MCP Gateway
One Model Context Protocol endpoint for 139 tools across 16 MCP servers — public data APIs for research, finance, weather and software, billed at $0.0001 per tool call.
Connect an agent Browse the catalog API
- Tools
- 139
- MCP servers
- 16
- Per call
- $0.0001
- Subscription
- None
What is an MCP gateway?
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets an AI agent discover and call tools without bespoke integration code for each one. An MCP gateway sits in front of many MCP servers and gives an agent a single endpoint: it routes each tool call to the right upstream server, and handles the cross-cutting concerns — authentication, rate limiting, metering and billing — in one place rather than in every server.
Without a gateway, an agent that needs papers from arXiv, filings from SEC EDGAR and forecasts from the National Weather Service has to find, install, run and keep up to date three separate MCP servers, each with its own credentials and quota. With one, it connects once and calls any of them by name.
This gateway adds two things most do not: it meters every call so you pay only for what you use, and it verifies each provider's terms before listing it, so nothing here is served in breach of the upstream's rules.
MCP gateway pricing
$0.0001 per tool call. No subscription, no monthly minimum, no seat licence. Discovery is free: listing tools, reading this documentation and querying the registry never cost anything. You are charged only when a call reaches an upstream provider and comes back with a result, and a call that fails in transit is refunded automatically inside the same request.
Billing is prepaid credits drawn down per call, tracked in whole micro-dollars (1 µUSD = $0.000001) in an append-only ledger, so nothing is rounded away. A call your balance cannot cover is refused with HTTP 402 before any provider is contacted.
| Model | Typical cost | Commitment |
|---|---|---|
| This gateway | $0.0001 per call | None, prepaid credits |
| Subscription MCP servers | $19–$149 per month | Monthly, per server |
| Self-hosting | Your own infrastructure | Run and update each server |
How to connect
The gateway speaks MCP over Streamable HTTP and supports both the stateless
2026-07-28 revision and the older initialize handshake, so
current and older clients both work.
POST https://gateway.mcpharbor.dev/mcp
Authorization: Bearer <your gateway API key>
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json, text/event-stream
MCP-Protocol-Version: 2026-07-28
Point a client at https://gateway.mcpharbor.dev/mcp for every tool, or at
https://gateway.mcpharbor.dev/mcp/<server> to narrow it to one provider. The full connection,
billing and error-handling contract is in agent.txt, written for an
agent to read unaided.
MCP servers in this gateway
Every entry below is live right now. The list is generated from the catalog on each request, so a provider that has been delisted disappears from this page at the same moment it stops being routable.
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arXiv
Search arXiv preprints and open access scholarly papers: abstracts, authors, categories
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US Bureau of Labor Statistics
US Bureau of Labor Statistics: unemployment, inflation, CPI, wages and employment series
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Crossref
Crossref DOI metadata: citations, journals, funders, bibliometric and scholarly lookups
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Europe PMC
Europe PMC life science literature, open access full text index and clinical trials
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Frankfurter (ECB rates)
Currency conversion and exchange rates from European Central Bank reference data
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NASA Open APIs
NASA astronomy picture of the day and near-earth asteroid tracking from NeoWs
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NOAA Tides & Currents
NOAA tides and currents: tide predictions, water levels, sea level and marine buoy data
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npm Registry
Search the npm package registry: versions, dependencies, download stats and metadata
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US National Weather Service
US National Weather Service forecasts, severe weather alerts and station observations
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OpenAlex
OpenAlex scholarly graph: works, authors, institutions, citations, bibliometric analysis
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PubChem
PubChem chemistry: compound properties, molecule structures, SMILES, safety, bioassays
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PubMed
PubMed biomedical literature search: MeSH terms, citations, abstracts, clinical research
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PyPI
PyPI Python package registry search: versions, dependencies, downloads, compatibility
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US Treasury FiscalData
US Treasury fiscal data: national debt, interest rates, exchange rates, daily statements
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USGS Earthquakes
USGS earthquake catalog: seismic events, magnitude, real-time feeds and hazard data
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World Bank
World Bank development indicators: GDP, poverty, population, macroeconomic country data
The same catalog is served as a standard MCP Registry API, so other registries and clients can consume it with ordinary tooling.
Every provider's terms are checked first
An API is listed here only if its terms permit commercial use and permit us to call it on behalf of paying third parties. That rules a lot out: several of the best-known “open” APIs explicitly forbid this model — some require every end user to hold their own key, others name API resellers as prohibited, and several free tiers are licensed for non-commercial use only. Open content does not imply an open pipe.
Where terms permit part of an API but not the rest, the individual tools are excluded rather than the whole server. Each entry records the terms URL, the date we checked and the decisive clauses, and a verdict that goes stale is delisted automatically rather than being served on an assumption.
The verdict for every provider we evaluated, including the ones we rejected and why, is published in the per-server documentation and in the project's compliance record.
For agents and crawlers
- llms.txt — machine-readable index of the gateway and every server
- llms-full.txt — the same with every tool and its parameters inlined
- agent.txt — connect, authenticate, pay, retry and handle errors
- skill.txt — task recipes that chain tools, with the cost of each
- server.json — this gateway's own MCP registry entry
- /v0.1/servers — MCP Registry API over the catalog