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MCP directories
Where to find Model Context Protocol servers — the connectors that give Claude access to tools and data.
- Glama MCP directoryglama.ai · checked August 16, 2026
Indexed MCP servers with per-server security, licence and quality scoring, plus a hosted gateway.
About 72,000 servers listed on the index
Use this when you want the widest possible net and are willing to filter yourself. Breadth is the point here; maintenance status and security posture are not surfaced, so treat every result as unvetted until you check the repository.
- mcp.somcp.so · checked August 16, 2026
Broad open catalogue of MCP servers and clients, searchable by tag and use case.
Tens of thousands of listings; no official count published
Use this when you are browsing rather than hunting — the categorisation is easier to skim than a raw index, which makes it a better starting point if you do not yet know what you are looking for.
- PulseMCPpulsemcp.com · checked August 16, 2026
Curated MCP server and client listings with a weekly newsletter and use-case write-ups.
Several thousand servers; no official count published
Use this when you want to keep up rather than look something up. It is closer to curated than exhaustive, and the newsletter is the part most people actually come back for.
- Smitherysmithery.ai · checked August 16, 2026
Registry plus hosting and one-command install of MCP servers into clients.
Around 700 MCPs and skills on the index
Use this when you want to run a server without hosting it yourself. The index is the smallest of the four majors, but it is the one that gets you from browsing to running in the fewest steps.
- Model Context Protocol reference serversgithub.com · checked August 16, 2026
The protocol maintainers' own reference and community server list.
About 90,000 GitHub stars
Use this when you want the reference implementations rather than the community's. These are the servers the protocol authors maintain, which makes them the right place to learn how an MCP server is supposed to be built — and the wrong place to look for the long tail.
- awesome-mcp-serversgithub.com · checked August 16, 2026
Community-maintained index of MCP servers grouped by category.
About 92,000 GitHub stars
Use this when you want a human-curated list instead of an index. Someone decided what goes in, which is exactly the filter the large directories lack — and exactly the bottleneck when a list falls behind.
Last checked August 16, 2026.