What is a remote MCP server?
A remote MCP server runs over HTTP/SSE instead of a local process — you point your client at a URL instead of installing and running anything on your own machine.
Official hosted MCP endpoints from SaaS providers — connect directly, no install required.
Outreach
Unleash your team's best performance with Outreach AI
Square
Search and manage transaction, merchant, and payment data
AWS Marketplace
Discover, evaluate, and buy solutions for the cloud
pg-aiguide
Search pg and Tiger docs, learn database skills
GitHub
GitHub's official MCP Server
Metaview
The AI platform for recruiting.
Close
CRM leads, calls, pipelines
iManage Work
Governed knowledge. AI ready.
Courtroom5
Civil legal guidance for self-represented litigants
Sentry
Search, query, and debug errors intelligently
Consensus
Explore scientific research
Goodnotes
Turn AI insights into documents
Krisp
Add your meetings context via transcripts and notes
Ramp Data
Search and analyze Ramp spend across 50,000+ businesses
Polar Analytics
Bring all your data in one place & connect it to Claude
incident.io
Incidents, on-call, follow-ups
GoCardless
Build GoCardless payment API integrations
Kindora Funder Discovery
Find funders who support causes like yours
Fiscal.ai
Clean Public Equity Fundamental Data
Remote MCP server available at https://mcp.linklyhq.com.
Ketryx
Search and explore regulated software lifecycle data
Todoist
Search, complete, and manage your tasks in Todoist
Clay
Prospecting, enrichment, GTM workflows
AllTrails
Find your next hike
OpenRouter
Models, pricing, credits, test prompts
Scite
Evidence-based answers grounded in research
Verisk XactRestore
Natural-language estimating for XactRestore
InvestSights
InvestSights Indian Stock Research MCP is a remote MCP server available at https://investsights.in.
Razorpay
Payments, orders, settlements
Dovetail
Turn feedback into decisions
Mixpanel
Analyze, query, and manage your Mixpanel data
WordPress.com
Secure AI access to manage your WordPress.com sites
Datasite
Manage your M&A data room from Claude
Zoom
Meetings, recordings, summaries
Grain
Turn meetings into insights and next steps in Claude
Magic Patterns
Discuss and iterate on Magic Patterns designs
CourtListener
Legal research across millions of court records
Malwarebytes
Check links, phones, and emails for scams
tldraw
Diagrams and whiteboards
Verisk Underwriting Intelligence
Ask questions. Get underwriting insights from Verisk.
Jam
Record screen and collect automatic context for issues
Slack
Messages, channels, users, canvases
Similarweb
Real time web, mobile app, and market data.
Clerk
Add authentication, organizations, and billing
Local Falcon
AI visibility and local search intelligence platform
Granted
Discover every grant opportunity in existence.
Granola
The AI notepad for meetings
CB Insights
Predictive intelligence on private companies
BioRender
Scientific figures, illustrations
Contentsquare
Experience analytics platform for digital businesses
Longbridge
Market data, portfolio, and trading
ZipRecruiter
Job search made easy
Lorikeet
A universal concierge for complex businesses
CoinDesk
Access Live & Historical Crypto Data, Indices
Airtable
Bring your structured data to Claude
Quartr
Financial data and AI infrastructure for company research.
Credit Karma
Credit scores, financial insights
Open Targets
Drug target discovery data
Aurora
Search your Consilio matters, docs, and more.
Blockscout
Access and analyze blockchain data
Common questions about hosted and remote MCP servers
A remote MCP server runs over HTTP/SSE instead of a local process — you point your client at a URL instead of installing and running anything on your own machine.
A local server runs on your machine and needs a runtime like Node.js or Python. A remote server is hosted by a third party — you just need a URL (and sometimes an API key) to connect, which is simpler to set up but depends on the provider staying online.
Your data passes through the provider's infrastructure, so stick to servers run by official or well-known teams that document how they handle data, and grant sensitive permissions carefully.
Add the server URL in a client that supports remote MCP, then configure OAuth, an API key, or request headers as required by the provider. Streamable HTTP, SSE, and authentication support vary by client, so follow both the server page and client documentation.
Yes. Calls depend on network access, provider uptime, and rate limits. For important workflows, check the provider's status page, timeout and retry behavior, quotas, and fallback options.
Yes, when the client supports the server's remote transport and authentication method. Newer clients commonly support Streamable HTTP, while older versions may only support SSE or local stdio, so verify version compatibility first.