THE INDEX · GATEWAYS & PROXIES
Gateways & Proxies
Layers that sit between a client and one or more MCP servers to route, aggregate, enforce policy, or federate. Many also terminate authentication; they are listed here when routing or aggregation is the primary function.
19 listings
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What belongs in this category
- MCP-aware gateways, proxies, and routers
- Products that aggregate several MCP servers behind one endpoint
- Policy and guardrail enforcement points in the request path
agentgateway
Gateways & Proxies
Open-source proxy for MCP and A2A with multiplexing, authorization, and OpenTelemetry.
Self-hosted
Bifrost
Gateways & Proxies
Open-source LLM and MCP gateway with a unified API across providers, fallbacks and load balancing
Self-hosted
ContextForge
Gateways & Proxies
An open-source registry and proxy that federates MCP, A2A, and REST or gRPC APIs with centralized governance, discovery, and observability.
Self-hosted
Docker MCP Gateway
Gateways & Proxies
The MCP Gateway is Docker's open source solution for orchestrating Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. It acts as a centralized proxy between clients and servers, managing configuration, credentials, and access control.
Self-hosted
Lunar.dev MCPX
Gateways & Proxies
Aggregates multiple MCP servers behind a unified gateway with security, observability, and management.
Hybrid
mcp-proxy
Gateways & Proxies
Bridges Streamable HTTP and stdio MCP transports.
Self-hosted
mcpo
Gateways & Proxies
Exposes an MCP server as an OpenAPI-compatible HTTP server, auto-generating interactive docs
Self-hosted
mcpproxy-go
Gateways & Proxies
Runs a local single-binary MCP proxy with a web UI, activity logging, and security quarantine.
Self-hosted
MetaMCP
Gateways & Proxies
Aggregates MCP servers into unified endpoints with middleware, authentication, and tool filtering
Self-hosted
MCP Gateway
Gateways & Proxies
Reverse proxy and management layer for MCP servers, enabling scalable, session-aware stateful routing and lifecycle management of MCP servers in Kubernetes environments.
Self-hosted
MintMCP
Gateways & Proxies
Enterprise gateway for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) providing observability, governance, and enablement for AI tools across ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and more.
Hybrid
Natoma
Gateways & Proxies
Gateway with a verified MCP server library, role-based profiles, a Cedar policy engine and identity-aware authorization
Hybrid
Obot MCP Gateway
Gateways & Proxies
The MCP Gateway is a reverse-proxy passthrough that sits between MCP clients and MCP servers. It authenticates users, ensures servers are deployed, and forwards requests without modifying the MCP protocol.
Self-hosted
Portkey MCP Gateway
Gateways & Proxies
The MCP Gateway is Portkey’s solution for managing access to MCP servers. It acts as a proxy between MCP Clients and MCP servers, handling authentication, access control, and logging.
Hybrid
supergateway
Gateways & Proxies
Runs MCP stdio servers over SSE, WebSockets or Streamable HTTP with one npx command
Self-hosted
ToolHive
Gateways & Proxies
Deploys, runs, and manages MCP servers locally or in Kubernetes, with a gateway that aggregates multiple MCP servers into a unified interface. It also discovers, builds, distributes, installs, and manages Agent Skills for AI coding assistants.
Self-hosted
Traefik Hub MCP Gateway
Gateways & Proxies
MCP gateway in the Traefik Hub API platform with task-based access control
Self-hosted
TrueFoundry AI Gateway
Gateways & Proxies
Hosts stdio MCP servers behind the AI Gateway with centralized access, authentication, guardrails, and observability.
Hybrid
WSO2 MCP Gateway
Gateways & Proxies
Transforms existing APIs and OpenAPI definitions into managed MCP tools, and proxies existing MCP servers with governance, security, analytics, and lifecycle management.
Self-hosted