Best MCP Servers for Vector Databases (2026)
The storage layer behind semantic search and RAG: official servers for Qdrant, Chroma, and Milvus, Redis with its vector capabilities, and a self-hosted Mem0 server that uses vector storage for agent memory.
This page collects the 5 MCP servers in our directory that genuinely cover vector databases — together they have 2,744 GitHub stars, and 0 of them run as hosted services you can connect to without installing anything. The highest-rated options are qdrant/mcp-server-qdrant, chroma-core/chroma-mcp, redis/mcp-redis.
How to choose
Choose Chroma for the fastest local start, Qdrant or Milvus for production scale, Redis if it is already in your stack, and Mem0 when the goal is memory rather than raw vectors.
qdrant/mcp-server-qdrant
by qdrant
🐍 🏠 - A Qdrant MCP server
npx -y @smithery/clichroma-core/chroma-mcp
by chroma-core
🎖️ 🐍 ☁️ 🏠 - Chroma MCP server to access local and cloud Chroma instances for retrieval capabilities
npx -y chroma-core-chroma-mcpredis/mcp-redis
by redis
The official Redis MCP Server is a natural-language interface for managing and searching data in Redis from MCP clients. It provides string, hash, list, set, and sorted set tools, pub/sub and Streams tools, JSON document tools, vector index management and vector search through its query engine tools, a tool to search Redis documentation, and a server management tool.
npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/inspectorzilliztech/mcp-server-milvus
by zilliztech
🐍 🏠 ☁️ - MCP Server for Milvus / Zilliz, making it possible to interact with your database.
npx -y zilliztech-mcp-server-milvuselvismdev/mem0-mcp-selfhosted
by elvismdev
](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/elvismdev/mem0-mcp-selfhosted) 🐍 🏠 🍎 🪟 🐧 - Self-hosted mem0 MCP server for Claude Code with Qdrant vector search, Neo4j knowledge graph, and Ollama embeddings. Zero
uvx --fromFrequently asked questions
What is the most popular MCP server for Vector Databases?
qdrant/mcp-server-qdrant leads this list with 1,385 GitHub stars. 🐍 🏠 - A Qdrant MCP server
Are these Vector Databases MCP servers free to use?
5 of the 5 servers here publish a license in the directory (Apache-2.0, MIT). 0 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 Vector Databases?
Choose Chroma for the fastest local start, Qdrant or Milvus for production scale, Redis if it is already in your stack, and Mem0 when the goal is memory rather than raw vectors.