MCP Server Categories

Choose an MCP category by the task and data source your assistant needs. A database connection, a design handoff and a reporting workflow involve different tools and access requirements. Start with a small job you can check, then inspect the individual server's documentation.

Find a useful starting point

For design context and component workflows, browse design integrations. For traffic and report queries, explore analytics servers. Use filesystem integrations for their documented file-access workflows; the server reads paths in the environment where it runs.

Check the connection model

Local servers usually run as a process alongside a compatible client. Remote servers use a hosted endpoint and its supported authentication. A file path on your laptop is not automatically accessible to a cloud-hosted service. Browse remote servers when you need a hosted connection, and confirm the endpoint rather than substituting the provider's homepage.

Read the profile before connecting

Open the publisher source, check the installation method and inspect the tools your client actually discovers. Confirm the intended account or workspace and try one read operation. A server may appear in more than one category, so category counts are memberships rather than a count of unique integrations.

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For a focused task, explore SEO and website audits, software testing, document and PDF tools, or email integrations. Servers appear in each relevant category; each profile keeps one primary category for navigation.

🌐 Browser Automation

984 MCP servers

Open pages, inspect a rendered interface and automate browser tasks through an MCP client. Browser servers are useful for reproducing a bug, checking a form or collecting information from a site that depends on JavaScript. Some control a local browser; others connect to a hosted session.

🗄️ Databases

2205 MCP servers

Database MCP servers connect assistants to SQL engines, document databases, caches and analytical stores. Depending on the integration, you can inspect a schema, explain a query or retrieve records without moving them through a separate chat window.

🛠️ Developer Tools

8565 MCP servers

Developer MCP servers connect coding assistants to repositories, issue trackers, debuggers and development utilities. They can provide the context needed to understand a change: a pull request, a commit, a test result or an API response. The exact actions depend on the server and the account you connect.

🔎 Search & Web Scraping

1403 MCP servers

Search and web scraping MCP servers retrieve information from the web. Search integrations find relevant pages; fetchers read a specific URL; crawlers collect content from multiple pages. These are different jobs, and choosing the right one can save time and unnecessary requests.

📁 File Systems & Storage

598 MCP servers

File and storage MCP servers give an assistant access to local folders, shared drives or object storage. Typical tasks include finding a document, reading a set of files and saving an edited result. Local filesystem access and a cloud drive connection have different setup and permission requirements.

💬 Communication

2659 MCP servers

Communication MCP servers connect assistants to email, chat and messaging services. They are useful for finding a past discussion, summarising a channel or preparing a reply with the original conversation in view. Some support sending messages as well as reading them.

✅ Productivity & Project Management

1883 MCP servers

Productivity MCP servers connect assistants to the tools where work is organised: tasks, calendars, notes, project boards and shared documents. They help answer practical questions such as which issues are open or when a meeting is scheduled, using information from the connected service.

🤖 AI & ML Services

1983 MCP servers

AI and machine learning MCP servers expose model services and related operations to an assistant. Depending on the provider, that can include image generation, speech processing, embeddings, inference or model management. These integrations connect to an additional service with its own supported inputs and usage terms.

☁️ Cloud & DevOps

1735 MCP servers

Cloud and DevOps MCP servers connect assistants to infrastructure platforms, deployment services and container environments. They can help retrieve a deployment status, inspect a cluster or look up a cloud resource. Available operations range from documentation search to changes in a live account.

💳 Payments & Commerce

2501 MCP servers

Payments and commerce MCP servers connect assistants to billing services and online stores. Typical workflows include looking up an invoice, checking a subscription, retrieving an order or searching a product catalogue. The server’s tools determine which of these operations are available.

📈 Monitoring & Observability

1236 MCP servers

Monitoring MCP servers bring logs, errors, metrics and traces into an assistant’s workflow. They help investigate a concrete event, such as a failed release or an alert, with evidence from the connected observability service. Security-focused integrations also have a separate category.

