Memory MCP alternatives

Official Chrome DevTools MCP — control and inspect a live Chrome from a coding agent.

freeApache-2.0; npx chrome-devtools-mcp@latest; Node 22+ and a current Chrome

Upstash Context7 — current library docs in the agent's context, via hosted MCP.

freemiumFree $0 (1,000 API calls/mo, public repos); Pro $10/seat/mo (5,000/seat); hosted https://mcp.context7.com/mcp

Hosted Firecrawl MCP — scrape, search, parse. Keyless free tier; full tools need a Firecrawl key.

freemiumhosted https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp; keyless scrape/search/parse (rate-limited); full tools need a Firecrawl key or OAuth. Firecrawl Free $0 = 1,000 credits/mo; Hobby $16/mo billed yearly (https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing). npx firecrawl-mcp

GitHub's official MCP server — repos, issues, PRs, locally or hosted at api.githubcopilot.com.

freeMIT; local Docker/Go or remote https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/; PAT or OAuth, no GitHub seat fee for the server

Linear's hosted MCP — issues, projects, comments. Read-write at /mcp, read-only at /readonly.

freeincluded with a Linear account; hosted https://mcp.linear.app/mcp; readonly https://mcp.linear.app/mcp/readonly; OAuth 2.1 or API key

Microsoft's MCP server for browser automation via accessibility snapshots — no vision model required.

freeApache-2.0; npx @playwright/mcp@latest; you pay the model, not Microsoft

Official MCP fetch server — URL to markdown. Can hit local IPs; Python SDK 1.x only.

freeMIT reference; uvx mcp-server-fetch or pip mcp-server-fetch

Official MCP reference server that exposes a local directory to the agent.

freeMIT reference; npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem <allowed-dir>

Official MCP git server — status, diff, log, and it can commit. Python SDK 1.x only.

freeMIT reference; uvx mcp-server-git or pip mcp-server-git

Sentry's remote MCP for coding agents — issues, traces, debug, not a full Sentry API.

freeincluded with a Sentry account; hosted https://mcp.sentry.dev/mcp; stdio npx @sentry/mcp-server for self-hosted

Supabase's hosted MCP — SQL, migrations, functions. Vendor says keep it off production.

freeincluded with a Supabase account; hosted https://mcp.supabase.com/mcp; read_only=true and project_ref query params; branching tools need a paid plan

Official everything MCP — a test server that exercises the protocol, not a tool you run.

freeMIT reference; npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-everything

Official sequential-thinking MCP — a loop that spends tokens to look like reasoning.

freeMIT reference; npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-sequential-thinking

Jira/Confluence MCP so the coding agent can read tickets instead of pasting them into chat.

freemiumRequires an Atlassian cloud site; MCP itself is not a separate SKU we found

Official-ish MCP wrapper around Brave Search API for agents that need web results without a browser.

freemiumServer free; Brave Search API has a free tier then paid

Cloudflare MCP servers for Workers/docs/builds — agent access to the account, not just docs search.

freeMCP is free; Cloudflare usage is the bill

Official Notion MCP server — workspace pages and databases as tools for coding agents.

freeServer is free; you need a Notion workspace and integration token

Reference MCP server for querying Postgres — useful and easy to point at production by mistake.

free