Awesome Mcp Open

Awesome MCP Open [](https://awesome.re)

> Model Context Protocol servers you can actually run yourself.

I kept running into the same thing: I'd find a promising MCP server, wire it up, and only then realize it was just a shell around some company's paid API. Cancel the subscription and it's a brick. Most of the big MCP lists are full of these.

So I started keeping my own list, and this is it. Only servers you can actually run yourself. Open source, self-hosted, your data stays on your machine. If a tool only works by calling home to someone else's cloud, it's not here. That's the whole rule, and everything below has been checked against it by hand.

Contents

• [🔍 Search & Web](#search-web)
• [🌐 Browser Automation](#browser-automation)
• [🗄️ Databases](#databases)
• [📊 Data & Analytics](#data-analytics)
• [🛠️ Developer Tools](#developer-tools)

• [🚢 DevOps & Infra](#devops-infra)
• [☁️ Cloud & Deploy](#cloud-deploy)
• [💳 Payments & Finance](#payments-finance)
• [🎨 Design & Media](#design-media)
• [🧠 Memory](#memory)

• [📋 Productivity & Tasks](#productivity-tasks)
• [💬 Communication](#communication)
• [📣 Social](#social)
• [🗺️ Maps & Location](#maps-location)
• [🔒 Security](#security)

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What earns a place

A server has to clear three bars. Miss one and it's out, however good it is otherwise.

• Self-hostable. You run it, and nothing in the request path has to touch a vendor's servers.
• Open source. A real FOSS license, so you can read the code before you give it access to anything.
• No lock-in. It keeps working without a paid backend, and your data isn't stuck on someone else's box.

Plenty gets left out on purpose. Cloud-only servers you can't run. Projects under source-available licenses that aren't really open (n8n's is the usual example). Clients that do nothing until you pay for an API. Mostly good software, just not what I'm collecting here.

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Red flags

Some of these work fine but come with a catch you'll want to know about first. Two of them show up in red, and you can confirm either one on the repo page in a few seconds:

| flag | meaning | |---|---| | $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{fiddly setup}}$ | wants Docker, a database, or a few services running before it does anything | | $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{heavy}}$ | throws dozens of tools at the model and eats into your context |

New & emerging

🌿 means it's newer and still under 500 stars. Often worth a try, just less proven than the ones that have been around a while.

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🔍 Search & Web

• Brave Search · Query Brave's Search, Summarizer, and Local APIs from an MCP server
• Crawl4AI · Self-hosted LLM-friendly web crawler and scraper with a built-in Docker MCP bridge exposing crawl, scrape, and markdown-extraction tools · $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{fiddly setup}}$
• DuckDuckGo · Search DuckDuckGo and fetch/parse page content into clean text with no API key needed
• fastCRW 🌿 · Rust-based self-hostable crawl, scrape, and search server, a keyless Firecrawl/Tavily alternative for agents
• Fetch · Official reference MCP server that fetches a URL and converts its content to markdown for LLM consumption
• Hister · Indexes your browsing history and local files into a private, full-text search engine reachable over MCP
• Meilisearch · Manage indexes, documents and settings and run searches on a self-hosted Meilisearch instance
• Open WebSearch · Multi-engine web search MCP server scraping Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Startpage and more with no API keys required
• SearXNG · Query a self-hosted or public SearXNG metasearch instance for private, ad-free web search results
• Wigolo · Local-first web search, fetch, crawl, and research tools for agents with zero API keys or cloud

🌐 Browser Automation

• Browser Use · Lets AI agents drive a locally running browser to complete multi-step web tasks, exposed as an MCP server
• BrowserTools · Streams live browser console logs, network requests, and screenshots from a Chrome extension into an MCP-compatible IDE · $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{fiddly setup}}$
• BrowserWing · Turns recorded browser actions into reusable MCP commands or skills for fast, reliable site automation
• Chrome DevTools · Controls a local Chrome instance for performance tracing, network inspection, and DOM debugging via the Chrome DevTools Protocol
• Computer-Use Agent (CUA) · Runs a full computer-use agent driving sandboxed macOS/Windows/Linux VMs for cross-OS desktop control · $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{fiddly setup}}$ · $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{heavy}}$
• Desktop Commander · Gives an agent terminal control, filesystem search, and diff-based file editing on your local desktop
• DrissionPage MCP Server 🌿 · Exposes 53 typed DrissionPage browser tools for structured, vision-ready navigation, clicking, and form automation · $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{heavy}}$
• OpenDia · Connects AI models to your real Chrome, Firefox, or Arc browser using your existing logins and sessions
• Playwright · Drives a real Chromium/Firefox/WebKit browser via Playwright's accessibility tree for navigation, form filling, and scraping
• Safari MCP 🌿 · Automates native Safari on macOS via AppleScript with 80+ tools, keeping logins without a headless browser · $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{heavy}}$
• Skyvern · Automate browser workflows with vision-and-LLM-driven agents instead of brittle selectors
• Stealth Browser MCP · Drives undetectable real browser instances to bypass Cloudflare and anti-bot systems for AI agents · $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{heavy}}$

