Menu

Explorer & Settings

Tempo Explorer Submit Project
Protocols · MCP

MCP Payment Servers & Tools

Charge AI agents per tool call on the Model Context Protocol.

328
MCP projects
1.3k
most-starred
146
updated in 30 days

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.

How to charge for an MCP server →

Compare: MCP payments · All agent payment protocols

Core MCP projects

Projects whose main focus is MCP — ranked by stars within the category, not by global popularity. Showing 42 of 58.

Also matching MCP

Broader projects that support MCP without being built solely around it.

Every other MCP project we track (113)

The remaining tracked projects in this category, with a full profile page each.

aixyz 82★agentanycast 77★use-agently 71★agenti 71★join.cloud 67★awesome-molt-ecosystem 61★create-8004-agent 51★codex-claude-bridge 51★tweazy 48★AgenticDeFi-Trainer 43★suede-creator-skills 39★darwin-agentic-cloud 34★agentic-commerce-skills-plugins 34★vaaya-mcp 30★summoner-agents 24★t2000 23★awesome-a2a-libraries 23★x402-deploy 23★ampersend-sdk 23★agoragentic-integrations 23★a2a-demos 23★EEP 22★run402 22★red-team-blue-team-agent-fabric 20★tap 20★sperax-crypto-mcp 16★the-academy 15★asgcard-public 15★tdm-integration-kit 13★TDM-Agent-Integration-Kit 13★peac 13★remlo 13★chaingpt-claude-skill 12★x402-stablecoin 12★voidly-pay 11★botwallet 11★kudosflow 10★aibtc-mcp-server 10★dexter-mcp 10★solx402-mcp-server 10★x402-proxy 10★tael-protocol 9★inflow-cli 9★rail402-mcp 9★agent-payment-protocols 9★xcatcher-mcp-manifest 9★mcp-server-bloomfilter 9★ag402 9★lightning-wallet-mcp 9★APIbase 9★froglet 8★dcp 8★meridian-intelligence 8★onit 8★piprail 7★awesome-agent-protocols 7★sardis 7★quantoracle 7★trustchain 7★AI_Agent_School 7★mcp-x402 7★erc8004-agents 7★kamiyo-protocol 7★x402-fpl-api 7★Agent402 6★APIMesh 6★mono 6★mnemopay-sdk 6★mcp-go-x402 6★boltzpay 6★payflow 6★x402-mcp-middleware 6★openclaw-a2a-bridge 6★conway 6★bde-score 5★x402-payments-mcp 5★magpie-x402 5★image-analysis-mcp 5★AgentFund 5★crypto-quant-signal-mcp 5★gold-402 5★skill-audit-mcp 5★moltpe-agent-payments 5★agent-discovery-mcp 5★mcpagent 5★dolphinmilk 5★APITOLL 5★a2a-deep-research 5★scuttlepay 5★studiomcphub 5★autonomous-agent 4★x402-app-template 4★anybrowse 4★SafeLink 4★agentstore 4★ORBEXA 4★execution-market 4★dexter-agents 3★1ly-mcp-server 3★mcp 3★pinion-os 3★402index-mcp-server 3★x402-api-server 3★monapi 3★instadomain-mcp 3★awesome-agent-economy 3★agentwallet-mcp 3★x402-discovery-mcp 3★mcp-server 3★askclaude-mcp 3★knowmint 3★shopgraph 3★MPP-Inspector 3★

More protocols categories

x402MPPAP2ACPA2AL402 All categories →

Frequently asked questions

Which MCP projects are worth using in 2026?

Start with agent-apprenticeship (1,321★), the most-adopted project in this category. Of the 328 MCP projects tracked here, 15 have 100+ stars and 200 shipped a commit in the last 90 days — that intersection is the shortlist worth evaluating. The grid above puts the MCP-focused projects first rather than whatever is globally popular.

How active is the MCP ecosystem right now?

146 of 328 projects were updated in the last 30 days (45%), 200 in the last 90, and 14 have not seen a commit in over a year. The newest project in the category, AgentFund, appeared in 2026-07. Star counts and commit dates on this page are refreshed from GitHub continuously.

What language should I use to build MCP payments?

TypeScript (147), Python (70), JavaScript (48), Rust (7) are the languages actually represented in this category, so TypeScript has the deepest set of working references. Pick the language your agent runtime already uses — the x402 flow itself is plain HTTP, so no language locks you out.

How does this MCP list stay current?

Repositories are discovered from GitHub, classified into MCP automatically, and re-crawled for stars, language and last-commit data. Thin or duplicated repositories are kept out of search results by a quality gate, so this page lists the 328 projects that actually matched MCP, with the background explained in the MCP guide.