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24 alternatives to CyberCage – Security platform for AI tools and MCP servers

We've been building with AI tools and noticed there wasn't a good way to manage MCP servers across a team or see what's actually flowing to LLM providers. Who's running what? Which tools are approved? What data is going where or whats shared on AI websites? So we built CyberCage (). What it does: MCP Management — Auto or manual discovery of MCP servers, with approval workflows. Manage allowed MCP servers org-wide (down to individual tools). Secure MCP catalog (integrates with GitHub's MCP Catalog). Operations — Manage allowed AI applications org-wide. Full audit logs (Splunk integration…

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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    Make AI IDEs even smarter with your team’s knowledge

    2025 · 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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    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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    Power your AI agents with enterprise-ready tools via MCP

    2025 · merge.dev · its alternatives →

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    Build production-grade data pipelines with just a prompt

    2025 · keboola.com · its alternatives →

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    I'm Mike, Head of Eng/Product at Alloy Automation. We built MCP by Alloy Automation to give your AI agents structured access to business-critical systems without the integration headache. We've built MCP servers covering thousands of tools across platforms like Quickbooks, Xero, Notion, HubSpot, and Salesforce. Pick the tools you need, provision a server, and ship faster. Need more control? Our Connectivity API gives you programmatic access to all the same tools for custom integrations beyond MCP. Everything runs with scoped auth utilizing our battle-tested credential management system…

    2025 · ai.runalloy.com · its alternatives →

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    MCPTotal▲179

    Secure MCP servers that just work

    Dec 2025 · a16y.ai · its alternatives →

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    Many teams connecting LLMs to external tools eventually encounter the same architectural issue: as more tools and agents are added, the integration pattern becomes an N×M mesh of direct connections. Each agent implements its own auth, retries, rate limiting, and logging; each tool needs credentials distributed to multiple places and observability becomes fragmented. We built LLM gateway with this goal to provide a single place to manage authentication, authorization, routing, and observability for MCP servers, with a path toward a more general agent-gateway architecture in the future. The…

    Dec 2025 · truefoundry.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, Gabriel, Co-Founder at Permit.io. We're releasing Permit MCP Gateway today, an authorization proxy for MCP servers. TL;DR - we built an MCP Gateway that developers love and CISOs trust. Watch more[0] Now, after your little hate on using fancy copy on HN, to the real thing: MCP is in a strange place. Developers are debating whether it's overcomplicated compared to CLIs or skills files. Meanwhile, enterprises are adopting it by default because every agentic system that acts on your behalf, Cursor, Claude, Copilot, internal agents, needs a stable infrastructure for connecting to tools.…

    Mar 2026 · permit.io · its alternatives →

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

    May 2026 · apideck.com · its alternatives →

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    MCPCore▲80

    MCPCore is a complete MCP hosting and MCP cloud platform. Create, build, and deploy MCP servers in minutes, then manage auth, secrets, and analytics from a single dashboard.

    Mar 2026 · mcpcore.io · 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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    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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    Hi HN, We’re building security tooling around agentic AI systems. Today, we're releasing our public MCP catalog with detailed risk analysis for every MCP server we've found on the internet: https://mcp.armor1.ai/mcp-directory We all love agents and the power that MCPs unlock: suddenly your AI assistant can query databases, manage files, call APIs, and interact with the real world. But when we started adopting MCPs ourselves, we kept running into the same nagging questions: Is this MCP safe? Where is my data actually going? Could it execute destructive actions? Is it…

    Feb 2026 · mcp.armor1.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, We are the devs behind VibeShift. We have been building this MCP server to put AI coding assistants in an automatic feedback loop. They code, test, debug, fix everything until we have a fully working, secure code. It tests like a real user, copies network/console and logical errors to give them back to cursor. (1 min demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN_RgQGa8B0) We felt this was the natural next step for AI coding assistants. And with new asynchronous assistants like codex, having a plug & play tester makes sure you don't have to spend time debugging and…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    MCP360▲61

    Hey HN Community, I built MCP360 after spending weeks integrating APIs for an AI agent project. Each tool needed its own setup, auth, billing, and maintenance. When any APIs changed, my integrations broke. I got tired of it. MCP360 is a single gateway giving AI agents access to 100+ tools through one config block. Search engines, web scraping, SEO, e-commerce data, maps, domain tools, and more. Real example: Instead of managing Google Search, web scraping, SERP tracking, and keyword research as 4 separate subscriptions (4 bills, 4 auth systems, 4 points of failure), you connect once. Works…

    2025 · mcp360.ai · its alternatives →

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    MCPBind▲12

    Enterprise security for every MCP server

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! We kept seeing devs get pwned through MCP tools in ways that security scanners completely miss. So we built an open-source analyzer to catch these attacks. Our first OSS by Mighty team. The problem: At Defcon, we saw MCP exploits with 100% success rate against Claude and Llama. Three attack patterns: Hidden Unicode in "error messages" - Paste a colleague's error into Claude, your SSH keys get exfiltrated Trusted tool updates - That database tool you've used for months? Last week's update added credential theft Tool redefinition - Malicious tool redefines "deploy to prod" to run…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Global search engine for model context protocol tools

    2025 · mcpagentseek.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I’m Gui from deco (decocms.com). We’ve been using this tool internally as the foundation for a few customer AI platforms, and today we’re open-sourcing it as MCP Mesh. MCP is quickly becoming the standard for agentic systems, but… once you go past a couple servers it turns into the same problems for every team: - M×N config sprawl (every client wired to every server, each with its own JSON + ports + retries) - Token + tool bloat (dumping tool definitions into every prompt doesn’t scale) - Credentials + blast radius (tokens scattered across clients, hard to audit, hard to revoke) - No…

    Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN, we're Andrew and Stephen from Keyboard (https://www.keyboard.dev/). After building AI tools for the past year, we recently made a YouTube video on building MCP servers and realized MCP is a total game-changer. It essentially lets AI do anything by connecting to your apps. But the deeper we dove, the clearer it became that security and privacy were complete afterthoughts. Coming from backgrounds at Okta and Stripe, this made us pretty uncomfortable. We kept seeing the same pattern: every app needs its own MCP server, each storing sensitive tokens, with minimal…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Automate browser based workflows with AI. Contribute to Skyvern-AI/skyvern development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    You can read more about EQTY Lab's enterprise-focused usage of this tooling here: https://www.eqtylab.io/blog/securing-model-context-protocol

    Dec 2025 · guardianmcp.dev · its alternatives →

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    Your tools, bundled for AI

    Dec 2025 · mcpbundles.com · its alternatives →

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