🧠 Knowledge & Memory

1603 MCP servers

Knowledge and memory MCP servers retrieve or store information that an assistant can use across tasks. They include knowledge graphs, note collections, retrieval services and persistent memory stores. A connection may provide search, structured relationships or saved observations rather than a complete copy of the original documents.

🎨 Design & Creative Tools

327 MCP servers

Design MCP servers connect assistants to design files and creative applications. They can help inspect a layout, retrieve component details or work with a supported visual editing tool. Design-file access is different from generating a new image, so compare the server’s actual operations.

📊 Analytics & Reporting

965 MCP servers

Analytics MCP servers retrieve reports, traffic measurements and business metrics from connected services. They are useful for asking about a defined date range or comparing a campaign with an earlier period. Analytics products and data warehouses can overlap, so some servers also appear under databases.

⚙️ CI/CD & Build Pipelines

67 MCP servers

CI/CD MCP servers connect assistants to automated builds, test runs and release pipelines. They can help find the failed step in a job, read its output or check the state of a deployment workflow. Some integrations also expose actions that start or retry a run.

💬 Customer Support & Help Centers

74 MCP servers

Customer support MCP servers connect assistants to tickets, customer conversations and help-centre content. They can help retrieve the history of a case, find a relevant support article or prepare a response using details from the connected platform.

📚 Documentation & API References

937 MCP servers

Documentation MCP servers retrieve library guides, API references and product documentation for an assistant. They are useful when a task depends on the right version of a package or a specific endpoint. Some search published documentation; others index files from a selected project.

🔄 Workflow Automation

124 MCP servers

Workflow automation MCP servers connect assistants to automation platforms and defined business processes. They can expose an existing workflow as a tool or provide operations for building and managing automations. This category focuses on coordinating steps across services.

🔐 Security & Identity

310 MCP servers

Security MCP servers connect assistants to identity systems, security findings and analysis tools. They can support tasks such as inspecting access policies, retrieving a vulnerability report or investigating an authentication event. Monitoring integrations may also appear here when they provide a distinct security capability.

💹 Finance & Market Data

1303 MCP servers

Finance MCP servers retrieve financial records, company information or market data from supported services. They can help organise accounting information or inspect a named instrument. Coverage, freshness and redistribution terms depend on the upstream data provider.

🤝 CRM & Sales

561 MCP servers

CRM and sales MCP servers connect assistants to contacts, accounts, leads and sales opportunities. Common tasks include finding a customer record, summarising a deal’s history or updating a supported field. These integrations can overlap with project management and customer support.

📣 Social Media & Marketing

1525 MCP servers

Social media and marketing MCP servers connect assistants to content platforms, campaigns and audience data. They can support retrieving posts, reviewing campaign results or preparing content for a supported channel. Publishing and scheduling capabilities vary by integration.

🔬 Research & Scientific Computing

317 MCP servers

Research MCP servers connect assistants to scholarly literature, scientific datasets and specialist computing tools. They can help locate a paper, retrieve a citation or work with a supported analysis service. Literature discovery and running a scientific computation are separate capabilities.

🗺️ Maps & Location

392 MCP servers

Maps and location MCP servers expose place search, geocoding, routes and other geographic operations. They are useful when an assistant needs to turn an address into coordinates or retrieve information about a named place. Supported regions and data freshness vary by provider.

🎬 Media & Entertainment

908 MCP servers

Media MCP servers connect assistants to music, video, podcast and entertainment catalogues or applications. They can help retrieve metadata, search a collection or control playback where the integration supports it. Media generation services also appear under AI and ML.

🎓 Education & Learning

107 MCP servers

Education MCP servers connect assistants to learning platforms, course materials and study tools. They can support retrieving a lesson, inspecting an assignment or managing a supported learning resource. The available operations depend on the platform and the connected role.

🩺 Healthcare & Life Sciences

243 MCP servers

Healthcare and life-science MCP servers retrieve specialist records, biomedical references or data from supported systems. They may serve research, administration or a defined clinical information workflow. This category groups the domain of the integration rather than endorsing its output for a medical decision.

