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Search the directory from Claude, Cursor, VS Code or your own code. Website for people, API for developers, MCP for agents.

Few Servers is a website for people, an API for developers and an MCP server for AI assistants. All three read the same data: 33,027 MCP servers from the official MCP Registry (read 10 Oct 2026; 894 have their own page) and 41 server providers (facts read from each company's own pages, latest 12 Oct 2026).

What you get, and what you do not

  • Only fields we hold. Descriptions are the publisher's own text. Install details are what the registry record says. Provider facts carry source_url, read_date and the quoted text.
  • Dates on everything. read_date and last_seen say when we read a fact. Quote the date when you repeat a price or a star count.
  • No ratings, no security score, no "best". Being listed is not a safety check. tested is true only for the 3 servers we installed and ran ourselves. github_stars is GitHub's number for the publisher's own repository, read on the date shown.
  • Free for now. Basic search is free with a rate limit. If that ever changes, this page will say so first.

MCP server

Endpoint: https://www.fewservers.com/api/mcp/ (Streamable HTTP, stateless, no sign-in).

ToolWhat it does
search_mcp_serversSearch by words, category, transport, vendor's own, tested by us.
get_server_detailsEverything we hold for one server.
get_install_instructionsInstall details as published in the registry record.
find_alternativesOther servers in the same category, by a stated sort rule.
search_server_providersProviders by product type, country and lowest listed monthly price.
get_provider_detailsOne provider's profile, each fact with source and read date.
submit_listingSend a new MCP server to the moderated queue.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http fewservers https://www.fewservers.com/api/mcp/

Claude (claude.ai and Claude Desktop)

Open Customize, then Connectors, choose Add custom connector, give it a name such as Few Servers and paste https://www.fewservers.com/api/mcp/ as the remote MCP server URL. No sign-in is needed. On Team and Enterprise plans an owner adds it under Organization settings, then Connectors. Menu names as in Anthropic's help article, read 12 Oct 2026; which plans can add custom connectors is listed there.

Cursor

Add this to .cursor/mcp.json in a project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json for every project (Cursor's MCP docs, read 12 Oct 2026):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fewservers": {
      "url": "https://www.fewservers.com/api/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Add this to .vscode/mcp.json in a workspace (VS Code's MCP docs, read 12 Oct 2026):

{
  "servers": {
    "fewservers": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.fewservers.com/api/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

Any other client

Send JSON-RPC 2.0 messages with POST to the endpoint. Each request gets one JSON answer; there is no session and no event stream.

curl -s https://www.fewservers.com/api/mcp/ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_mcp_servers","arguments":{"query":"postgres","limit":3}}}'

submit_listing goes to the same moderated queue as the submit form. If the queue is not open for MCP submissions, the tool says so and stores nothing.

JSON API

Base: https://www.fewservers.com/api/v1/. GET only, JSON, CORS open. Paths end with a slash (the form without it answers with a redirect). The machine-readable description is at /api/v1/openapi.json.

Search MCP servers. q, category, transport (remote or local), official, tested, limit (up to 25), offset.

curl -s 'https://www.fewservers.com/api/v1/mcp/search/?q=postgres&transport=local&limit=5'

One server, by slug or registry name.

curl -s 'https://www.fewservers.com/api/v1/mcp/servers/io.github.upstash/context7/'

Install details, as published in the registry record.

curl -s 'https://www.fewservers.com/api/v1/mcp/servers/io-github-upstash-context7/install/'

Alternatives: other servers in the same category. The order is a stated rule, not a recommendation: tested by us first, then the vendor's own servers, then GitHub stars.

curl -s 'https://www.fewservers.com/api/v1/mcp/servers/io-github-upstash-context7/alternatives/?limit=5'

Search providers. type (cloud-vps, dedicated, bare-metal, gpu, colocation, hardware-vendor, managed-hosting, edge-cdn), country (name or two-letter code), max_price (lowest listed monthly price, as listed in USD or EUR, not converted).

curl -s 'https://www.fewservers.com/api/v1/providers/search/?type=cloud-vps&country=DE&max_price=10'

One provider.

curl -s 'https://www.fewservers.com/api/v1/providers/hetzner/'

Categories for category: databases, cloud-devops, monitoring, dev-tools, browser-web, ai-memory, productivity, communication, finance-crypto, data-analytics, security, marketing-sales, commerce, media-design, files-storage, location-gov, health-education, other.

Limits and privacy

  • 60 requests a minute per address, for the API and for the MCP server. Over the limit you get HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header. The limit is counted in memory on each server instance, so treat it as a ceiling, not a quota.
  • API answers are cached for up to an hour. The data changes when we rebuild the site, normally once a day.
  • No cookies. No IP address is stored. For MCP calls we log the tool name and the time, nothing about the arguments.
  • Errors are JSON: {"error": {"code": "...", "message": "..."}} with 400, 404, 405 or 429.

Use and attribution

Use the data in your own tools. When you show it to people, link the listing (listing_url) and keep the read date next to prices and counts. MCP server records come from the official MCP Registry; provider facts link to the page they were read on.

Add or fix a listing

Submit your MCP server, add a provider, or claim a listing from its page. Free, and a person reviews it before it is published. Questions: hello@fewservers.com.