What is a remote MCP server?
A remote MCP server runs over HTTP/SSE instead of a local process — you point your client at a URL instead of installing and running anything on your own machine.
Discover hosted MCP endpoints. Check the provider, authentication and setup instructions before connecting.
sandcastlelabs
MCP server for Collimer — run a free AI-search visibility scan (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews) from any agent. npx collimer-mcp
Courtroom5
Civil legal guidance for self-represented litigants
Webflow
Sites, CMS, publishing
Jam
Record screen and collect automatic context for issues
gishh
Read-only, source-backed AI model pricing, history, comparisons and cost calculations.
Avo
Official remote MCP server that lets AI assistants search, design and implement your Avo analytics tracking plan.
Seam
Free, public MCP server that gives AI coding assistants Seam's API docs, API spec and supported device catalog.
Dovetail
Turn feedback into decisions
Bigdata.com
Access real-time financial data
hardhackerlabs
Search podcasts, retrieve transcripts and summaries, ask questions, translate episodes, create clips and export notes. Requires a Pro or Enterprise account.
parallel-web
Searches the Web
Atsign AI Architect
Let your AI assistant draft, validate and export secure-by-design architecture blueprints in Atsign AI Architect.
WordPress.com
Secure AI access to manage your WordPress.com sites
AI-Ready Webpage Extractor (Apify)
Convert web pages to clean Markdown and retrieval-ready chunks with browser rendering support.
Zontak-LLC
Manage a freelancer timesheet through a hosted MCP server with OAuth or bearer-token access.
Spotify
Music and podcast recommendations, just for you.
QueryLines
Query US surplus-lines insurance-market statistics from state stamping-office publications.
Real-time flight search for Claude and any MCP client. Ask for flights by origin, destination, dates, passengers, and cabin class — results come back categorized as best, cheapest, and fastest, each with price, full itin
Apollo.io
Contacts, companies, sales engagement
Video Transcript
Convert video URLs to transcripts with speech recognition when captions are unavailable.
maxzoa
Production remote MCP server with 35 safe web-intelligence tools: 32 paid x402 URL operations plus 3 free discovery/demo tools. Base Mainnet USDC, no account or API key; SSRF protection, strict schemas and idempotent set
Yahoo Finance
Stock data, market news, financials, and price history
Motion Creative Analytics
Analyze your Meta ad creative & competitor ad libraries
Open Targets
Drug target discovery data
plori-ai
Give your AI agent its own cloud computer. Create and drive hosted plori agents over remote MCP: invoke agents and read replies, human-in-the-loop queue, scheduled runs.
Aurora
Search your Consilio matters, docs, and more.
Railway
Projects, services, environments, deployments
Trimble SketchUp
Create and iterate 3D models for use in SketchUp
lastminute.com
Flights, hotels, holiday packages
Kosa
Give AI agents access to your venture firm's Kosa records: deals, companies, people, funds, meeting briefs and relationship strength.
Supermetrics
Marketing data and reporting
blackboxfoundry
Live and regularly refreshed public-data tools across multiple domains through LiveDataLink. A free API key includes 1,000 monthly queries; plans have fixed monthly allowances and no automatic overages.
Omni Analytics
Query your data using natural language through Omni's semantic model
Consensus
Explore scientific research
IBISWorld
Financials, risk data and analysis on 50,000 industries
Carta
The connected ERP for private capital
tldraw
Diagrams and whiteboards
Intercom
AI access to Intercom data for better customer insights
Layerz
Structured financial modeling for AI assistants through a hosted MCP endpoint.
Minh42
SEO and AI-search research using Search Console, keywords, backlinks and site audits, with CMS fixes staged for human approval.
Tapetide-hq
Tapetide MCP provides Indian stock research, screening, quotes, financial statements, market data, document research, portfolios and watchlists. Connect with OAuth or a personal token, remotely or via the local npm packa
iScanner
Hosted MCP app from iScanner that turns photos of pages into cleaned-up, cropped scans and exports them as one PDF.
Zero
Let your AI assistant search, create and update contacts, companies, deals and sequences in the Zero AI-native CRM.
meetgeekai
Bring MeetGeek meeting transcripts, summaries, highlights and action items into AI workflows.
PaKi Curator
Catalogue research for César Yagüe's moving-image artworks with frame-level measurements.
Egnyte
Securely access and analyze Egnyte content.
Similarweb
Real time web, mobile app, and market data.
Asana
Tasks, projects, workspaces
worklittle
Search live jobs, related roles and job details.
AssetLog
Search and post classified listings for jobs, cars and real estate through an agent-accessible API.
Moody's
Credit ratings and risk data
Orcool
Creative decision engine for ad teams inside Claude. Brand signals, ranked concepts, scripts, and finished 9:16 video ads. Read-only by default, write scopes opt-in per workspace.
Attentive
Connect Claude or Codex to Attentive for SMS, email and push reporting, campaign drafts, journeys and segments.
trooth-eng
Read public company trust records, inspect security surfaces and verify signed trust records.
Fireflies
Meeting transcripts, summaries, search
Docusign
Agreements, envelopes, signing
item
Connect AI clients to your item CRM workspace to search records, ask the item assistant and update notes, tasks and lists.
AWS Knowledge MCP Server
Search and read current AWS documentation, check regional availability and load AWS agent skills, with no AWS account needed.
Ezoic Setup
Ezoic's AI Setup Assistant as an MCP server: get working Ezoic ad-integration code from your AI assistant, no login.
Shopify
Build, manage, and analyze your Shopify store
Common questions about hosted and remote MCP servers
A remote MCP server runs over HTTP/SSE instead of a local process — you point your client at a URL instead of installing and running anything on your own machine.
A local server runs on your machine and needs a runtime like Node.js or Python. A remote server is hosted by a third party — you just need a URL (and sometimes an API key) to connect, which is simpler to set up but depends on the provider staying online.
Your data passes through the provider's infrastructure, so stick to servers run by official or well-known teams that document how they handle data, and grant sensitive permissions carefully.
Add the server URL in a client that supports remote MCP, then configure OAuth, an API key, or request headers as required by the provider. Streamable HTTP, SSE, and authentication support vary by client, so follow both the server page and client documentation.
Yes. Calls depend on network access, provider uptime, and rate limits. For important workflows, check the provider's status page, timeout and retry behavior, quotas, and fallback options.
Yes, when the client supports the server's remote transport and authentication method. Newer clients commonly support Streamable HTTP, while older versions may only support SSE or local stdio, so verify version compatibility first.