All MCP Server Reviews

51 servers tested and reviewed. Every listing includes honest pros and cons, client compatibility data, and working config you can paste.

Anthropic MCP Connector

✅ Recommended

API feature that connects Claude to any remote MCP server without writing client code — add a URL to your API request and Anthropic handles the rest.

N/A Setup: Moderate protocol

AWS MCP Servers

✅ Recommended

Official AWS suite of 20+ specialized MCP servers — from core API access to CDK, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, S3, Bedrock, and more.

Python Setup: Advanced cloud

Azure MCP Server

✅ Recommended

Official Microsoft server — 40+ Azure services in one MCP integration with Entra ID auth and RBAC-based permissions. GA status.

TypeScript Setup: Moderate cloud

Brave Search MCP Server

✅ Recommended

Gives Claude access to Brave's web search, local business search, image search, video search, news search, and AI-powered summarization — all through one API key.

TypeScript Setup: Moderate search

Browserbase MCP Server

⚠️ Conditional

Cloud browser automation with Stagehand AI SDK — stealth mode, anti-bot bypass, and session persistence for complex interactive workflows.

TypeScript Setup: Advanced browser-automation

Cloudflare MCP Servers

✅ Recommended

Official Cloudflare catalog of managed remote MCP servers — Workers, KV, R2, D1, DNS, CDN, and security management through OAuth with zero local install.

TypeScript Setup: Moderate cloud

Context7 MCP Server

✅ Recommended

Injects up-to-date, version-specific library documentation directly into LLM prompts — solves the hallucinated API problem.

TypeScript Setup: Easy search

Crawl4AI MCP Server

❌ Skip

Open-source LLM-friendly web crawler with MCP support via Docker — the self-hosted alternative to Firecrawl.

Python Setup: Advanced scraping

Desktop Commander MCP

✅ Recommended

Swiss-army-knife MCP server — terminal commands, filesystem operations, diff editing, in-memory code execution, Excel/PDF support, and fuzzy search.

TypeScript Setup: Easy terminal

Docker MCP (mcp_docker)

⚠️ Conditional

Manage Docker containers, images, networks, and volumes through natural language — the best community server for container operations.

Python Setup: Moderate devops

Exa MCP Server

✅ Recommended

Semantic search engine for AI — finds content by meaning, not keywords, with deep research, code context, company lookup, and web crawling tools.

TypeScript Setup: Moderate search

Fetch MCP

✅ Recommended

Fetches web pages and converts HTML to markdown so Claude can read website content in conversation.

Python Setup: Easy local-tools

Filesystem MCP

✅ Recommended

Read, write, and manage files on your local machine through AI.

TypeScript Setup: Easy file-system

Firecrawl MCP Server

✅ Recommended

Official Firecrawl server for AI-powered web scraping, crawling, and structured data extraction — turns websites into clean, LLM-ready content.

TypeScript Setup: Moderate web-scraping

Git MCP Server

✅ Recommended

Anthropic's reference server for local Git operations — read files, search commits, view diffs, and inspect history without API keys.

TypeScript Setup: Easy coding

GitHub MCP Server

✅ Recommended

Connects Claude to GitHub's API — browse repos, manage issues and PRs, monitor Actions workflows, and analyze code security findings through natural language.

Go Setup: Moderate devops

GitLab MCP Server

✅ Recommended

Three integration paths — GitLab's built-in MCP (18.6+), Anthropic's reference server, and feature-rich community options with 60+ tools.

Ruby Setup: Easy coding

Google Drive MCP (mcp-gdrive)

⚠️ Conditional

Community server for searching and reading Google Drive files — the most referenced option in a fragmented ecosystem awaiting Google's official remote MCP.

TypeScript Setup: Advanced productivity

Google Workspace MCP Server

⚠️ Conditional

Community-built integration covering Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, and 6 more Google services — 100+ tools with OAuth 2.1.

Python Setup: Advanced productivity

GPT Researcher MCP Server

❌ Skip

Autonomous deep research agent that produces comprehensive reports with citations — multi-step web research with a STORM-inspired architecture.

Python Setup: Advanced research

Grafana MCP Server

⚠️ Conditional

Official Grafana server for searching dashboards, running PromQL and LogQL queries, managing OnCall, and working with Tempo traces — all from your AI client.

Go Setup: Advanced devops

Heroku MCP Server

✅ Recommended

Official dual-mode server — CLI-native local REPL or remote OAuth. Deploy, scale, monitor apps, manage Postgres and Redis add-ons, run one-off dynos.

TypeScript Setup: Moderate deployment

Jira MCP Server (Atlassian)

⚠️ Conditional

Official Atlassian remote server covering Jira, Confluence, and Compass — OAuth 2.1 authorization with admin-controllable access, plus a strong community alternative for Server/Data Center.

TypeScript Setup: Moderate productivity

Linear MCP Server

✅ Recommended

Official Linear server for finding, creating, and updating issues, projects, and comments — remote-first with OAuth 2.1 authorization.

TypeScript Setup: Easy productivity

MCP Reference Servers

✅ Recommended

The official maintained reference implementations — Filesystem, Git, Memory, Sequential Thinking, Fetch, and Time. The starting point for every MCP setup.

