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mcp-proxy is a protocol bridge that converts MCP servers using stdio transport into HTTP and Server-Sent Events endpoints accessible over the network. This enables remote MCP server hosting, load balancing, and sharing servers across multiple AI clients. Supports both directions: wrapping stdio servers with HTTP and connecting to remote SSE servers through local stdio. Over 2,400 GitHub stars.
FastMCP is an Apache-2.0 Python framework for building MCP servers, clients, and apps with decorators, type hints, transports, auth patterns, deployment docs, and telemetry hooks. The project now resolves to PrefectHQ/fastmcp, with Prefect Horizon available as a separate enterprise MCP gateway for identity, RBAC, audit, monitoring, and server governance.
MCPM is a command-line package manager for MCP servers that handles installation, configuration, and profile management. It supports profile-based server grouping where different AI workflows use different sets of MCP servers. Features a server registry, automatic dependency resolution, and configuration file management for Claude Desktop and other MCP clients.
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mcp-proxy tops our editor-verified list of 3 mcp2cli alternatives.
Yes — mcp-proxy, FastMCP, MCPM are open source.