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MCP Server Examples: 18 Real Servers You Can Use Right Now ​

April 13, 2026 · Gallery · 10 min read

The fastest way to understand what MCP servers can do is to use a few. Not read about them — actually connect one to Claude, Cursor, or your own agent and watch it work.

This gallery is 18 real, working MCP servers hosted on Universal API. Each one is live right now. No Docker setup, no npm install, no config files. Just a URL you can paste into your MCP client.

Last updated: April 2026

What is an MCP Server? ​

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server exposes tools, resources, and prompts that AI assistants can call. Think of it as an API designed specifically for LLMs — structured inputs, structured outputs, discoverable via a standard protocol.

Any MCP-compatible client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, Windsurf, custom agents) can connect to these servers and use their tools.

How to Connect ​

Every server below has a human-readable Streamable HTTP endpoint using the slug format:

https://mcp.api.universalapi.co/mcp/s/{owner}/{server-name}

For example, the SerpAPI server is at:

https://mcp.api.universalapi.co/mcp/s/snowtimber/serpapi

In Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json):

json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "serpapi": {
      "url": "https://mcp.api.universalapi.co/mcp/s/snowtimber/serpapi",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"
      }
    }
  }
}

In Cursor (Settings → MCP → Add Server):

  • Type: HTTP
  • URL: https://mcp.api.universalapi.co/mcp/s/snowtimber/serpapi
  • Headers: Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN

Get a free token at universalapi.co (100 credits included).

🔍 Don't Know the URL? Your Agent Can Find It ​

Here's the best part: you don't need to memorize any of these URLs. Connect just one server — Universal API Full — and your agent gets a search_resources tool that semantically searches across every public MCP server on the platform.

Ask your agent "find me an MCP server for sending emails" and it will discover the right server, get its endpoint URL, and can connect to it dynamically. One URL to rule them all:

https://mcp.api.universalapi.co/mcp/s/snowtimber/universalapi-full

This single connection gives your agent access to 85+ tools including the ability to discover and use every other server in this gallery — and any new ones added in the future.

🔍 Search & Research ​

1. SerpAPI — Google & Reddit Search ​

Search Google, Google News, Reddit, and specific subreddits. Monitor topics across multiple communities at once.

Tools (6): google_search, google_news, search_reddit, search_subreddit, monitor_topics, reddit_post_info

Example prompts:

  • "Search Google for 'best MCP server hosting 2026'"
  • "Find recent Reddit posts about MCP authentication in r/mcp and r/ClaudeAI"
  • "Get the details of this Reddit post: [url]"

Best for: Market research, competitive analysis, content ideation, lead finding.

Connect: View on Universal API

2. Doc Hound — Web Search + Smart Extraction ​

Search the web and then scrape pages with AI-powered extraction. Finds the relevant sections instead of dumping raw HTML.

Tools (2): search_web, scrape_and_extract

Example prompts:

  • "Search for 'MCP server authentication best practices' and extract the key recommendations from the top 3 results"
  • "Scrape this documentation page and pull out the API endpoints"

Best for: Research workflows, documentation analysis, competitive intelligence.

Connect: View on Universal API

3. Reddit Search — Direct Reddit API ​

Search Reddit posts and comments directly via the Reddit API. Get post details, search within specific subreddits, and find trending discussions.

Tools (4): search_reddit, search_subreddit, get_post_details, get_trending

Example prompts:

  • "Search Reddit for posts about 'MCP server hosting'"
  • "What's trending in r/LocalLLaMA right now?"
  • "Get the full details and top comments for this Reddit post"

Best for: Community monitoring, trend analysis, user research.

Connect: View on Universal API

📧 Google Suite ​

4. Google Suite — Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Sheets ​

Full read/write access to Google Workspace. Send emails, manage calendar events, search Drive files, read and write spreadsheets.

Tools (13): gmail_send, gmail_search, gmail_read, calendar_list_events, calendar_create_event, drive_search, drive_read, sheets_read, sheets_write, contacts_search, and more

Example prompts:

  • "Send an email to john@example.com with the subject 'Meeting Follow-up'"
  • "What meetings do I have tomorrow?"
  • "Search my Drive for files about Q1 planning"

Requires: Google OAuth connection (set up in Universal API dashboard)

Best for: Email automation, calendar management, document workflows.

