Awesome MCP Clients

A curated list of awesome Model Context Protocol (MCP) clients.

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What is MCP?

MCP is an open protocol that enables AI models to securely interact with local and remote resources through standardized server implementations. This list focuses on production-ready and experimental MCP servers that extend AI capabilities through file access, database connections, API integrations, and other contextual services.

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Clients

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    • 5ire
    • ChatMCP
    • Claude Desktop
    • ClaudeMind
    • Cline
    • console-chat-gpt
    • Cursor
    • Continue
    • Goose
    • HyperChat
    • kibitz
    • LibreChat
    • MCP Chatbot
    • MCP CLI client
    • oterm
    • Superinterface
    • Tester MCP Client
    • Zed
  • Servers

5ire

<table> <tr><th align="left">GitHub</th><td>https://github.com/nanbingxyz/5ire</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Website</th><td>https://5ire.app/</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">License</th><td>GNU v3</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Type</th><td>Desktop app</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Platforms</th><td>Windows, MacOS</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Pricing</th><td>Free</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Programming Languages</th><td>TypeScript</td></tr> </table>

5ire is a cross-platform desktop AI assistant, MCP client. It compatible with major service providers, supports local knowledge base and tools via model context protocol servers.

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ChatMCP

<table> <tr><th align="left">GitHub</th><td>https://github.com/daodao97/chatmcp</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Website</th><td>-</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">License</th><td>Apache 2.0</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Type</th><td>Desktop app</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Platforms</th><td>Windows, MacOS, Linux</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Pricing</th><td>Free</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Programming Languages</th><td>Dart</td></tr> </table>

ChatMCP is an AI chat client implementing the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

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Claude Desktop

<table> <tr><th align="left">GitHub</th><td>-</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Website</th><td>https://claude.ai/download</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">License</th><td>Proprietary</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Type</th><td>Desktop app</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Platforms</th><td>Windows, MacOS</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Pricing</th><td>Free</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Programming Languages</th><td>-</td></tr> </table>

The Claude desktop app brings Claude's capabilities directly to your computer, allowing for seamless integration with your workflow.

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ClaudeMind

<table> <tr><th align="left">GitHub</th><td>-</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Website</th><td>https://claudemind.com/</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">License</th><td>Proprietary</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Type</th><td>Desktop app, JetBrains extension</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Platforms</th><td>Windows, MacOS</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Pricing</th><td>Per seat (from $29)</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Programming Languages</th><td>-</td></tr> </table>

Experience Claude AI without limits. Use our desktop app for everyday AI assistance, or boost your coding productivity with our JetBrains plugin.

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Cline

<table> <tr><th align="left">GitHub</th><td>https://github.com/cline/cline</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Website</th><td>https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=saoudrizwan.claude-dev</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">License</th><td>Apache 2.0</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Type</th><td>VSCode extension</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Platforms</th><td>Windows, MacOS</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Pricing</th><td>Free</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Programming Languages</th><td>TypeScript</td></tr> </table>

Cline can handle complex software development tasks step-by-step. With tools that let him create & edit files, explore large projects, use the browser, and execute terminal commands (after you grant permission), he can assist you in ways that go beyond code completion or tech support. Cline can even use the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to create new tools and extend his own capabilities. While autonomous AI scripts traditionally run in sandboxed environments, this extension provides a human-in-the-loop GUI to approve every file change and terminal command, providing a safe and accessible way to explore the potential of agentic AI.

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console-chat-gpt

<table> <tr><th align="left">GitHub</th><td>https://github.com/amidabuddha/console-chat-gpt</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Website</th><td>-</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">License</th><td>MIT</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Type</th><td>CLI</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Platforms</th><td>Windows, MacOS, Linux</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Pricing</th><td>Free</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Programming Languages</th><td>Python</td></tr> </table>

Enjoy seamless interactions with ChatGPT, MistralAI, Claude by Anthropic, Grok by xAI, Gemini by Google and DeepSeek directly from your command line. Elevate your chat experience with efficiency and ease.

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Cursor

<table> <tr><th align="left">GitHub</th><td>https://github.com/getcursor/cursor</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Website</th><td>https://cursor.com</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">License</th><td>Proprietary</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Type</th><td>Desktop app</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Platforms</th><td>Windows, MacOS, Linux</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Pricing</th><td>Freemium</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Programming Languages</th><td>TypeScript</td></tr> </table>

Cursor is an AI-first code editor fork of VS Code that helps you code faster with built-in chat, edit, and debugging AI features. It supports MCP for enhanced AI capabilities and tool integration.

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Continue

<table> <tr><th align="left">GitHub</th><td>https://github.com/continuedev/continue</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Website</th><td>https://continue.dev/</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">License</th><td>Apache 2.0</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Type</th><td>VSCode extension, JetBrains extension</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Platforms</th><td>Windows, MacOS</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Pricing</th><td>Free</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Programming Languages</th><td>TypeScript</td></tr> </table>

Continue is the leading open-source AI code assistant. You can connect any models and any context to build custom autocomplete and chat experiences inside VS Code and JetBrains.

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Goose

<table> <tr><th align="left">GitHub</th><td>https://github.com/block/goose</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Website</th><td>-</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">License</th><td>Apache 2.0</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Type</th><td>AI Agent</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Platforms</th><td>MacOS, Linux</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Pricing</th><td>Free</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Programming Languages</th><td>Rust</td></tr> </table>

Goose is a general-purpose AI agent that can dynamically plug into new extensions and learn how to use them. It solves higher-level problems using tools from multiple extensions and can interact with multiple extensions at once.