✈️ Travel & Hospitality

391 MCP servers

Travel MCP servers connect assistants to transport, accommodation and trip information services. They can support searching an itinerary, checking availability or retrieving a booking where the provider exposes those operations. Search results and confirmed reservations are different outputs.

🔌 Hardware & IoT

205 MCP servers

Hardware and IoT MCP servers connect assistants to devices, sensors and home or industrial automation systems. They can retrieve a device state or expose supported controls. Some run on a local network; others use a manufacturer’s hosted service.

⛓️ Blockchain & Web3

1068 MCP servers

Blockchain MCP servers retrieve chain data or connect assistants to supported wallet and contract tools. They can help inspect a transaction, read a contract state or query an indexer. Transaction signing is a separate capability that not every server exposes.

🧩 Data Processing & Conversion

626 MCP servers

Data processing MCP servers convert, validate or transform files and structured information. Typical workflows include extracting text from a document, converting a format or preparing data for another tool. These servers may also appear under storage, research or analytics.

⚖️ Legal & Compliance

1194 MCP servers

Legal and compliance MCP servers retrieve legislation, case records, patents, trademarks or other regulatory information. Some connect to a specialist document workflow, while others search a defined public database. The jurisdiction and source coverage determine what a result can tell you.

🏛️ Government & Public Data

825 MCP servers

Public-data MCP servers retrieve information from government agencies, open-data portals and public record systems. They can help find a dataset, inspect a published statistic or look up a record in a supported jurisdiction. Coverage is specific to the upstream source.

🌦️ Weather & Environment

712 MCP servers

Weather and environment MCP servers retrieve forecasts, observations and environmental measurements. They can help answer a question about a named location or inspect a historical series. Weather forecasts, current sensor readings and climate statistics are different kinds of information.

🏅 Sports & Fitness

322 MCP servers

Sports and fitness MCP servers retrieve fixtures, results, athlete statistics or activity records from supported sources. Some focus on a public competition; others connect to a personal training account. Check the data source before comparing a live sports lookup with a workout-history integration.

🏠 Real Estate & Property

383 MCP servers

Real-estate MCP servers retrieve property listings, housing information or records from supported services. They can help find a listing or compare a defined area using the available data. Coverage may be limited to one market, listing platform or public register.

🎮 Games & Game Development

242 MCP servers

Game MCP servers connect assistants to games, game engines and related development tools. They may inspect a scene, retrieve game information or expose supported actions in a running environment. A game-catalogue integration serves a different task from an editor or gameplay controller.

🕒 Time & Date

400 MCP servers

Time and date MCP servers provide clock readings, timezone conversions and related date operations. They help when a workflow needs a definite local time or a consistent conversion between regions. These utilities are separate from calendar integrations that manage meetings and events.

♿ Accessibility & Interface Audits

172 MCP servers

Accessibility MCP servers inspect interfaces and return findings about supported accessibility checks. They can help review contrast, headings, labels or touch targets where the tool exposes those operations. Some use a rendered browser page; others inspect design or source information.

📝 Content Management

155 MCP servers

Content management MCP servers connect assistants to the systems where websites and publications store their pages, posts and media. They can help retrieve a draft, inspect a content model or update an entry when the integration exposes those operations.

📱 Mobile Development

259 MCP servers

Mobile development MCP servers connect assistants to app builds, simulators, devices and mobile development services. They can help inspect a screen, retrieve build results or manage an app update where the project supports it.

👥 Human Resources & Recruiting

238 MCP servers

Human resources MCP servers connect assistants to recruiting platforms, employee systems and related workplace records. Typical tasks include retrieving a candidate profile, finding an open role or looking up a record in a connected HR service.

📰 News & Events

577 MCP servers

News MCP servers retrieve articles, headlines and event information from supported publishers and news services. They can help find coverage of a topic or compare reports across a defined period. Source selection and publication timestamps matter when reviewing a developing story.

