Best MCP Servers for MCP Gateways & Hosting (2026)
Gateways sit between your AI clients and your MCP servers: one endpoint, centralized auth, routing, and hosting. MCPJungle is a self-hosted registry and gateway, Metorial and Higress provide managed hosting, and XGR and API.market aggregate third-party servers behind a single connection.
This page collects the 5 MCP servers in our directory that genuinely cover mcp gateways & hosting — together they have 12,573 GitHub stars, and 2 of them run as hosted services you can connect to without installing anything. The highest-rated options are Higress MCP Server Hosting, metorial/metorial, duaraghav8/MCPJungle.
How to choose
Self-host with MCPJungle for control, pick Metorial or Higress for managed infrastructure, and use an aggregator like API.market when you want many third-party tools through one API key.
Higress MCP Server Hosting
by alibaba
A solution for hosting MCP Servers by extending the API Gateway (based on Envoy) with wasm plugins.
npx -y higress-mcp-server-hostingmetorial/metorial
by metorial
🎖️ 📇 ☁️ Connect AI agents to 600+ integrations with a single interface - OAuth, scaling, and monitoring included
npx -y @metorial-mcp-containers/rootduaraghav8/MCPJungle
by duaraghav8
🏎️ 🏠 - Self-hosted MCP Server registry for enterprise AI Agents
npx -y duaraghav8-mcpjungleAPI.market Gateway
by Shashank Agarwal
API.market provides a proprietary hosted Streamable HTTP MCP gateway for API discovery and execution. Endpoint: https://api.market/api/mcp/gateway. Its five tools are search_apis, get_api_tools, call_api, check_usage and manage_subscription; it also exposes two resources and two prompts. An API.market account and OAuth or an API key are required. Free tiers and paid plans vary by API. Claude Code connection and tool discovery have been verified; this does not establish every API operation or client has been tested. After adding the remote server, authenticate through /mcp in Claude Code. Setup: https://api.market/mcp. Contact: shashank@noveum.ai. Submitted by the API.market team; the hosted implementation is not open source.
claude mcp add --transport http api-market https://api.market/api/mcp/gatewayXGR MCP Gateway
by Oliver Boehm
XGR.Network develops XGRChain and XDaLa for deterministic, auditable on-chain process execution.
claude mcp add --transport http xgr-mainnet https://mcp.xgr.network/mcpFrequently asked questions
What is the most popular MCP server for MCP Gateways & Hosting?
Higress MCP Server Hosting leads this list with 8,308 GitHub stars. A solution for hosting MCP Servers by extending the API Gateway (based on Envoy) with wasm plugins.
Are these MCP Gateways & Hosting MCP servers free to use?
3 of the 5 servers here publish a license in the directory (Apache-2.0, MPL-2.0). 2 of them run as hosted services you can connect to remotely; the rest you install and run yourself. Hosted services may have their own pricing.
How do I choose an MCP server for MCP Gateways & Hosting?
Self-host with MCPJungle for control, pick Metorial or Higress for managed infrastructure, and use an aggregator like API.market when you want many third-party tools through one API key.