The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the open standard for connecting LLMs to tools and data — and x402 lets you charge for each call. These projects add metering, paywalls and USDC settlement to MCP servers, so you can monetize the tools you expose to Claude and other agents. Paid MCP servers are one of the fastest-growing slices of the agent economy.
Below are the MCP payment projects tracked in the directory: paid tool servers, metering middleware, and marketplaces where agents discover paid tools.
The MCP category right now
Of the 328 MCP projects in the index, 15 have real traction (100+ stars) and 92 have none yet. agent-apprenticeship is the reference point at 1,321★. The median is 2★ — useful context before you pick a dependency from this list.
If you are choosing a stack, note that TypeScript (45%) and Python (21%) carry most of the MCP work, much of it from nirholas, azeth-protocol, bolivian-peru. Projects tag themselves with mcp, ai-agents, x402 more than anything else.
Freshness matters more than star count in a category this young: 146 projects shipped code in the last month, 200 in the last quarter, and 14 have not been touched in over a year. In short, this is an actively moving category. Newest addition: AgentFund (2026-07).
Figures recomputed from the tracked repositories on every build.
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