Connect: View on Universal API

🛠️ Platform & Development ​

5. Universal API Full — Platform Management ​

The meta-server: manage MCP servers, agents, cron jobs, channels, knowledge files, and website hosting — all from chat.

Tools (85+): Create/update/delete servers, agents, cron jobs, channels, knowledge files, website files, access tokens, search resources, chat with agents, and more.

Example prompts:

  • "List all my MCP servers"
  • "Create a new agent called 'research-assistant'"
  • "Upload this file to my knowledge storage"
  • "Deploy this HTML to my website"

Best for: Platform power users, building agents that manage other agents.

Connect: View on Universal API

6. Cloudflare — DNS, Workers & KV Management ​

Manage Cloudflare DNS records, Workers scripts, and KV namespaces from chat. Create, list, and delete DNS records, inspect your Workers, and browse KV stores.

Tools (6): list_zones, list_dns_records, create_dns_record, delete_dns_record, list_workers, list_kv_namespaces

Example prompts:

  • "List all my Cloudflare zones"
  • "Add an A record for api.example.com pointing to 1.2.3.4"
  • "List all KV namespaces in my account"

Requires: Cloudflare API token

Best for: Infrastructure management, DNS automation, edge computing.

Connect: View on Universal API

📊 Data & Analytics ​

7. Neon Postgres — Serverless Database Management ​

Manage Neon serverless Postgres databases. List projects, create instant database branches, run SQL queries, and manage your database infrastructure through natural language.

Tools (6): list_projects, get_project, list_branches, create_branch, run_sql, delete_branch

Example prompts:

  • "List all my Neon projects"
  • "Create a new branch called 'feature-test' from main"
  • "Run this SQL: SELECT count(*) FROM users WHERE created_at > '2026-04-01'"

Requires: Neon API key

Best for: Data exploration, database branching workflows, schema management.

Connect: View on Universal API

8. Upstash Redis — Serverless Key-Value Store ​

Redis operations via Upstash's serverless REST API. Get/set keys, manage TTLs, increment counters, list keys by pattern, and work with hashes.

Tools (6): redis_get, redis_set, redis_del, redis_keys, redis_incr, redis_hgetall

Example prompts:

  • "Set a cache key 'user:123' with this JSON data, expiring in 1 hour"
  • "What's the current value of the rate-limit counter?"
  • "List all keys matching 'session:*'"

Requires: Upstash Redis REST URL and token

Best for: Caching, rate limiting, session management, real-time counters.

Connect: View on Universal API

☁️ AWS & Cloud ​

9. AWS MCP Proxy — Full AWS CLI Access ​

Execute any AWS CLI command through MCP. Manage EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, and 200+ AWS services — all from your AI assistant.

Tools (5): call_aws, search_documentation, read_documentation, get_regional_availability, get_service_info

Example prompts:

  • "List all running EC2 instances in us-east-1"
  • "What S3 buckets do I have?"
  • "Search AWS docs for Lambda cold start optimization"

Requires: AWS credentials (access key + secret key)

Best for: Cloud infrastructure management, DevOps automation, AWS documentation lookup.

Connect: View on Universal API

10. AWS Textract OCR — Document Text Extraction ​

Extract text, tables, and form data from documents and images using AWS Textract. Supports PDFs, PNGs, JPEGs — upload a document and get structured text back.

Tools (4): analyze_document, detect_text, analyze_expense, analyze_id

Example prompts:

  • "Extract all the text from this scanned PDF"
  • "Pull the table data from this invoice image"
  • "Read the fields from this driver's license photo"

Requires: AWS credentials

Best for: Document processing, invoice extraction, OCR workflows, form digitization.

Connect: View on Universal API

11. AWS SES Email Sender — Transactional Email via SES ​

Send emails through Amazon SES. Simple, reliable email delivery for notifications, alerts, and transactional messages.