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HyperChat

<table> <tr><th align="left">GitHub</th><td>https://github.com/BigSweetPotatoStudio/HyperChat</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Website</th><td>-</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">License</th><td>Apache 2.0<a href="https://github.com/BigSweetPotatoStudio/HyperChat/blob/main/LICENSE">*</a></td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Type</th><td>Desktop app</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Platforms</th><td>Windows, MacOS</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Pricing</th><td>Free</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Programming Languages</th><td>JavaScript</td></tr> </table>

HyperChat is an open Chat client that can use various LLM APIs to provide the best Chat experience and implement productivity tools through the MCP protocol.

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kibitz

<table> <tr><th align="left">GitHub</th><td>https://github.com/nick1udwig/kibitz</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Website</th><td>https://kibi.tz</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">License</th><td>MIT</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Type</th><td>Mobile app, Desktop app</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Platforms</th><td>Mobile, Windows, MacOS, Linux</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Pricing</th><td>Free</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Programming Languages</th><td>TypeScript</td></tr> </table>

kibitiz is the free and open-source Replit. Minimally, it is a lightweight chat interface to the popular LLM APIs (Anthropic and OpenAI API formats supported). Experience automated tool loops: try asking your agent to use wcgw to make a change to a local repository, then fix linter and compiler errors, make a commit, and push to remote, all without user intervention! Even better, code on-the-go by setting up MCP servers on your laptop, then connecting from your mobile through Kinode.

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LibreChat

<table> <tr><th align="left">GitHub</th><td>https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Website</th><td>https://www.librechat.ai/</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">License</th><td>MIT license</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Type</th><td>Web app</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Platforms</th><td>-</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Pricing</th><td>Free</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Programming Languages</th><td>TypeScript</td></tr> </table>

Enhanced ChatGPT Clone: Features Agents, Anthropic, AWS, OpenAI, Assistants API, Azure, Groq, o1, GPT-4o, Mistral, OpenRouter, Vertex AI, Gemini, Artifacts, AI model switching, message search, Code Interpreter, langchain, DALL-E-3, OpenAPI Actions, Functions, Secure Multi-User Auth, Presets, open-source for self-hosting.

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MCP Chatbot

<table> <tr><th align="left">GitHub</th><td>https://github.com/3choff/mcp-chatbot</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Website</th><td>-</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">License</th><td>MIT</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Type</th><td>CLI</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Platforms</th><td>Windows, MacOS, Linux</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Pricing</th><td>Free</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Programming Languages</th><td>Python</td></tr> </table>

This chatbot example demonstrates how to integrate the Model Context Protocol (MCP) into a simple CLI chatbot. The implementation showcases MCP's flexibility by supporting multiple tools through MCP servers and is compatible with any LLM provider that follows OpenAI API standards.

MCP CLI client

<table> <tr><th align="left">GitHub</th><td>https://github.com/adhikasp/mcp-client-cli</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Website</th><td>-</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">License</th><td>MIT</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Type</th><td>CLI</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Platforms</th><td>Windows, MacOS, Linux</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Pricing</th><td>Free</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Programming Languages</th><td>Python</td></tr> </table>

A simple CLI to run LLM prompt and implement MCP client.

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oterm

<table> <tr><th align="left">GitHub</th><td>https://github.com/ggozad/oterm</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Website</th><td>-</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">License</th><td>MIT</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Type</th><td>CLI</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Platforms</th><td>Windows, MacOS, Linux</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Pricing</th><td>Free</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Programming Languages</th><td>Python</td></tr> </table>

A terminal client for Ollama, with support for MCP servers.

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Superinterface

<table> <tr><th align="left">GitHub</th><td>https://github.com/supercorp-ai/superinterface</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Website</th><td>https://superinterface.ai</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">License</th><td>Proprietary</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Type</th><td>Web app</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Platforms</th><td>Web</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Pricing</th><td>Freemium</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Programming Languages</th><td>TypeScript</td></tr> </table>

Superinterface is AI infrastructure and a developer platform to build in-app AI assistants with support for MCP, interactive components, client-side function calling and more.

Key features:

• Use tools from MCP servers in assistants embedded via React components or script tags
• SSE transport support
• Use any AI model from any AI provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, others)

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Tester MCP Client

<table> <tr><th align="left">GitHub</th><td>https://github.com/apify/tester-mcp-client</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Website</th><td>https://apify.com/jiri.spilka/tester-mcp-client</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">License</th><td>Apache 2.0</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Type</th><td>Web app</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Platforms</th><td>Web</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Pricing</th><td>Freemium</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Programming Languages</th><td>JavaScript</td></tr> </table>

A client that connects to any MCP server using Server-Sent Events (SSE) and displays conversations in a chat-like UI.
It is a standalone Apify Actor for testing MCP servers over SSE, with support for Authorization headers.
Built with plain JavaScript (old-school style) and hosted on Apify, it requires no setup to run.

Key features:

• Connects to any MCP server via Server-Sent Events (SSE).
• Works with the Apify MCP Server to interact with one or more Apify Actors.
• Dynamically utilizes tools based on context and user queries (if supported by the server).
• Open-source—review, suggest improvements, or modify as needed.

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Zed

<table> <tr><th align="left">GitHub</th><td>https://github.com/zed-industries/zed</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Website</th><td>https://zed.dev/</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">License</th><td>GNU</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Type</th><td>Desktop app</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Platforms</th><td>Windows, MacOS, Linux</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Pricing</th><td>Free</td></tr> <tr><th align="left">Programming Languages</th><td>Rust</td></tr> </table>

Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

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Servers

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