Official MCP servers by category (Oct 2026): 38 vendor-maintained servers

Published 2026-10-18

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets an AI assistant or agent use outside tools: query a database, search the web, read files or manage cloud resources. There are now thousands of MCP servers, and many are hobby projects. If you want something that the vendor itself maintains, start with the official servers. This list shows official MCP servers grouped by what they do.

The data comes from the open-source awesome-mcp-servers list (MIT licence), in a snapshot taken 17 Oct 2026. It has 4,259 servers, and 409 of them are flagged as official, meaning they are published by the company that owns the product. The descriptions are the authors' own one-liners. I have not tested these servers, so read the repo and its permissions before you connect one to real data.

The biggest categories

Across all 4,259 servers, the largest categories are Developer Tools (520), Finance & Fintech (445), Knowledge & Memory (339), Search & Data Extraction (252), Security (246).

Cloud platforms

• cloudflare/mcp-server-cloudflare: Integration with Cloudflare services including Workers, KV, R2 and D1.
• awslabs/mcp: Suite of servers for integrating with AWS services and resources.
• hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server: Terraform ecosystem integration: provider discovery, module analysis and Terraform Registry API access for infrastructure-as-code workflows.
• microsoft/mcp: Access Azure services including Storage, Cosmos DB and Azure Monitor.
• aliyun/alibaba-cloud-ops-mcp-server: Operate Alibaba Cloud resources, including ECS, Cloud Monitor, OOS and other widely used cloud products.
• backblaze-labs/b2-mcp: Manage Backblaze B2 buckets, files, keys, Object Lock and S3-compatible storage.

Databases and vector stores

• supabase-community/supabase-mcp: Connect to your Supabase project to manage tables, fetch config and query data.
• chroma-core/chroma-mcp: Access local and cloud Chroma instances for retrieval.
• Aiven-Open/mcp-aiven: Navigate Aiven projects and interact with PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, ClickHouse and OpenSearch services.
• appwrite/mcp: Manage Appwrite databases, auth, users, functions, storage, messaging and more.
• InfluxData/influxdb3_mcp_server: Interact with InfluxDB 3 Core, Enterprise and Cloud Dedicated.
• Couchbase-Ecosystem/mcp-server-couchbase: Unified access to Couchbase Capella and self-managed clusters for document operations, SQL++ queries and natural-language data analysis.

Web search, scraping and browsers

• exa-labs/exa-mcp-server: Real-time web search using the Exa AI Search API.
• firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server: Firecrawl web scraping: search, scrape, crawl, map and extract structured data, with live browser interaction and website change monitoring.
• browserless/browserless-mcp: Headless browser automation and web scraping via the Browserless smart scraper API.
• Dumpling-AI/mcp-server-dumplingai: Access Dumpling AI's data, web scraping and document conversion APIs.
• devflowinc/trieve: Crawl, embed, chunk, search and retrieve information from datasets through Trieve.

Developer tools

• docker/hub-mcp: Interact with Docker Hub: repositories, search and Docker Hardened Images.
• vercel/next-devtools-mcp: Next.js runtime diagnostics, route inspection, dev server logs, docs search and upgrade guides for coding agents.
• bitrise-io/bitrise-mcp: Bitrise API: app management, build operations, artifact management and more.
• api7/apisix-mcp: Query and manage all resources in Apache APISIX.
• kucherenko/jscpd: Duplicate code detection with jscpd: check snippets and files for copy/paste duplication against a scanned project before committing.

Monitoring and observability

• grafana/mcp-grafana: Search dashboards, investigate incidents and query datasources in your Grafana instance.
• pydantic/logfire-mcp: Access OpenTelemetry traces and metrics through Logfire.
• VictoriaMetrics-Community/mcp-victoriametrics: Integration with VictoriaMetrics instance APIs and documentation for monitoring, observability and debugging tasks.
• dynatrace-oss/dynatrace-managed-mcp: Query problems, logs, events, SLOs, security insights and performance metrics from self-hosted Dynatrace Managed environments.

Security

• panther-labs/mcp-panther: Use Panther's SIEM platform in natural language to write detections, query logs and manage alerts.
• safedep/vet: Locally check npm and PyPI packages, such as those suggested by AI coding tools, for vulnerabilities and malicious code.
• mobb-dev/mobb-vibe-shield-mcp: Mobb Vibe Shield identifies and remediates vulnerabilities in human and AI-written code.

Files, documents and knowledge

• microsoft/markitdown: Convert many file formats, local or remote, to Markdown for LLMs using MarkItDown.
• box/mcp-server-box-remote: Access Box content: search, ask questions about files and folders, and extract data.
• pinecone-io/assistant-mcp: Connect to your Pinecone Assistant and retrieve context from its knowledge engine.

Automation and productivity

• integromat/make-mcp-server: Turn Make scenarios into callable tools for AI assistants.
• teamwork/mcp: Project and resource management for client projects with Teamwork.
• Bidsketch/signwell-mcp: SignWell e-signatures: create documents from files or templates, send for signing, track status, send reminders, download signed PDFs and manage templates.

Finance and crypto

• alchemy/alchemy-mcp-server: Interact with Alchemy's blockchain APIs.
• bitcompare/mcp-server: Crypto lending, staking and borrowing rates, coin metadata, aggregated prices, market stats, stablecoin peg stability and symbol resolution from Bitcompare.
• ahnlabio/bicscan-mcp: BICScan risk scores and asset holdings for EVM addresses (EOA, CA, ENS) and domain names.

How to pick one

• Check who maintains it. "Official" here means the company behind the product publishes the server.
• Look at what it can change. A read-only server is safer to start with than one that can delete or deploy.
• Check how it runs: local (stdio, on your machine) or remote (a hosted URL). Remote servers often need an OAuth login or API key from the vendor.

Search all 4,259 servers

• Tools for Agents: a free, searchable directory with a page for each of the 4,259 MCP servers, plus x402 APIs and AI dev tools. Makers can claim or update their listing for free.
• FreeTier Agent API: agents can search the same MCP list by keyword or category at /api/mcp-servers ($0.001 per call in USDC over x402, no signup). A free sample is at /api/mcp-servers/sample.
• Free PDF cheat sheet: prices and free tiers for 20 AI models, if you are also choosing an LLM.

Disclosure: I wrote this with help from AI tools; the list itself is taken from awesome-mcp-servers (MIT). The directory, the API and the PDF are my own projects, and the API is paid per call. No server on this list paid to be included.