Best of MCP Servers

Description

Best of MCP Servers is a GitHub-hosted, automatically ranked and weekly updated curated list of roughly 400 Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Projects are grouped into 34 categories and scored using project-quality metrics collected from GitHub and various package managers. The list serves as a centralized, data-driven directory for discovering top MCP servers and their ecosystems.

Website

• Source / Repository: https://github.com/tolkonepiu/best-of-mcp-servers

Category

• MCP server directories & lists

Brand

• Publisher: best-of-lists
• Brand logo: https://best-of.org/assets/best-of-logo.png

Images

• https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/tolkonepiu/best-of-mcp-servers
• https://best-of.org/assets/best-of-social-card.png

Key Details

• Scope: ~400 MCP servers
• Grouping: 34 categories
• Ranking: Automatically ranked via quality metrics
• Update frequency: Weekly
• Hosting: GitHub repository
• License: CC-BY-SA-4.0

Features

• Curated MCP server list: Manually and programmatically curated collection of MCP servers and related tooling.
• Automatic ranking: Servers are ranked using project-quality metrics derived from GitHub and package managers (e.g., stars, activity, downloads, etc., as available in the source data).
• Weekly updates: Rankings and entries are updated on a weekly basis for freshness.
• Category organization: ~400 servers are organized into 34 thematic categories for easier discovery and browsing.
• GitHub & package manager metrics: Uses data pulled from GitHub and various package registries to inform scoring.
• History tracking: Includes a history directory and latest-changes.md to track how the list and rankings evolve over time.
• Configuration-driven: Uses configuration files (e.g., config directory, projects.yaml) to define and maintain the set of projects and scoring.
• Open contribution model: Provides CONTRIBUTING.md for users to propose new MCP servers or improvements to existing entries.
• Open content license: Distributed under CC-BY-SA-4.0, enabling reuse and remixing with attribution and share-alike.
• Part of best-of ecosystem: Generated from the best-of-lists/best-of tooling, aligning with other “best-of” curated lists.

Pricing

• Not applicable (open GitHub repository / list, no pricing information provided).

Tags

• curated-list
• directory
• tool-discovery

Slug

• best-of-mcp-servers