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Smithery

Marketplace of 14,000+ hosted MCP servers with one-click connect

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What Smithery does

  • Marketplace of 14,000+ hosted MCP servers with one-click connect
  • Handles OAuth/credential plumbing automatically for MCP tool auth
  • Connections reusable across Claude, GPT and other MCP clients

Smithery — straight answers

What is Smithery?

Smithery is listed under MCP Ecosystem, in the AI Agents & Automation category on Flocci AI Tools. Marketplace of 14,000+ hosted MCP servers with one-click connect. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at smithery.ai.

Is Smithery free?

Smithery is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 391 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.

What can Smithery do?

Smithery does 3 things the catalog singles out: Marketplace of 14,000+ hosted mcp servers with one-click connect; handles oauth/credential plumbing automatically for mcp tool auth; connections reusable across claude, gpt and other mcp clients.

What is the best free alternative to Smithery?

MCP Registry (Official) is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same MCP Ecosystem sub-category and is free. Cloudflare MCP, Composio and Glama also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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Composio

MCP Ecosystem
freemium
  • Managed auth + tool-call infrastructure for agents across 250+ apps
  • Free tier: 20,000 tool calls/month with community support
  • Ships both MCP servers and native SDKs for major agent frameworks
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Glama

MCP Ecosystem
freemium
  • Indexes and security-scans thousands of MCP servers for compatibility/safety
  • API gateway for connecting to MCP servers programmatically
  • Free account tier plus paid gateway/enterprise options
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Cloudflare MCP

MCP Ecosystem
freemium
  • Build and deploy remote MCP servers directly on Cloudflare Workers with built-in OAuth
  • Ships an Agents SDK for stateful, durable AI agents alongside MCP hosting
  • Runs on Cloudflare's free-tier-eligible Workers platform, scaling to global edge
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free
  • The canonical open-source specification and docs for the Model Context Protocol
  • Reference server/client SDKs and the official server registry
  • Backed across the ecosystem — Claude, ChatGPT, VS Code, Cursor, MCPJam all implement it
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Zapier MCP

MCP Ecosystem
freemium
  • Turns any of Zapier's 9,000+ app integrations into callable MCP tools for any AI client
  • Pre-authenticated connections avoid per-app OAuth setup for agent builders
  • Included on all Zapier plans (including free), billed against existing task quota
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Manus

General Autonomous Agents
freemium
  • Fully autonomous agent in a cloud sandbox
  • Breaks goals into steps and executes them
  • Web research, code execution and file output
  • 'My Computer' desktop environment
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