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
✅ RecommendedAPI 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.
AWS MCP Servers
✅ RecommendedOfficial AWS suite of 20+ specialized MCP servers — from core API access to CDK, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, S3, Bedrock, and more.
Azure MCP Server
✅ RecommendedOfficial Microsoft server — 40+ Azure services in one MCP integration with Entra ID auth and RBAC-based permissions. GA status.
Brave Search MCP Server
✅ RecommendedGives 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.
Browserbase MCP Server
⚠️ ConditionalCloud browser automation with Stagehand AI SDK — stealth mode, anti-bot bypass, and session persistence for complex interactive workflows.
Cloudflare MCP Servers
✅ RecommendedOfficial Cloudflare catalog of managed remote MCP servers — Workers, KV, R2, D1, DNS, CDN, and security management through OAuth with zero local install.
Context7 MCP Server
✅ RecommendedInjects up-to-date, version-specific library documentation directly into LLM prompts — solves the hallucinated API problem.
Crawl4AI MCP Server
❌ SkipOpen-source LLM-friendly web crawler with MCP support via Docker — the self-hosted alternative to Firecrawl.
Desktop Commander MCP
✅ RecommendedSwiss-army-knife MCP server — terminal commands, filesystem operations, diff editing, in-memory code execution, Excel/PDF support, and fuzzy search.
Docker MCP (mcp_docker)
⚠️ ConditionalManage Docker containers, images, networks, and volumes through natural language — the best community server for container operations.
Exa MCP Server
✅ RecommendedSemantic search engine for AI — finds content by meaning, not keywords, with deep research, code context, company lookup, and web crawling tools.
Fetch MCP
✅ RecommendedFetches web pages and converts HTML to markdown so Claude can read website content in conversation.
Filesystem MCP
✅ RecommendedRead, write, and manage files on your local machine through AI.
Firecrawl MCP Server
✅ RecommendedOfficial Firecrawl server for AI-powered web scraping, crawling, and structured data extraction — turns websites into clean, LLM-ready content.
Git MCP Server
✅ RecommendedAnthropic's reference server for local Git operations — read files, search commits, view diffs, and inspect history without API keys.
GitHub MCP Server
✅ RecommendedConnects Claude to GitHub's API — browse repos, manage issues and PRs, monitor Actions workflows, and analyze code security findings through natural language.
GitLab MCP Server
✅ RecommendedThree integration paths — GitLab's built-in MCP (18.6+), Anthropic's reference server, and feature-rich community options with 60+ tools.
Google Drive MCP (mcp-gdrive)
⚠️ ConditionalCommunity server for searching and reading Google Drive files — the most referenced option in a fragmented ecosystem awaiting Google's official remote MCP.
Google Workspace MCP Server
⚠️ ConditionalCommunity-built integration covering Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, and 6 more Google services — 100+ tools with OAuth 2.1.
GPT Researcher MCP Server
❌ SkipAutonomous deep research agent that produces comprehensive reports with citations — multi-step web research with a STORM-inspired architecture.
Grafana MCP Server
⚠️ ConditionalOfficial Grafana server for searching dashboards, running PromQL and LogQL queries, managing OnCall, and working with Tempo traces — all from your AI client.
Heroku MCP Server
✅ RecommendedOfficial dual-mode server — CLI-native local REPL or remote OAuth. Deploy, scale, monitor apps, manage Postgres and Redis add-ons, run one-off dynos.
Jira MCP Server (Atlassian)
⚠️ ConditionalOfficial 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.
Linear MCP Server
✅ RecommendedOfficial Linear server for finding, creating, and updating issues, projects, and comments — remote-first with OAuth 2.1 authorization.
MCP Reference Servers
✅ RecommendedThe official maintained reference implementations — Filesystem, Git, Memory, Sequential Thinking, Fetch, and Time. The starting point for every MCP setup.
Memory MCP
⚠️ ConditionalPersistent knowledge graph that lets Claude remember entities, relations, and observations across conversations.
