Alternatives to Metorial

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Smithery CLI

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Smithery is a CLI tool and registry for discovering, installing, and managing MCP servers and agent skills. It lets developers search thousands of available servers, install them with one command, inspect available tools, and connect their AI coding agents to external capabilities through the Model Context Protocol standard.

Free and 100% open-source CLI toolkit under the MIT license ($0 software cost). smithery-cli enables searching, installing, and configuring MCP servers across local AI clients for free. The Smithery.ai public registry is free to access, with optional paid hosted cloud deployment tiers (Hobby, Pro, Enterprise) for server hosting.

Arcade AI

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Arcade AI is an MCP runtime platform for secure agent authorization, reliable tool execution, and governance. It enables enterprises to deploy authenticated AI agents across Gmail, Slack, Salesforce, and 100+ other services without managing OAuth complexity or token refresh cycles. Arcade provides a centralized authorization layer that handles authentication, permission scoping, and compliance for every tool call an agent makes.

Freemium authorization and tool gateway for AI agents and MCP runtimes. Developer (Free) plan provides $0/mo for 2,000 auth events and 2,000 tool calls per month. Pro/Team tier starts at $20–$25/mo base platform fee with usage overages ($0.10/auth event, $0.01/tool call). Enterprise tier includes custom pricing with dedicated VPC/on-prem deployments, SAML/SSO, audit logs, and custom SLAs.

Open-source Metorial alternatives

Smithery CLI, Arcade AI — see all open-source developer tools.

Free Metorial alternatives

Arcade AI offer a free plan or free tier.

More MCP Servers tools

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MCP InspectorMCP Inspector is the official interactive developer tool from the Model Context Protocol team for testing, debugging, and validating MCP servers. It provides a visual interface to inspect available tools, test transport configurations, export configs for different clients, and verify protocol compliance during MCP server development.MCP-ScanMCP-Scan is a security tool that scans MCP servers for vulnerabilities including tool poisoning, prompt injection, cross-origin escalation, and rug pull attacks. Acquired by Snyk in 2026, it is the first dedicated security scanner for the MCP ecosystem. It analyzes tool descriptions, permissions, and behavior patterns to detect malicious or compromised MCP servers before they can exploit AI agents.GitHub MCP ServerGitHub MCP Server is the official Model Context Protocol server from GitHub that connects AI assistants to repositories, issues, pull requests, workflows, and code search. It exposes 100+ operations with toolset filtering, permission scoping, and audit logging, available in both remote-hosted and self-hosted Docker deployment modes.MCP RegistryThe official, community-run registry for discovering and publishing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers — an open index that MCP clients read to find available servers.Context7Context7 is an MCP server developed by Upstash that injects up-to-date, version-specific documentation directly into AI code editors and coding assistants. By typing 'use context7' in prompts, developers get accurate library documentation instead of hallucinated or outdated API references. It pulls from official source documentation and serves it through the Model Context Protocol, solving the common problem of LLMs generating code with incorrect or nonexistent API calls.chrome-devtools-mcpchrome-devtools-mcp is the Chrome DevTools team's official MCP server that lets coding agents control and inspect a live Chrome browser with first-party Chrome DevTools Protocol fidelity. It exposes Network inspection, Performance traces, Lighthouse audits, console output, and structured DOM snapshots as typed MCP tools, so agents can debug real pages and ship reliable web performance investigations without resorting to brittle DOM scraping.Docker MCP GatewayDocker MCP Gateway is Docker's open-source orchestration layer for Model Context Protocol servers. It gives MCP clients one gateway, launches catalog servers in isolated containers on demand, injects credentials, applies runtime restrictions, and routes tool requests. Catalogs and profiles let teams reuse approved server collections across clients, while Docker Desktop can run the gateway automatically with MCP Toolkit enabled.FastMCPFastMCP 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.SupermemorySupermemory is a memory and context platform for AI assistants and agents. It ranks #1 on LongMemEval, LoCoMo, and ConvoMem, supports MCP for Claude/Cursor-style clients, provides plugins for developer tools, and combines memory extraction, user profiles, hybrid search, connectors, and RAG in one API.

FAQ

Which Metorial alternative is listed first?

Smithery CLI is first in the editor-selected list of 2 Metorial alternatives. The stored order is editorial; review scores do not determine membership or position.

Are there open-source Metorial alternatives?

Yes — Smithery CLI, Arcade AI are open source.

Are there free Metorial alternatives?

Yes — Arcade AI offer a free plan or free tier.