🔍 SEO & Website Audits

560 MCP servers

SEO MCP servers connect assistants to search visibility data and website auditing tools. They can help inspect a page, retrieve keyword or backlink data, or investigate a crawl issue when the integration exposes that capability. Search-engine optimisation is a distinct task from general web search.

🧪 Software Testing & QA

127 MCP servers

Software testing MCP servers give assistants access to test cases, test runners and quality assurance systems. They can help inspect a failed test, retrieve execution results or run a supported test suite. Different integrations cover unit tests, application workflows or performance checks.

🌿 Git & Version Control

832 MCP servers

Version control MCP servers connect assistants to Git repositories and code hosting platforms. Typical tasks include reading a diff, finding a commit, inspecting a pull request or working with a branch. Local repository tools and hosted account integrations have different access requirements.

💻 Code Execution & Sandboxes

112 MCP servers

Code execution MCP servers let assistants run supported programs or notebook cells and retrieve their output. Some use a local runtime; others create an isolated hosted sandbox. They are useful when a task needs an actual computation rather than a proposed code snippet.

🖥️ Terminal & Desktop Automation

123 MCP servers

Terminal and desktop MCP servers expose command execution or computer interactions to an assistant. They may provide a shell, a remote terminal, or controls for windows, keyboard input and the pointer. The supported operating system and interaction method determine which tasks are possible.

📧 Email & Inbox Management

676 MCP servers

Email MCP servers connect assistants to mailboxes and email delivery services. They can help find a message, review a conversation, prepare a draft or send mail where the integration supports it. Inbox access and transactional email delivery are different workflows within this category.

📅 Calendars & Scheduling

456 MCP servers

Calendar MCP servers connect assistants to events, availability and appointment services. They can help look up a meeting, compare available times or create a supported booking. Timezone conversion utilities have a separate category because they do not necessarily manage calendar records.

📄 Documents & PDFs

966 MCP servers

Document MCP servers help assistants read, create or edit supported document formats, including PDFs and word-processing files. They may extract text, inspect a document structure, apply edits or produce an output file. The available operations vary considerably between formats.

📊 Spreadsheets

253 MCP servers

Spreadsheet MCP servers connect assistants to workbooks, sheets and tabular files. They can help inspect a range, retrieve cell values or update a workbook when the integration supports those operations. Formula handling and spreadsheet formatting depend on the particular server.

📽️ Presentations & Slides

93 MCP servers

Presentation MCP servers help assistants retrieve, create or edit slide decks in supported applications and file formats. They can expose slide content, layouts or editing operations. A text outline and a rendered presentation are different outputs, so check the server’s actual scope.

🧲 Vector Search & RAG

358 MCP servers

Vector search and retrieval MCP servers connect assistants to indexed collections and semantic search systems. They can retrieve relevant passages or manage a supported vector store. Retrieval-augmented generation uses these results as context, while the connected model remains responsible for composing an answer.

🤝 AI Agents & Orchestration

329 MCP servers

Agent orchestration MCP servers connect assistants to agent runtimes and coordination systems. They can help dispatch a task, inspect an agent run or manage a defined group of workers. This category covers managing agents themselves, rather than every integration that an AI assistant can call.

🖼️ Images & Visual Editing

315 MCP servers

Image MCP servers help assistants generate, edit, inspect or convert images through supported tools. They may connect to an image model, a graphics application or a local processing library. Creating a bitmap image differs from reading a design file or generating a diagram.

🎙️ Audio & Speech

254 MCP servers

Audio and speech MCP servers connect assistants to transcription, speech synthesis and audio processing tools. They can help turn a recording into text, generate spoken output or inspect a supported audio file. The connected service determines language coverage and available voices.

🎞️ Video Tools

781 MCP servers

Video MCP servers help assistants work with video content and supported video platforms. They may retrieve metadata or captions, search a catalogue, analyse footage, edit a clip or generate a video. These capabilities vary by integration and should be checked separately.