🗄️ Databases

• DBHub · Zero-dependency SQL gateway MCP server for Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server and SQLite with read-only mode and query guardrails
• Elasticsearch MCP Server · Official Elastic server for natural-language search, index management, and cluster analysis against a self-hosted Elasticsearch
• FreePeak DB · Go-based multi-database MCP server supporting concurrent MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle and TimescaleDB connections with schema and performance tools · $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{heavy}}$
• Milvus · Official MCP server exposing collection search, insert, and query tools for a self-hosted Milvus vector database · $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{fiddly setup}}$
• MindsDB · Query and federate data across many databases and sources through a self-hosted MCP-enabled server · $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{fiddly setup}}$
• MongoDB MCP Server · Official server for querying, managing, and aggregating self-hosted MongoDB or Atlas clusters through natural language
• MotherDuck / DuckDB · Runs SQL analytics over local, in-memory, or S3-hosted DuckDB files with no MotherDuck account required
• MySQL · Enables secure, configurable read/write SQL access to a self-hosted MySQL database
• Neo4j · Run Cypher queries and manage graph data and schema on a self-hosted Neo4j database
• OpenSearch MCP Server 🌿 · Official OpenSearch Project server exposing search, index, and cluster-management tools for self-hosted OpenSearch clusters
• Postgres MCP Pro · Runs against your own Postgres to give schema introspection, EXPLAIN-based query tuning, index advice, and configurable read/write SQL access
• Qdrant · Official MCP server for storing and semantically searching data in a self-hosted Qdrant vector database · $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{fiddly setup}}$
• Redis · Natural-language interface to manage, query, and inspect data in a Redis instance · $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{fiddly setup}}$
• Supabase · Manage Supabase projects, tables, and queries from an MCP server
• Toolbox for Databases · Connect an agent to Postgres, MySQL, Spanner, and other databases through a shared open toolbox
• Weaviate · Vector database with a native MCP endpoint you enable and self-host via a single environment variable · $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{fiddly setup}}$

📊 Data & Analytics

• Apache Airflow MCP Server 🌿 · Exposes Apache Airflow DAGs, runs, and task instances as MCP tools for orchestrating self-hosted data pipelines
• Apache Pinot MCP Server 🌿 · StarTree-maintained server for querying and inspecting self-hosted Apache Pinot real-time OLAP analytics clusters
• Apache Superset · Built-in service letting AI agents query and manage dashboards, charts, and datasets on a self-hosted Superset instance · $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{fiddly setup}}$
• ClickHouse · Official MCP server for running read/write SQL queries and browsing schema on a self-hosted ClickHouse cluster · $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{fiddly setup}}$
• dbt · Official server running dbt Core CLI commands, codegen, and local lineage/manifest introspection for a dbt project
• Grafana · Query and manage self-hosted Grafana dashboards, datasources, alerts, and incidents via its API · $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{heavy}}$
• Grafana Loki · Discover labels and run LogQL queries against a self-hosted Grafana Loki instance
• Metabase MCP 🌿 · Bridges AI assistants to a self-hosted Metabase, querying dashboards and running SQL questions
• OpenTelemetry (Traceloop) · Query and analyze OpenTelemetry traces from self-hosted Jaeger or Tempo backends for debugging and LLM observability
• Prometheus · Query and analyze metrics from a self-hosted Prometheus server using PromQL
• Trino MCP Server 🌿 · High-performance Go server letting AI agents query and explore self-hosted Trino data warehouses

🛠️ Developer Tools

• ast-grep · Exposes ast-grep structural code search and codemod rewriting as MCP tools
• Commands · Run arbitrary shell commands or direct executables on the host machine via a runProcess tool
• DevDocs · Crawl and index any tech documentation site into a private, searchable MCP knowledge base · $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{fiddly setup}}$
• Filesystem · Read, write, edit, move, search, and manage files and directories on the local filesystem with configurable root access control
• Firefox DevTools MCP 🌿 · Official Mozilla server exposing Firefox remote debugging to AI assistants for live page inspection
• Ghidra MCP · 200+ tools for AI-driven reverse engineering through Ghidra, as a GUI plugin plus a headless server · $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{heavy}}$
• Git · Official reference MCP server exposing local git operations like status, diff, commit, and log
• GitHub · Self-hosted server exposing GitHub repository, issue, PR, and code-search operations to MCP clients · $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{heavy}}$
• Language Server (LSP) · Wraps any language server to expose LSP definitions, references, rename, and diagnostics as MCP tools
• MarkItDown · Convert PDFs, Office docs, images, and more to markdown for LLM consumption
• OpenAPI · Turn any local or remote OpenAPI specification into callable MCP tools, prompts, and resources
• Pandoc · Convert documents between Markdown, HTML, PDF, DOCX, and other formats using local Pandoc · $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{fiddly setup}}$
• Sequential Thinking · Structures dynamic, revisable step-by-step reasoning for complex problem solving
• Serena · Provides LSP-based semantic code retrieval and editing tools (find symbol, references, rename) across languages · $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{heavy}}$
• Shell Server · Execute a whitelisted set of shell commands with stdin support through a secure argv-based MCP interface
• x64dbg MCP 🌿 · Plugin bridging the x64dbg/x32dbg debugger to AI agents over JSON-RPC for remote binary debugging

🚢 DevOps & Infra

• Azure DevOps MCP · Official Microsoft server bringing Azure DevOps boards, repos, and pipelines into AI coding agents
• Containarium 🌿 · Self-hostable agent runtime giving each AI agent an SSH-isolated sandbox on Kubernetes or LXC
• Docker Hub MCP 🌿 · Official Docker server for image discovery, search, and repository management via LLMs
• Helm · Runs Helm CLI operations (install, upgrade, list, repo management) against a Kubernetes cluster · $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{fiddly setup}}$
• Kubernetes · Native Go MCP server for Kubernetes and OpenShift cluster management with no external CLI dependency
• Kubernetes (Flux159) · Manages Kubernetes clusters via kubectl/helm, covering pods, deployments, services, and manifests · $\textcolor{red}{\textsf{heavy}}$
• RootCause 🌿 · Local-first server turning natural-l

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Source & license

This open-source MCP server is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: rizzdev
• Source: rizzdev/awesome-mcp-open
• License: CC0-1.0

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.