Curated list
Lightweight MCP servers
Each tool a server declares takes room in the model's context and is one more thing the model can choose to call. These servers declare between one and five tools, which keeps them small and easy to reason about. Servers whose marketplace does not list their tools are left out rather than counted as having none, and each one has at least 100 GitHub stars.
Lightweight MCP servers
Ranked by Stars (GitHub). Figures of different marketplaces are never added up.
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Markitdown
microsoft · MCP server · Docker MCP Catalog
Runs on your machine · Secrets: 0 · Tools: 1
190k
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AWS KB Retrieval (Archived)
modelcontextprotocol · MCP server · Docker MCP Catalog
Runs on your machine · Secrets: 1 · Tools: 1
91 146
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EverArt (Archived)
modelcontextprotocol · MCP server · Docker MCP Catalog
Runs on your machine · Secrets: 1 · Tools: 1
91 146
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Fetch (Reference)
modelcontextprotocol · MCP server · Docker MCP Catalog
Runs on your machine · Secrets: 0 · Tools: 1
91 146
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Sentry (Archived)
modelcontextprotocol · MCP server · Docker MCP Catalog
Runs on your machine · Secrets: 1 · Tools: 1
91 146
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Sequential Thinking (Reference)
modelcontextprotocol · MCP server · Docker MCP Catalog
Runs on your machine · Secrets: 0 · Tools: 1
91 146
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Time (Reference)
modelcontextprotocol · MCP server · Docker MCP Catalog
Runs on your machine · Secrets: 0 · Tools: 2
91 146
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Amazon Neptune
awslabs · MCP server · Docker MCP Catalog
Runs on your machine · Secrets: 0 · Tools: 4
9 767
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Amazon Q Business
awslabs · MCP server · Docker MCP Catalog
Runs on your machine · Secrets: 2 · Tools: 1
9 767
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AWS API
awslabs · MCP server · Docker MCP Catalog
Runs on your machine · Secrets: 2 · Tools: 2
9 767
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AWS Bedrock Data Automation
awslabs · MCP server · Docker MCP Catalog
Runs on your machine · Secrets: 0 · Tools: 3
9 767
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AWS Core
awslabs · MCP server · Docker MCP Catalog
Runs on your machine · Secrets: 0 · Tools: 1
9 767
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AWS Diagram
awslabs · MCP server · Docker MCP Catalog
Runs on your machine · Secrets: 0 · Tools: 3
9 767
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AWS Documentation
awslabs · MCP server · Docker MCP Catalog
Runs on your machine · Secrets: 0 · Tools: 4
9 767
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AWS CloudTrail
awslabs · MCP server · Docker MCP Catalog
Runs on your machine · Secrets: 0 · Tools: 5
9 767
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AWS Labs Nova Canvas
awslabs · MCP server · Docker MCP Catalog
Runs on your machine · Secrets: 2 · Tools: 2
9 767
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Perplexity
perplexityai · MCP server · Docker MCP Catalog
Runs on your machine · Secrets: 1 · Tools: 3
2 557
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io.github.tavily-ai/tavily-mcp
tavily-ai · MCP server · marketplaces: 2
Runs on your machine · Secrets: 1 · Tools: 5
2 428
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Private Web Search
nickclyde · MCP server · Docker MCP Catalog
Runs on your machine · Secrets: 0 · Tools: 2
1 527
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Ref - Up-To-Date Docs
ref-tools · MCP server · Docker MCP Catalog
Runs on your machine · Secrets: 1 · Tools: 2
1 180
How the list is built
- Type: MCP servers.
- Declares from 1 to 5 tools; plugins whose marketplace lists no tools are left out.
- Ranked by Stars (GitHub), with at least 100; plugins without this figure are left out.
- Only known plugins whose page we index: listed on a curated marketplace or on two marketplaces or more, or with at least 50 stars on GitHub, 500 installs on Claude Marketplace or 5 000 pulls on Docker Hub.
- The list shows up to 20 plugins and is offered to search engines only with 8 or more.
The list is rebuilt from our latest passes. Nobody pays to appear in it or to rank higher.
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