TypeScript Setup: Easy protocol

Memory MCP

⚠️ Conditional

Persistent knowledge graph that lets Claude remember entities, relations, and observations across conversations.

TypeScript Setup: Easy local-tools

Microsoft 365 MCP Server

⚠️ Conditional

Fragmented landscape — Microsoft's official Agent 365 requires Copilot license, while community servers offer Graph API integration for Mail, Calendar, Teams, and Files.

TypeScript Setup: Advanced productivity

MongoDB MCP Server

✅ Recommended

Official MongoDB server for querying, inserting, aggregating, and managing both local MongoDB instances and Atlas cloud clusters — including creating free clusters from Claude.

TypeScript Setup: Moderate database

MySQL MCP Server

⚠️ Conditional

Community-built MySQL integration with SSH tunnel support and safety-first read-only defaults — the best option in a fragmented landscape.

TypeScript Setup: Moderate database

Neon MCP Server

✅ Recommended

Official Neon server for managing serverless Postgres — branch-based migrations, query tuning, and project management through natural language.

TypeScript Setup: Easy database

Notion MCP Server

✅ Recommended

Official Notion server for reading and writing pages, databases, comments, and searching across workspaces — with a remote OAuth option that skips token management entirely.

TypeScript Setup: Moderate productivity

Obsidian MCP (mcp-obsidian)

⚠️ Conditional

Community server that connects Claude to local Obsidian vaults — search, read, and modify notes through the Obsidian REST API plugin.

Python Setup: Advanced productivity

Perplexity MCP Server

✅ Recommended

Official Perplexity AI server with four specialized tools — web search, conversational AI, deep research, and advanced reasoning with citations.

TypeScript Setup: Moderate search

PlanetScale MCP Server

⚠️ Conditional

Official serverless MySQL-compatible database integration with auto-config CLI installer and hosted OAuth remote server.

TypeScript Setup: Moderate database

Playwright MCP Server

✅ Recommended

Microsoft's official browser automation server — lets Claude control web browsers through accessibility snapshots, not screenshots.

TypeScript Setup: Easy web-scraping

Postgres MCP Pro

✅ Recommended

Goes beyond SQL execution — provides index tuning with industrial-strength algorithms, database health checks, explain plans, and configurable read/write access control for PostgreSQL.

Python Setup: Advanced database

Postman MCP Server

✅ Recommended

Official remote and local MCP server — API testing, collection management, code generation, and the MCP Generator for 100K+ public APIs.

TypeScript Setup: Easy api-testing

Prisma MCP Server

✅ Recommended

Official dual-mode MCP — local CLI for development workflows and remote server for Prisma Postgres infrastructure management.

TypeScript Setup: Easy database

Puppeteer MCP Server

❌ Skip

Anthropic's reference browser automation server — functional but archived. Playwright MCP is the maintained alternative.

TypeScript Setup: Moderate browser-automation

Redis MCP Server

⚠️ Conditional

Official Redis server for key-value operations, hash/list/set/sorted-set manipulation, pub/sub messaging, streams, and vector embedding storage.

Python Setup: Advanced database

Sentry MCP Server

⚠️ Conditional

Official Sentry server for searching issues, events, and errors — includes AI-powered fix recommendations via Sentry's Seer integration.

TypeScript Setup: Moderate devops

Sequential Thinking MCP

⚠️ Conditional

Structured reasoning scratchpad that lets Claude break complex problems into numbered, revisable thought steps.

TypeScript Setup: Easy local-tools

shadcn/ui MCP Server

✅ Recommended

Official shadcn CLI-integrated server for browsing, searching, and installing UI components from shadcn registries via natural language.

TypeScript Setup: Easy coding

Slack MCP Server

⚠️ Conditional

Lets Claude interact with Slack workspaces — list channels, read message history, post messages, reply to threads, add reactions, and look up user profiles.

TypeScript Setup: Advanced communication

SQLite MCP

⚠️ Conditional

Lets Claude run SQL queries against a SQLite database file, create tables, and generate business insight memos from query results.

Python Setup: Moderate databases

Stripe MCP Server

✅ Recommended

Official Stripe server for managing customers, products, payments, subscriptions, and invoices — with permission-scoped tools via Restricted API Keys.

TypeScript Setup: Moderate coding

Supabase MCP Server

✅ Recommended

Official Supabase server for managing tables, running SQL, handling migrations, edge functions, and project configuration through natural language.

TypeScript Setup: Moderate database

Tavily MCP Server

✅ Recommended

AI-optimized search engine with extract, map, and crawl tools — returns results designed for LLM consumption, not human browsing.

TypeScript Setup: Moderate search

Terraform MCP Server

✅ Recommended

Official HashiCorp server for Terraform Registry discovery, provider documentation, and HCP Terraform workspace management with destructive-ops gating.

Go Setup: Moderate infrastructure

Turso MCP Server

⚠️ Conditional

SQLite-compatible edge database with MCP built directly into the Turso CLI — plus community options for cloud-hosted LibSQL.

Rust Setup: Moderate database

Vercel MCP Server

✅ Recommended

Official remote MCP server with OAuth — access logs, project metadata, deployments, and Vercel documentation without local installation.

TypeScript Setup: Easy deployment