Smithery alternatives

Public directory of MCP servers, now part of Arcade.dev. Until 2026-10-31 it was also a connection layer (hosted MCP proxy, Connect, Toolbox, managed credentials, API, CLI and SDKs); those shut down that day, and verified servers' registry pages now list… Full Smithery record →

  1. 1 Kong AI Gateway MCP gateways & registries

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    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ? MCP ✓ ★ 44k released 2026-10-19 Apache-2.0 (Kong Gateway OSS); enterprise… Compare with Smithery →

  2. 2 Official MCP Registry MCP gateways & registries

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    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ? MCP ? ★ 7.4k released 2026-10-29 Apache-2.0 (transitioning from MIT) Compare with Smithery →

  3. 3 IBM ContextForge MCP Gateway MCP gateways & registries

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    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ? MCP ✓ ★ 4.7k released 2026-10-29 Apache-2.0 Compare with Smithery →

  4. 4 Docker MCP Catalog, Toolkit & Gateway MCP gateways & registries

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    OSS — Self-host ? Managed ? MCP ✓ ★ 1.6k released 2026-10-26 proprietary; mcp-gateway MIT Compare with Smithery →

  5. 5 Obot MCP gateways & registries

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    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ? MCP ✓ ★ 1.1k released 2026-10-29 MIT Compare with Smithery →

  6. 6 Microsoft MCP Gateway MCP gateways & registries

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    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ? MCP ✓ ★ 899 released 2026-10-27 MIT Compare with Smithery →

  7. 7 Cloudflare MCP server portals MCP gateways & registries

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    OSS — Self-host ? Managed ? MCP ✓ proprietary Compare with Smithery →

  8. 8 Glama MCP MCP gateways & registries

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    OSS — Self-host ? Managed ? MCP ? proprietary Compare with Smithery →

Ranked by shared memory design (storage, retrieval, conflict handling, memory unit), same section and shared must-haves (open source, self-hosting, MCP), with adoption as a tie-breaker. ✓ confirmed · — no · ? not in the catalog yet. Want picks for your own requirements? Use the chooser. Checking a whole project? Check your stack.