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24 alternatives to MCP Index

Metorial MCP Index - An ever growing list of open source MCP servers 📁 🎉 - metorial/metorial-index

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 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

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    Hey HN! We're Wen and Tobias, and we're building Metorial (https://metorial.com), an integration platform that connects AI agents to external tools and data using MCP. The Problem: While MCP works great locally (e.g., Cursor or Claude Desktop), server-side deployments are painful. Running MCP servers means managing Docker configs, per-user OAuth flows, scaling concurrent sessions, and building observability from scratch. This infrastructure work turns simple integrations into weeks of setup. Metorial handles all of this automatically. We maintain an open catalog of ~600 MCP servers…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    600+ integrations for vibe coding, zero config required

    Nov 2025 · metorial.com · 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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    Instantly create & deploy MCP servers from any API spec

    2025 · mcp.ag2.ai · 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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    Give AI agents access to real-time data across 200+ apps

    May 2026 · apideck.com · its alternatives →

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    Global APIs as MCP powered by AI Gateway

    2025 · mcp.higress.ai · its alternatives →

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    An index for agents pushing the frontier of AI/ML research

    Jun 2026 · docs.firecrawl.dev · its alternatives →

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    MCPTotal▲179

    Secure MCP servers that just work

    Dec 2025 · a16y.ai · its alternatives →

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    Connect any AI model to 1200+ integrations (MCP, CLI, API) - metorial/metorial

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey all - I work at Vantage, a FinOps platform. I know AI is peak hype right now. But it has definitely changed some of our dev workflows already. So we wanted to find a way to let our customers experiment with how they can use AI to make their cloud cost management work more productive. The MCP Server acts as a connector between LLMs (right now only Claude, Cursor support it but ChatGPT and Google Gemini coming soon) and your cost and usage data on Vantage which supports 20+ cloud infra providers including AWS, Datadog, Mongo, etc. (You have to have a Vantage account to use it since it's…

    2025 · 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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    The world's largest API directory, now in your AI toolkit

    2025 · openapidirectory.com · its alternatives →

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    The largest directory of MCP servers for AI assistants

    Feb 2026 · mcp-directory-pi.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    AI Agents Listing is a curated directory for the agentic ecosystem. It helps you discover AI agents, MCP servers, and drop-in agent skills, ranking them by real engagement rather than ads. You can browse popular categories, view leaderboards, and submit your own tools to get disc

    Sep 2026 · aiagentslisting.com · its alternatives →

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    MCP Marketplace | Discover Top MCP Servers

    2025 · mcpmarket.com · its alternatives →

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    The MCP server directory — 166+ servers, one place

    Feb 2026 · its alternatives →

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    Global search engine for model context protocol tools

    2025 · mcpagentseek.com · 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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    One MCP▲13

    Hey HN, I’ve been experimenting with how LLMs can dynamically use large sets of tools without needing to preload them all into context - and built one-mcp to explore that idea. one-mcp is an open source MCP server built with FastAPI that acts as a semantic index + dynamic loader for API tools. Instead of hardcoding or embedding every tool spec in an LLM session (which quickly blows up context size and costs), one-mcp lets the model search, load, and execute tools on demand — using embeddings and natural language queries. What it does: - Semantic Search for Tools: Query your API catalog with…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    6,500+ agents and MCPs, priced, probed and reviewed daily.

    Jul 2026 · agentery.com · its alternatives →

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    MCP Server

    2025 · mcprepository.com · its alternatives →

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    Thousands of MCP servers with proper documentation

    Jan 2026 · publicmcpregistry.com · its alternatives →

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    I’ve been building and using agents heavily lately. The Model Context Protocol ecosystem is growing insanely fast, but discovering and configuring new tools is still highly manual. Every time I needed to connect an agent to a new service, I had to browse registries, figure out the transport type, identify required env vars, and manually update "mcp.json" files. So I built MCPfinder. It aggregates servers from the official MCP registry, Glama, and Smithery (around 25,000 combined entries) into a deduplicated, ranked catalog. But the real twist is the DX: MCPfinder is itself an MCP server :D…

    Apr 2026 · mcpfinder.dev · its alternatives →

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