - Extract formatted (markdown, screenshot etc) content from any webpage 2. `crawl_webpages` - Navigate through multiple linked pages and extract LLM-friendly formatted content 3. `extract_structured_data` - Convert messy HTML into structured JSON 4. `search_with_bing` - Query the web and get results…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A fast CLI and MCP server for managing Lambda cloud GPU instances▲24

    I built an unofficial CLI and MCP server for Lambda cloud GPU instances. The main idea: your AI agents can now spin up and manage Lambda GPUs for you. The MCP server exposes tools to find, launch, and terminate instances. Add it to Claude Code, Cursor, or any agent with one command and you can say things like "launch an H100, ssh in, and run big_job.py" Other features: - Notifications via Slack, Discord, or Telegram when instances are SSH-ready - 1Password support for API keys - Also includes a standalone CLI with the same functionality Written in Rust. MIT licensed. Note: This is an…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I built a service to help companies save on their AWS bills▲73

    Hey HN: I'm Kaveh, the founder of Usage (https://www.usage.ai/) We help companies drive down AWS costs. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. Stakeholders, especially engineers, are required to spend unnecessary time manually finding underutilized or overly expensive EC2s. We believe the optimization process should be done automatically through a series of sophisticated algorithms. At the moment, there are over 70,000 AWS EC2 prices - doing that manually just won't scale at most organizations. My background is in software engineering. Previous to founding Usage, I…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Simple to build MCP servers that easily connect with custom LLM calls▲57

    Hi! After learning about MCP, I'm really excited about the future of provider-agnostic, re-usable tooling. Unfortunately I've found that while it's easy to implement an MCP server for use with tools that support it (such as Claude Desktop), it's not as easy to implement your own support (such as integrating an MCP server into your own LLM application). We implemented a thin MCP wrapper that easily integrates with Mirascope calls so that you can hook up an MCP server and client super easily to any supported LLM provider. Excited to see what people build with this!

    2025 · mirascope.com · its alternatives →

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