Microsoft 365 MCP Server
⚠️ ConditionalFragmented landscape — Microsoft's official Agent 365 requires Copilot license, while community servers offer Graph API integration for Mail, Calendar, Teams, and Files.
MongoDB MCP Server
✅ RecommendedOfficial MongoDB server for querying, inserting, aggregating, and managing both local MongoDB instances and Atlas cloud clusters — including creating free clusters from Claude.
MySQL MCP Server
⚠️ ConditionalCommunity-built MySQL integration with SSH tunnel support and safety-first read-only defaults — the best option in a fragmented landscape.
Neon MCP Server
✅ RecommendedOfficial Neon server for managing serverless Postgres — branch-based migrations, query tuning, and project management through natural language.
Notion MCP Server
✅ RecommendedOfficial Notion server for reading and writing pages, databases, comments, and searching across workspaces — with a remote OAuth option that skips token management entirely.
Obsidian MCP (mcp-obsidian)
⚠️ ConditionalCommunity server that connects Claude to local Obsidian vaults — search, read, and modify notes through the Obsidian REST API plugin.
Perplexity MCP Server
✅ RecommendedOfficial Perplexity AI server with four specialized tools — web search, conversational AI, deep research, and advanced reasoning with citations.
PlanetScale MCP Server
⚠️ ConditionalOfficial serverless MySQL-compatible database integration with auto-config CLI installer and hosted OAuth remote server.
Playwright MCP Server
✅ RecommendedMicrosoft's official browser automation server — lets Claude control web browsers through accessibility snapshots, not screenshots.
Postgres MCP Pro
✅ RecommendedGoes beyond SQL execution — provides index tuning with industrial-strength algorithms, database health checks, explain plans, and configurable read/write access control for PostgreSQL.
Postman MCP Server
✅ RecommendedOfficial remote and local MCP server — API testing, collection management, code generation, and the MCP Generator for 100K+ public APIs.
Prisma MCP Server
✅ RecommendedOfficial dual-mode MCP — local CLI for development workflows and remote server for Prisma Postgres infrastructure management.
Puppeteer MCP Server
❌ SkipAnthropic's reference browser automation server — functional but archived. Playwright MCP is the maintained alternative.
Redis MCP Server
⚠️ ConditionalOfficial Redis server for key-value operations, hash/list/set/sorted-set manipulation, pub/sub messaging, streams, and vector embedding storage.
Sentry MCP Server
⚠️ ConditionalOfficial Sentry server for searching issues, events, and errors — includes AI-powered fix recommendations via Sentry's Seer integration.
Sequential Thinking MCP
⚠️ ConditionalStructured reasoning scratchpad that lets Claude break complex problems into numbered, revisable thought steps.
shadcn/ui MCP Server
✅ RecommendedOfficial shadcn CLI-integrated server for browsing, searching, and installing UI components from shadcn registries via natural language.
Slack MCP Server
⚠️ ConditionalLets Claude interact with Slack workspaces — list channels, read message history, post messages, reply to threads, add reactions, and look up user profiles.
SQLite MCP
⚠️ ConditionalLets Claude run SQL queries against a SQLite database file, create tables, and generate business insight memos from query results.
Stripe MCP Server
✅ RecommendedOfficial Stripe server for managing customers, products, payments, subscriptions, and invoices — with permission-scoped tools via Restricted API Keys.
Supabase MCP Server
✅ RecommendedOfficial Supabase server for managing tables, running SQL, handling migrations, edge functions, and project configuration through natural language.
Tavily MCP Server
✅ RecommendedAI-optimized search engine with extract, map, and crawl tools — returns results designed for LLM consumption, not human browsing.
Terraform MCP Server
✅ RecommendedOfficial HashiCorp server for Terraform Registry discovery, provider documentation, and HCP Terraform workspace management with destructive-ops gating.
Turso MCP Server
⚠️ ConditionalSQLite-compatible edge database with MCP built directly into the Turso CLI — plus community options for cloud-hosted LibSQL.
Vercel MCP Server
✅ RecommendedOfficial remote MCP server with OAuth — access logs, project metadata, deployments, and Vercel documentation without local installation.