best of · updated August 2026

The 15 best Rust MCP servers

The 15 Rust MCP servers worth your time, out of 340 we track - actively maintained, with real adoption, ranked on monthly installs, GitHub stars, and commit recency. Checked nightly.

Rust servers are the performance wing of the ecosystem: fast startup, small memory footprints, and increasingly polished MCP crates underneath. A good pick when the server sits in a hot path or an embedded environment.

01 Dbx ★ 16,462 · commit 2026-08-25 Query databases from AI agents using connections configured in DBX. 33,367 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · needs 2 env vars $ npx -y @dbx-app/mcp-server 02 Sem ★ 3,309 · commit 2026-08-24 Entity-level code intelligence: semantic diff, impact analysis, blame, and context for AI agents 21,105 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · needs 1 env var $ npx -y @ataraxy-labs/sem 03 Dynoxide ★ 83 · commit 2026-08-24 DynamoDB-compatible database engine in Rust on SQLite, with an MCP server for coding agents. 29,862 installs/mo · 8 releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y dynoxide 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 Codescene MCP Server ★ 61 · commit 2026-08-18 The CodeScene MCP Server exposes CodeScene's Code Health analysis as local AI-friendly tools. 13,317 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y @codescene/codehealth-mcp 06 Remem ★ 27 · commit 2026-08-25 Language: English | 简体中文 remem is a single Rust binary that automatically captures, distills, searches, and injects project memory across Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Codex CLI sessions. 17,242 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · needs 1 env var $ npx -y @remem-ai/remem 07 Kin ★ 46 · commit 2026-08-25 The system of record for AI-written software. 6,872 installs/mo · 9 releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y @kinlab/kin-mcp 08 Code Index ★ 102 · commit 2026-08-23 Published on Infostart: Code Index - структурный поиск по выгрузке кода 1С через MCP. 5,532 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · needs 1 env var $ npx -y @regsorm/code-index-mcp 09 Argot ★ 59 · commit 2026-08-13 Read-only context and complete checks against patterns learned from git history. Local; no LLM. 11,205 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y @tmonier/argot 10 IWE ★ 1,571 · commit 2026-08-24 IWE turns a directory of markdown files into a knowledge graph - a connected structure you browse from your editor and your AI queries from the command line. 558 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y @iwe-org/mcp 11 Llmtrim ★ 216 · commit 2026-08-17 Local proxy that compresses LLM API traffic so you pay less. 4,254 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · needs 1 env var $ npx -y @llmtrim/cli 12 Vestige ★ 608 · commit 2026-08-20 Local-first long-term memory for AI agents, delivered over MCP. 651 installs/mo · 7 releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y vestige-mcp-server 13 Docdex ★ 17 · commit 2026-08-08 Docdex is a local-first indexer and search daemon for documentation and source code. 8,670 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · needs 1 env var $ npx -y docdex 14 Octocode ★ 452 · commit 2026-08-22 Give your AI assistant a brain for your codebase. 427 installs/mo · 7 tools documented · 10+ releases/90d · needs 5 env vars $ npx -y @muvon/octocode 15 Shodh Memory ★ 276 · commit 2026-08-24 Persistent cognitive memory for AI agents and robots - with no LLM in the loop. 449 installs/mo · 1 release/90d · needs 12 env vars $ npx -y @shodh/memory-mcp

How to choose between them

Dbx tops the list - the most installs (33,367 last month) and actively maintained. All 15 run locally as 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 Rust MCP server is most installed?

Dbx, with 33,367 installs in the last month (as of August 2026).

How many Rust MCP servers exist?

We track 340 MCP servers written in Rust, from our nightly GitHub enrichment of the official registry. The 15 above are the actively-maintained ones with real adoption - ranked by monthly installs, GitHub stars, and commit recency.

All 185 Rust 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 185, all of which you can see on this page. The other 155 we track have stopped being maintained, or nobody is using them yet. Full recipe: how we verify.