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24 alternatives to MCPVault

5,000+ MCP servers with quality grades and live testing.

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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    MCP Playground is a Postman-style tool for MCP — inspect servers, execute tools live, test your client, all from the browser. Four things in one place: 1. Free hosted MCP servers — four public test servers anyone can point their client at: Echo (connectivity), Auth (Bearer token flow), Error (error handling), Complex (multi-tool schemas).No sign-up, just use the URL. 2. Server inspector — paste any remote MCP server URL, see all its tools/resources/prompts, execute them live, inspect the full JSON-RPC log. HTTP, SSE, and WebSocket all supported. 3. Registry — 10,000+ servers…

    Nov 2025 · mcpplayground.io · its alternatives →

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    NitroStackfree tier, from $30/mo▲240

    Build, test, and deploy MCP servers in one place

    13d ago · nitrostack.ai · 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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    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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    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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    Lighthouse for MCP — score any MCP server 0–100. Contribute to mcp-box/mcpscore development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    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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    Hi HN, I've been building MCPSpec, an open-source CLI for MCP server reliability. Record sessions, generate mock servers, catch Tool Poisoning, and fail your CI build when something's wrong — without writing test code. There are ways to validate MCP servers today — the MCP Inspector, ad-hoc SDK scripts, unit tests for server internals — but nothing that handles regression detection, security auditing, mock generation, and CI pass/fail checks in one tool. MCPSpec does that: 1. Record a session against your real server, replay it after changes to catch regressions 2. Generate a standalone…

    Feb 2026 · light-handle.github.io · its alternatives →

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    FloMCP▲63

    Ship MCP servers with 32 security checks in under 5 minutes

    Apr 2026 · flomcp.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey everyone, I've wanted an easy way to control which mcp server tools are available to clients. So for example, I might want a gmail server to only expose the read tool (but not send, delete etc). I figured if I create a cli for spawning mcp servers, I could intercept the stdin, stdout, stderr etc and modify what the clients see when they are making calls to list tools, resources, and prompts. Well it worked! In the initial version you can easily add a server to claude with a safe list of tools: npx -y mcpgod add @modelcontextprotocol/server-everything --client claude --tools=echo,add…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    MCPHub▲8

    AI-native launchpad for MCP servers

    Sep 2026 · mcphub.space · its alternatives →

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    Quality-scored MCP servers with one-click install configs

    Mar 2026 · serverhub.digital · its alternatives →

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    MCP Server

    2025 · mcprepository.com · its alternatives →

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    0mcp▲20

    Ship MCP Server for your SaaS without engineering overhead

    Aug 2026 · 0mcp.io · its alternatives →

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    We've been scanning MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers to understand the security posture of the ecosystem. After 306 servers and 1,211 vulnerabilities, here's what we found: - 69 critical vulnerabilities - 32 servers using eval() on untrusted input - 31 SQL injection vulnerabilities - 32 servers with hardcoded API credentials 10.5% of servers have at least one critical vulnerability. MCP servers run with your permissions. AI agents trust them implicitly. A prompt injection can exploit them remotely. MCPSafe (https://mcpsafe.org) lets you scan before you connect. Free tier…

    Feb 2026 · mcpsafe.org · its alternatives →

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    Chrome web store

    2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    On-chain-verified trade calls for AI agents

    Jun 2026 · algovault.com · its alternatives →

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    Inspect any remote MCP server — quality, cost, and security

    Aug 2026 · ytkoka.github.io · its alternatives →

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    A visual debugger and test client for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Debug, test tools, and inspect JSON-RPC traffic in real time.

    Jan 2026 · mcp-workbench.ai · its alternatives →

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    Create MCP Server Creation Made Simple

    2025 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →

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    Uptime, installs and code checks for 25,000 MCP servers

    Aug 2026 · mcpbeat.com · its alternatives →

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    You built an MCP server. Does anyone know it exists?

    Jun 2026 · agent-tool-intel-production.up.railway.app · its alternatives →

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    Search, evaluate & configure any MCP server inside your IDE

    Apr 2026 · stork.ai · its alternatives →

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    Vellum▲18

    Self-hosted MCP server over a folder of markdown

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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