🌍 Translation & Localization

160 MCP servers

Translation MCP servers connect assistants to language translation and localisation workflows. They can help translate text, manage translated resources or work with terminology in a supported service. This category focuses on human languages rather than converting code or database queries.

🗺️ Diagrams & Whiteboards

233 MCP servers

Diagram MCP servers help assistants create, inspect or edit visual structures such as flowcharts, architecture diagrams and whiteboards. Some generate diagrams from text syntax; others connect to an interactive canvas. These workflows can also appear under design or developer tools.

🚚 Data Engineering & ETL

51 MCP servers

Data engineering MCP servers connect assistants to data pipelines, transformation projects and data platform operations. They can help inspect a pipeline run, retrieve catalogue information or manage a supported ingestion job. Database querying alone does not establish pipeline orchestration support.

🧮 Math & Calculations

400 MCP servers

Math MCP servers provide calculation and mathematical tools to assistants. They can expose arithmetic, symbolic operations, unit conversions or a specialist computing engine. The server’s supported operations determine whether a task can be evaluated directly or needs another analysis environment.

🌐 Networking & Diagnostics

247 MCP servers

Networking MCP servers expose network lookups and diagnostic operations. They can help inspect DNS records, look up domain registration, examine a certificate or investigate connectivity where the tools support it. Security analysis and cloud infrastructure management may overlap with this category.

🍽️ Food & Recipes

286 MCP servers

Food and recipe MCP servers connect assistants to recipes, meal information and supported restaurant or food services. They can help find a dish, retrieve ingredients or inspect a menu. Personal meal planning and restaurant discovery use different data sources and filters.

📦 Logistics & Shipping

199 MCP servers

Logistics MCP servers connect assistants to shipping, fulfilment and supply-chain services. They can help look up a shipment, retrieve a delivery update or create a supported shipping record. Store orders and parcel movements are related but distinct business objects.

📣 Advertising & PPC

182 MCP servers

Advertising MCP servers connect assistants to paid media accounts and campaign data. They can help inspect Google Ads or Meta Ads performance, compare spending and retrieve supported campaign settings. This category focuses on paid advertising; publishing an organic social post belongs under social media.

🧾 Accounting & Bookkeeping

172 MCP servers

Accounting MCP servers connect assistants to bookkeeping platforms and financial records such as invoices, bills, contacts and ledger accounts. Xero and QuickBooks integrations are examples of this workflow. They differ from market-data tools, which retrieve prices or investment information rather than a business’s own books.

🛍️ E-commerce & Online Stores

308 MCP servers

E-commerce MCP servers connect assistants to online stores, product catalogues and supported shopping services. Common workflows include finding products, inspecting inventory and retrieving orders. Store administration, storefront product discovery and developer documentation are different capabilities, even when they concern the same commerce platform.

📋 Project & Task Management

381 MCP servers

Project management MCP servers connect assistants to issues, tasks, boards and project plans. They can bring a Jira ticket, Linear project or Todoist task into a working conversation and expose supported updates. This category is for tracking work; meeting availability and personal notes have their own categories.

📝 Notes & Personal Knowledge

184 MCP servers

Note-taking MCP servers connect assistants to notebooks, Markdown vaults and personal knowledge applications. Obsidian, Apple Notes and Evernote integrations can help find an earlier idea or work with a supported note. A note collection may overlap with document storage or knowledge retrieval without providing a vector database.

🎧 Meetings & Transcripts

45 MCP servers

Meeting MCP servers connect assistants to meeting records, recordings and conversation transcripts. They can help retrieve a discussion, find an action item or inspect a supported meeting summary. Scheduling a future appointment and transcribing an arbitrary audio file are related workflows covered by separate categories.

🔌 API Development & Testing

216 MCP servers

API development MCP servers help assistants inspect API schemas, work with request collections and test supported endpoints. They may expose OpenAPI validation, Postman workspaces or API exploration tools. This category covers working on APIs themselves, rather than every server that happens to call an API.

