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24 alternatives to getmcpauth: OAuth 2.1 for MCP servers

Hosted OAuth 2.1 + DCR for MCP servers

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 3 we have checked on their own sites, 3 of them free or with a free tier.

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   Permit MCP Gateway▲134

   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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   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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   Secure MCP Framework by Arcade.dev▲272

   Skip migration and launch MCP with built-in Auth

   Nov 2025 · arcade.dev · 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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   Mcptunnels – ngrok for MCP with basic OAuth▲15

   Give a local MCP server a public URL with one command. No accounts, no signup — anonymous, ephemeral, OAuth 2.1-protected tunnels for MCP servers.

   Sep 2026 · terragohan.github.io · its alternatives →

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   API to MCP▲195

   Turn any API into an MCP server for AI agents

   Jun 2026 · apitomcp.ai · 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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   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-Billing▲112

   Self-hosted Next.js 15 boilerplate: OAuth 2.1 + PKCE, API key management, Stripe usage-based billing with explicit metering decisions, Redis rate limiting. 300 tests. No revenue share. https://mcp-billing.com

   Jul 2026 · mcp-billing.com · its alternatives →

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    A MCP server and client implementing the latest spec▲72

    A comprehensive Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementing the latest specification. - hemanth/paws-on-mcp

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Is Your MCP Ready?▲10

    Scan any MCP server against emerging agent-readiness standards. A score across five dimensions plus a copy-paste fix for every gap. Free, no sign-up.

    Jun 2026 · isyourmcpready.com · its alternatives →

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    AuthPlane – OAuth 2.1 and PKCE authorization server for MCP▲7

    OAuth 2.1 Authorization Server for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) - AuthPlane/authserver

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    HyprMCP – Analytics, logs and auth for MCP servers▲59

    Hi HN, my name is Philip, I’m the co-founder of Glasskube and one of the creators of HyprMCP. This project started when we did what everyone was doing — building a remote MCP server and launching it. Building the first local MCP server for testing was quite simple, and we had our first tools ready within a day. The next step was turning that into a production-ready remote MCP server. As we exposed the MCP server to our users, we wanted to authenticate them with our existing authentication methods. We dove deep into authentication. Our approach was to build an auth proxy and plug it in front…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    HasMCPfree tier▲6

    No-code GUI MCP Server Framework with built-in Auth & Logs

    Jan 2026 · hasmcp.com · its alternatives →

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    MCP Security Suite▲36

    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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    doc2mcp▲18

    Paste a docs URL, get a hosted MCP server for AI agents

    Jun 2026 · doc2mcp.site · its alternatives →

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    MCP Web Host▲3

    Hey folks! I just launched https://mcphost.link/ a web-based MCP host that lets you connect to multiple remote MCP servers and interact with them through a simple chat interface. Key Features Multi-server support: connect to several MCP servers at once OAuth 2.0 & Bearer Token auth (with PKCE) Persistent sessions: servers + credentials saved locally Full MCP features: tools, resources, prompts LLM support: bring your own inference backend The goal is to make exploring and working with the Model Context Protocol much more approachable. Happy to answer questions, take feedback,…

    Dec 2025 · mcphost.link · its alternatives →

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    I rawdog a MCP server from scratch in Zig. No SDK▲15

    Some time ago I wanted to write a MCP server in Zig but found out there's no real JSON-RPC support in Zig, which MCP needs for communication. I ended up developing a JSON-RPC 2.0 library in Zig and more [1], which had its challenges. So I finally was able to put together a MCP server in Zig. It's built from scratch implementing the protocol messages from the MCP JSON schema. It's actually quite magical to have the LLM calling my MCP server [2]. The work is not too bad. Most of the hard work has already been done in the JSON-RPC library. [1]…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    MCP Server for OpenTelemetry▲13

    Hey HN, Gal, Nir and Doron here. Over the past 2 years, we've helped teams debug everything from prompt issues to production outages. We kept running into the same problem: Jumping between our IDEs and our observability dashboards. So, we built an open-source MCP server that connects any OpenTelemetry backend (Grafana, Jaeger, Datadog, Dynatrace, Traceloop) to our dev environment using an MCP. While there are many MCP servers built for specific providers (like Datadog’s - https://docs.datadoghq.com/bits_ai/mcp_server), they’re closed source (so we can’t easily extend…

    Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    MCP-123, a 2-line MCP server/client (Windows-friendly)▲14

    Got tired of every MCP example being overly verbose, or needing Docker or Mac-only scripts, so I threw together MCP-123. Point it at a tools.py, run `server.run_server(...)`, and the client auto-discovers/calls functions with OpenAI. I hope this is useful to you all.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    MCP Generator for Your API▲17

    Hey HN, Sagiv from liblab is here. We've been deep in the world of API tooling for years at liblab, primarily focusing on generating SDKs and documentation from OpenAPI specs. Recently, we kept running into a recurring frustration: connecting AI tools to existing APIs is way more complex than it should be. You start with a simple goal – let an LLM talk to your API – and suddenly you're neck-deep in spinning up infrastructure, wrestling with authentication, and writing a ton of custom glue code just to translate natural language into structured API calls. Then you have to maintain it all. To…

    2025 · mcp.liblab.com · its alternatives →

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    SpecToMCP▲19

    Generate MCP servers from OpenAPI specification files

    2025 · spectomcp.updab.com · its alternatives →

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    Truelist MCP▲14

    Email validation for AI agents — hosted MCP, no keys

    Sep 2026 · truelist.io · its alternatives →

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    Blueprint MCP▲9

    Hi HN, I wrote a book on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) – the open standard from Anthropic that lets AI agents connect to external tools and data sources. I'm an RPA/automation practitioner (CEO of Niuexa, LinkedIn Learning instructor) and I noticed there was no comprehensive resource covering MCP architecture, security patterns, and enterprise deployment strategy. So I wrote one. The book covers: - MCP architecture deep dive (servers, clients, hosts, transport layers) - 20-point security checklist for MCP deployments - EU AI Act compliance for agentic systems - Real-world breach…

    Nov 2025 · blueprint-mcp.railsblueprint.com · its alternatives →

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