best of · updated August 2026

The 15 best AI & ML MCP servers

The 15 AI & ML MCP servers worth your time, out of 304 we track - actively maintained, with real adoption, ranked on monthly installs, GitHub stars, and commit recency. Checked nightly.

AI & ML MCP servers connect agents to model providers, vector stores, and inference or evaluation tooling. Check whether a server targets model serving, retrieval, or experiment tracking, since the category spans the full machine-learning lifecycle.

01 Local RAG (shinpr) ★ 371 · commit 2026-08-23 Search private documents from an MCP client or the terminal without sending them to an embedding API. 13,923 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · needs 3 env vars $ npx -y mcp-local-rag 02 DeepSeek MCP Server ★ 350 · commit 2026-08-19 Model Context Protocol server for the current DeepSeek V4 API. 10,094 installs/mo · 6 tools documented · 1 release/90d · needs 12 env vars $ npx -y deepseek-mcp-server 03 Airweave Search ★ 6,564 · commit 2026-06-05 Open-source context retrieval layer for AI agents and RAG systems. 6,559 installs/mo · 2 releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y airweave-mcp-search 04 Ruv Swarm ★ 378 · commit 2026-08-09 Neural network swarm orchestration with WebAssembly acceleration and MCP integration 20,015 installs/mo · no env vars documented $ npx -y ruv-swarm 05 Haiku RAG ★ 584 · commit 2026-08-24 Agentic RAG that answers questions about your own documents with citations to page numbers and section headings. 5,977 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ uvx haiku-rag 06 Visual Torch ★ 327 · commit 2026-08-25 VisualTorch aims to help visualize Torch-based neural network architectures. 2,581 installs/mo · 8 releases/90d · no env vars documented $ uvx visualtorch 07 Fun ASR ★ 20,003 · commit 2026-08-24 Transcribe local audio with FunASR and SenseVoice using private, on-device inference. 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/modelscope/funasr-mcp:0.1.2 08 Visual Memory MCP ★ 61 · commit 2026-08-20 Local visual UI cache for AI agents using perceptual hashing + CLIP to cut vision token use. 6,474 installs/mo · 1 release/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y @putervision/vision-memory-mcp 09 Claude Prompts MCP ★ 186 · commit 2026-08-25 The portable workflow layer beside your AI coding harness. 2,132 installs/mo · 9 releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y claude-prompts 10 Evalview MCP ★ 129 · commit 2026-08-23 Regression testing for AI agents. Golden baselines, CI/CD, LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI, Claude. 2,320 installs/mo · 1 release/90d · no env vars documented $ uvx evalview 11 Terradev ★ 25 · commit 2026-08-25 Cross-cloud GPU infrastructure and training pipeline CLI for SFT, DPO, GRPO, and multi-stage LLM training orchestration. 4,102 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ uvx terradev-cli 12 Dashclaw ★ 295 · commit 2026-08-22 When your AI coding agent tries something destructive, DashClaw catches it before it runs and asks you first, even when you are not at the keyboard. 686 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · needs 2 env vars $ npx -y @dashclaw/mcp-server 13 Freellmpool ★ 85 · commit 2026-08-23 OpenAI-compatible MCP gateway pooling 24 LLM providers with routing, failover, quota, and tools. 854 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · needs 8 env vars $ uvx freellmpool 14 Metaplex Agent Registry ★ 102 · commit 2026-08-24 Deploy AI agents on-chain into the Metaplex Agent Registry on Solana, from any MCP client. 651 installs/mo · 9 tools documented · needs 1 env var $ npx -y @three-ws/metaplex-agent-mcp 15 Auto TS ★ 1,430 · commit 2026-08-23 AutoTS is a time series package for Python designed for rapidly deploying high-accuracy forecasts at scale. 105 installs/mo · 1 release/90d · no env vars documented $ uvx autots-mcp

How to choose between them

Local RAG (shinpr) ranks #1 on the installs + stars + recency blend; Ruv Swarm has the most raw installs (20,015 last month) if adoption is all you weigh. 1 of these 15 offers a remote endpoint (no local process to run); the rest are local stdio servers. 10 document no required env vars - paste the config and go; the others need env vars set first (each page lists exactly which). Where we've compared two of these head-to-head, the comparison is linked on each one's page.

Quick answers

Which AI & ML MCP server is most installed?

Ruv Swarm, with 20,015 installs in the last month (as of August 2026). By GitHub stars the leader is Fun ASR (20,003).

How many AI & ML MCP servers exist?

We track 304 AI & ML MCP servers in the official registry. The 15 above are the actively-maintained ones with real adoption - ranked by monthly installs, GitHub stars, and commit recency.

All 94 AI & ML MCP servers

Ranked 16 onward, same order as above. Status checked last night.

How this list is ranked

Ranked from live registry + GitHub data: monthly installs (npm/PyPI), GitHub stars, and commit recency - recomputed nightly. No pay-to-rank, ever. The 15 above lead the full list of 94, all of which you can see on this page. The other 210 we track have stopped being maintained, or nobody is using them yet. Full recipe: how we verify.