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.
Aiera
Earnings events, transcripts, filings
Scholar Gateway
Peer-reviewed research, citations
Aura
Company intelligence & workforce analytics
Clipia.ai
Hosted MCP server for generating AI images, videos, speech, and music from agents and IDEs. Supports OAuth and Clipia API keys.
HubSpot
CRM objects, records, HubSpot data
Synthesize Bio
Generate gene expression from a virtual human
Gusto
Payroll, benefits, people data
S&P Global
Capital IQ financials, market data
Honeycomb
Query and explore observability data and SLOs
D&B Risk Analytics
Execute risk workflows powered by the D&B Commercial Graph™
Ironclad Contracts
Plain language search for faster contract answers
Calendly
Scheduling, events, availability
Guidepoint
Real-time access to trusted expert knowledge
Tavily
Connect your AI agents to the web
Eraser
Generate, manage, and update Eraser diagrams and files
Hex
Answer questions with the Hex agent
Cloudflare
Workers, D1, R2, DNS, account APIs
Third Bridge
Expert-led enhanced insights
Solve Intelligence
Search, draft, and chart patents
Twilio
Build powerful communications and customer engagement
Strava
Activities, fitness trends, training load, and goals
PitchBook
Private market intelligence
Yahoo Finance
Stock data, market news, financials, and price history
Explorium
B2B prospecting, data enrichment
Morningstar
Investment research and data
Xero
Access your Xero financials from any conversation
Docusign
Agreements, envelopes, signing
ClickUp
Project management & collaboration for teams & agents
Brex
Expenses, cards, spend data
Udemy Business
Courses and learning content
Klaviyo
Marketing campaigns, profiles, analytics
Bigdata.com
Access real-time financial data
Canva
Designs, assets, exports, comments
Google Cloud BigQuery
BigQuery: Advanced analytical insights for agents
Atlassian
Jira, Confluence, Compass
Spotify
Music and podcast recommendations, just for you.
Stripe
Payments, billing, customers, Stripe docs
Dmitry Sadchikov
AI legal copilot for foreigners in Spain: immigration (extranjería) and housing rental, cited to Spanish law.
Crossbeam
Explore partner data and ecosystem insights in Claude
Real-time flight search for Claude and any MCP client. Ask for flights by origin, destination, dates, passengers, and cabin class — results come back categorized as best, cheapest, and fastest, each with price, full itin
Moody's
Credit ratings and risk data
Privacy.com
Manage virtual cards and track your spending patterns
Viator
Book travel experiences around the world
PlanetScale
Authenticated access to your Postgres and MySQL DBs
Airwallex
Integrate with the Airwallex Platform using Claude
Trivago
Find your ideal hotel at the best price.
Asana
Tasks, projects, workspaces
Stanly.Jin
Professional chemical engineering simulation with 11 tools
Send
Create shareable documents, one-pagers, and decks
Tripadvisor
Find your perfect hotel based on Tripadvisor reviews
Booking.com
Find hotels, homes and more
BoardWise
Calm board-defense guidance for licensed pros.
Excalidraw
MCP for creating interactive hand-drawn diagrams in Excalidraw
Fathom
Your meetings, now part of every Claude conversation
Melon
Browse music charts & your personalized music picks
Kiwi.com
Flight search and travel
Carta
The connected ERP for private capital
SurveyMonkey
Design surveys, collect responses, and analyze results
Hugging Face
Access the HF Hub and thousands of Gradio Apps
IBISWorld
Financials, risk data and analysis on 50,000 industries
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.