🔬 Code Search & Intelligence

154 MCP servers

Code intelligence MCP servers help assistants understand a codebase through symbol search, references, diagnostics and other navigation tools. Language server integrations can expose semantic information that plain text search misses. These tools complement repository history and code execution, which answer different questions about a change.

☸️ Kubernetes & Containers

269 MCP servers

Kubernetes and container MCP servers connect assistants to clusters, workloads and container runtimes. They can help inspect pod state, retrieve logs or work with supported deployment resources. A tool that is merely packaged in a Docker image does not belong here unless it exposes container or cluster operations.

🏗️ Infrastructure as Code

48 MCP servers

Infrastructure as code MCP servers help assistants work with declarative infrastructure, provider documentation and supported configuration workflows. Terraform, OpenTofu and Pulumi integrations can expose different parts of this process, from finding a module to inspecting a workspace. Documentation access alone does not imply permission to provision resources.

🔐 Identity & Access Management

30 MCP servers

Identity and access management MCP servers connect assistants to identity providers, directories and authorisation systems. They can help inspect users, groups, applications and supported access policies. This category covers managing identity resources; using OAuth to sign into an unrelated integration does not make it an identity management tool.

🗝️ Secrets & Credentials

21 MCP servers

Secrets management MCP servers connect assistants to credential stores, password managers and secret-management services. They may expose secret lookup, environment selection or supported credential updates. Supplying an API key to a normal MCP integration is different from managing secrets as the integration’s main workflow.

🚩 Feature Flags & Experiments

27 MCP servers

Feature flag MCP servers connect assistants to release controls, targeting rules and supported experimentation services. They can help find a flag, inspect a rollout or retrieve experiment results. An unrelated server with an experimental configuration switch does not necessarily offer tools for managing application feature flags.

🚨 Incident & On-call Management

33 MCP servers

Incident management MCP servers connect assistants to operational incidents, response timelines and on-call services. They can help inspect an active incident, find the responsible team or retrieve supported response actions. Monitoring data is often useful alongside this workflow but does not by itself provide incident management.

📈 Web & Product Analytics

133 MCP servers

Web and product analytics MCP servers connect assistants to website traffic, events and visitor behaviour data. They can help compare acquisition channels, inspect a conversion funnel or retrieve supported engagement reports. Google Analytics, Plausible and product analytics services differ in their event models and reporting options.

✉️ Email Marketing

46 MCP servers

Email marketing MCP servers connect assistants to subscriber audiences, campaign records and supported marketing automation services. They can help inspect a mailing list or work with a campaign in platforms such as Mailchimp and Klaviyo. Personal inbox search and transactional delivery are separate email workflows.

🗳️ Forms & Surveys

17 MCP servers

Forms and survey MCP servers connect assistants to questionnaires, form definitions and submitted responses. They can help inspect questions, retrieve feedback or create a supported form. Google Forms and other survey tools vary in their support for quizzes, conditional questions and response editing.

✍️ E-signatures & Agreements

43 MCP servers

E-signature MCP servers connect assistants to signing services, agreement templates and supported contract workflows. They can help inspect a signing request, prepare a template-based document or retrieve its status. Reading a PDF and sending an agreement for signature are different operations with different service requirements.

⏱️ Time Tracking & Timesheets

95 MCP servers

Time tracking MCP servers connect assistants to timers, time entries and project timesheets. They can help find recorded hours or create a supported entry in services such as Toggl, Clockify and Harvest. These tools track work duration; timezone conversion and calendar scheduling have separate categories.

📉 Business Intelligence & Dashboards

60 MCP servers

Business intelligence MCP servers connect assistants to dashboards, semantic models and reporting platforms. They can help find a Tableau view, inspect a Metabase question or work with supported business metrics. These tools add reporting context beyond a direct connection to a database or raw event stream.

🔗 Other Integrations

20690 MCP servers

This category contains specialist MCP integrations whose purpose does not fit the directory’s more specific categories. Some connect a niche service; others expose several unrelated operations through one server. Read the individual profile to understand the data source and the work the tools support.