best of · updated September 2026

The 15 best AI & ML MCP servers

The 15 AI & ML MCP servers worth your time, out of 364 we track - actively maintained, with real adoption, ranked on monthly installs, GitHub stars, and commit recency. Checked nightly.

AI & ML MCP servers connect agents to model providers, vector stores, and inference or evaluation tooling. Check whether a server targets model serving, retrieval, or experiment tracking, since the category spans the full machine-learning lifecycle.

01 Australian Tax MCP ★ 10 · commit 2026-09-15 The Australian tax knowledge base for AI agents. 848,015 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y ato-mcp 02 Local RAG (shinpr) ★ 398 · commit 2026-09-18 Search private documents from an MCP client or the terminal without sending them to an embedding API. 14,904 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · needs 3 env vars $ npx -y mcp-local-rag 03 Visual Memory MCP ★ 70 · commit 2026-09-15 Local visual UI cache for AI agents using perceptual hashing + CLIP to cut vision token use. 21,590 installs/mo · 3 releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y @putervision/vision-memory-mcp 04 Haiku RAG ★ 609 · commit 2026-09-17 Agentic RAG that answers questions about your own documents with citations to page numbers and section headings. 4,907 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ uvx haiku-rag 05 Ruv Swarm ★ 380 · commit 2026-08-09 Neural network swarm orchestration with WebAssembly acceleration and MCP integration 14,206 installs/mo · no env vars documented $ npx -y ruv-swarm 06 Tsbootstrap ★ 95 · commit 2026-09-16 Generate bootstrapped samples from time-series data. 7,238 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ uvx tsbootstrap 07 DeepSeek MCP Server ★ 352 · commit 2026-09-11 11 documented tools with a focus on read & search; local stdio install. 6,188 installs/mo · 11 tools documented · 2 releases/90d · needs 11 env vars $ npx -y deepseek-mcp-server 08 Fun ASR ★ 20,411 · commit 2026-09-18 Transcribe local audio with FunASR and SenseVoice using private, on-device inference. 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/modelscope/funasr-mcp:0.1.2 09 Visual Torch ★ 332 · commit 2026-09-18 VisualTorch aims to help visualize Torch-based neural network architectures. 1,353 installs/mo · 8 releases/90d · no env vars documented $ uvx visualtorch 10 Evalview MCP ★ 134 · commit 2026-09-05 Regression testing for AI agents. Golden baselines, CI/CD, LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI, Claude. 3,837 installs/mo · 1 release/90d · no env vars documented $ uvx evalview 11 Metaplex Agent Registry ★ 194 · commit 2026-09-18 Deploy AI agents on-chain into the Metaplex Agent Registry on Solana, from any MCP client. 944 installs/mo · 9 tools documented · 1 release/90d · needs 1 env var $ npx -y @three-ws/metaplex-agent-mcp 12 Dashclaw ★ 304 · commit 2026-09-16 Policy checks, approvals, records, and governed HTTP capabilities for unattended agents. 696 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · needs 2 env vars $ npx -y @dashclaw/mcp-server 13 Claude Prompts MCP ★ 186 · commit 2026-09-18 The portable workflow layer beside your AI coding harness. 945 installs/mo · 9 releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y claude-prompts 14 Freellmpool ★ 106 · commit 2026-09-04 freellmpool catalogs 22 LLM providers as distinct groups spanning recurring free tiers, keyless endpoints, finite trials, pin-only routes, and disabled candidates. 2,113 installs/mo · 3 releases/90d · needs 9 env vars $ uvx freellmpool 15 Chimera Forge ★ 2 · commit 2026-09-15 A local-first, model-agnostic LLM deployment planner. 5,325 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ uvx chimeraforge

How to choose between them

Australian Tax MCP tops the list - the most installs (848,015 last month) and actively maintained. 1 of these 15 offers a remote endpoint (no local process to run); the rest are local stdio servers. 10 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 AI & ML MCP server is most installed?

Australian Tax MCP, with 848,015 installs in the last month (as of September 2026). By GitHub stars the leader is Fun ASR (20,411).

How many AI & ML MCP servers exist?

We track 364 AI & ML 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 105 AI & ML 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 105, all of which you can see on this page. The other 259 we track have stopped being maintained, or nobody is using them yet. Full recipe: how we verify.