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The 15 best media MCP servers

The 15 media MCP servers worth your time, out of 894 we track - actively maintained, with real adoption, ranked on monthly installs, GitHub stars, and commit recency. Checked nightly.

Media MCP servers handle images, audio, or video generation and inspection. Differentiate on local versus API-backed models and any paid upstream keys.

01 Comfyui MCP ★ 671 · commit 2026-08-25 The Agent panel driving ComfyUI end to end - reading what is installed locally, wiring the graph, freeing VRAM, and running the render. 374,183 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · needs 1 env var $ npx -y comfyui-mcp 02 Claude Real Video ★ 2,061 · commit 2026-08-22 ▶ The 60-second pixel film - sound on (mp4 on GitHub) · an AI agent searches "how can an LLM truly understand video?", finds a key, and unlocks vision. 6,952 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ uvx claude-real-video 03 Voicemode ★ 1,337 · commit 2026-08-09 VoiceMode enables natural voice conversations with Claude Code. 12,841 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · needs 2 env vars $ uvx voice-mode 04 Kinocut ★ 124 · commit 2026-08-20 Guardrailed video editing MCP server for AI agents. 21,495 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ uvx kinocut 05 Image ★ 155 · commit 2026-08-23 This MCP server turns a plain-language request into an image file. 13,393 installs/mo · 7 releases/90d · needs 6 env vars $ npx -y mcp-image 06 Video ★ 124 · commit 2026-08-20 Guardrailed video editing MCP server for AI agents. 10,661 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ uvx mcp-video 07 Pdf MCP ★ 117 · commit 2026-08-24 Surgical PDF access for AI agents: search, read, and extract without flooding context. 8,386 installs/mo · 13 tools documented · 10+ releases/90d · needs 1 env var $ uvx pdf-mcp 08 Yutu ★ 620 · commit 2026-08-23 The AI-powered toolkit that grows your YouTube channel on autopilot 869 installs/mo · 2 releases/90d · needs 2 env vars $ npx -y @eat-pray-ai/yutu 09 Watch Skill ★ 311 · commit 2026-08-24 Give every AI agent eyes for video - and a way to check its own work. 1,329 installs/mo · 3 releases/90d · no env vars documented $ uvx watch-skill 10 Runapi MCP ★ 55 · commit 2026-08-25 AI image generation, video generation, music creation, text-to-speech, prompt search, and model discovery - 160+ executable models across 4 modalities in one MCP server. 3,300 installs/mo · 9 tools documented · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y @runapi.ai/mcp 11 Applemusic MCP ★ 86 · commit 2026-08-23 Apple Music MCP server: playlists, library, catalog, playback and Up Next, on Mac/Windows/Linux. 2,354 installs/mo · 7 tools documented · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ uvx applemusic-mcp 12 Suno ★ 44 · commit 2026-08-23 A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for AI music generation using Suno through the AceDataCloud API. 2,916 installs/mo · 28 tools documented · 10+ releases/90d · needs 1 env var $ uvx mcp-suno 13 Gongio MCP ★ 21 · commit 2026-08-24 An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that provides access to your Gong.io data. 4,295 installs/mo · 1 release/90d · needs 2 env vars $ npx -y gongio-mcp 14 Livepilot ★ 63 · commit 2026-08-21 317-tool agentic MCP production system for Ableton Live 12 - device atlas, sample engine, composer 2,106 installs/mo · 6 releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y livepilot 15 Nanobanana MCP Server ★ 393 · commit 2026-05-18 A production-ready Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides AI-powered image generation capabilities through Google's Gemini models with intelligent model selection. 13,197 installs/mo · needs 9 env vars $ uvx nanobanana-mcp-server

How to choose between them

Comfyui MCP tops the list - the most installs (374,183 last month) and actively maintained. 2 of these 15 offer a remote endpoint (no local process to run); the rest are local stdio servers. 7 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 media MCP server is most installed?

Comfyui MCP, with 374,183 installs in the last month (as of August 2026). By GitHub stars the leader is Claude Real Video (2,061).

How many media MCP servers exist?

We track 894 media 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 155 media 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 155, all of which you can see on this page. The other 739 we track have stopped being maintained, or nobody is using them yet. Full recipe: how we verify.