Remote MCP servers
43,210 servers you connect by URL over streamable HTTP. Nothing to install or keep running on your machine.
43,210 servers you connect by URL over streamable HTTP. Nothing to install or keep running on your machine.
A remote MCP server runs on someone else's infrastructure and your client connects to it by URL over streamable HTTP (older servers use SSE). Sign-in usually happens through OAuth in the browser instead of an API key in a config file.
Local servers run as a process on your machine and can reach your files and private network. Remote servers need no runtime and update themselves, but your data goes to the provider. Pick remote for SaaS products, local for files, databases on your network and anything offline.
In Claude Code run claude mcp add --transport http <name> <url>. In Cursor and Gemini CLI add the URL under mcpServers; in VS Code add it under servers with "type": "http". Each server page has the exact config.
UNHCR Refugee Data Finder MCP (keyless).
$claude mcp add mcp-unhcr -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-unhcrUNICEF Data (UN Children's Fund) MCP — global statistics on child health, nutrition, education…
$claude mcp add mcp-unicef -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-unicefEU VIES VAT-number validation MCP (European Commission).
$claude mcp add mcp-vies-eu -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-vies-euWikimedia REST API v1 MCP.
$claude mcp add mcp-wikimedia-rest -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-wikimedia-restAlchemy (Ethereum + L2) MCP.
$claude mcp add mcp-alchemy-eth -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-alchemy-ethBEA — Bureau of Economic Analysis MCP.
$claude mcp add mcp-bea-gov -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-bea-govBitfinex v2 public MCP.
$claude mcp add mcp-bitfinex -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-bitfinexbrapi.dev MCP — Brazilian stock + crypto + ETF quotes.
$claude mcp add mcp-brapi -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-brapiCoinbase Exchange public MCP.
$claude mcp add mcp-coinbase-exchange -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-coinbase-exchangedata.govt.nz CKAN MCP.
$claude mcp add mcp-data-govt-nz -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-data-govt-nzdatos.gob.cl CKAN MCP.
$claude mcp add mcp-datos-cl -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-datos-clHackerTarget MCP.
$claude mcp add mcp-hackertarget -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-hackertargetMapTiler MCP.
$claude mcp add mcp-maptiler -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-maptilerPANGAEA MCP — earth + environmental science data publisher.
$claude mcp add mcp-pangaea -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-pangaeaPixabay MCP.
$claude mcp add mcp-pixabay -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-pixabayPostmark MCP.
$claude mcp add mcp-postmark -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-postmarkReplicate MCP.
$claude mcp add mcp-replicate -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-replicateSeatGeek MCP.
$claude mcp add mcp-seatgeek -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-seatgeek