Tools (2): send_email, send_templated_email

Example prompts:

  • "Send an alert email to ops@example.com about the deployment"
  • "Send a welcome email to the new user"

Requires: AWS credentials with SES permissions

Best for: Transactional email, alert notifications, automated reports.

Connect: View on Universal API

🔐 Security & Monitoring ​

12. Sentry — Error Monitoring & Issue Management ​

Monitor application errors via the Sentry API. List projects, browse issues, get stack traces, and resolve or ignore issues — all from chat.

Tools (5): list_projects, list_issues, get_issue, get_latest_event, update_issue

Example prompts:

  • "What unresolved errors are in my project?"
  • "Show me the stack trace for the most recent exception"
  • "Resolve issue #12345"

Requires: Sentry auth token

Best for: Error monitoring, incident response, debugging from chat.

Connect: View on Universal API

💳 Payments & Business ​

13. Stripe — Payment Management ​

Manage Stripe payments, customers, subscriptions, and invoices. List charges, create customers, check your balance, and view subscription status.

Tools (6): list_customers, create_customer, list_charges, list_subscriptions, get_balance, list_invoices

Example prompts:

  • "List all customers who signed up this month"
  • "What's my current Stripe balance?"
  • "Show me all active subscriptions"

Requires: Stripe secret key

Best for: Payment management, subscription operations, revenue reporting.

Connect: View on Universal API

📨 Email & Communication ​

14. Resend — Modern Transactional Email ​

Send transactional emails via Resend's developer-friendly API. Manage sending domains and track delivery.

Tools (5): send_email, get_email, list_domains, create_domain, list_api_keys

Example prompts:

Requires: Resend API key

Best for: Transactional email, notification workflows, email automation.

Connect: View on Universal API

🕷️ Web Scraping & Crawling ​

15. Firecrawl — Advanced Web Scraping ​

Scrape single pages, crawl entire sites, map URLs, and extract structured data using Firecrawl's API. Get clean markdown instead of raw HTML.

Tools (5): scrape_url, crawl_site, get_crawl_status, map_site, extract_data

Example prompts:

  • "Scrape this product page and extract the price, title, and description"
  • "Crawl this documentation site (max 20 pages) and get all the content"
  • "Map all the URLs on example.com"

Requires: Firecrawl API key

Best for: Data extraction, content migration, competitive analysis, web monitoring.

Connect: View on Universal API

🧠 AI & Specialized ​

16. Bedrock Model Invoker — Call Any AWS Bedrock Model ​

Invoke any model available on Amazon Bedrock — Claude, Nova, Llama, Mistral, and more. Useful for multi-model workflows where your agent needs to call a different model for a specific task.

Tools (2): invoke_model, list_models

Example prompts:

  • "Use Nova Micro to summarize this text (it's cheaper for simple tasks)"
  • "List all available Bedrock models"
  • "Invoke Llama 3 with this prompt and compare the output"

Requires: AWS credentials with Bedrock access

Best for: Multi-model workflows, model comparison, cost optimization.

Connect: View on Universal API

17. Web Scraper-Search — Lightweight Web Research ​

A lightweight alternative to Doc Hound for quick web searches and page scraping. Search the web and extract content from pages.

Tools (2): search_web, scrape_page

Example prompts:

  • "Search for 'serverless MCP hosting' and show me the top results"
  • "Scrape this blog post and give me the key points"

Best for: Quick research, content extraction, link discovery.

Connect: View on Universal API

18. Echo Server — Test & Demo ​

A simple echo server for testing MCP connections. Useful for verifying your client setup works before connecting to real servers.

Tools (5): echo, reverse, count_words, to_uppercase, to_lowercase

Example prompts:

  • "Echo back 'Hello, MCP!'"
  • "Reverse this string: 'testing 123'"

Best for: Testing MCP client configuration, debugging connections, demos.

Connect: View on Universal API

What Makes These Different? ​

Every server in this gallery is:

  • Live right now — not a GitHub repo you need to clone and configure
  • Streamable HTTP — works with Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, and any MCP client
  • Authenticated — Bearer token auth built in, no rolling your own
  • Multi-tenant isolated — your data never touches another user's execution environment
  • Pay-per-use — no monthly fees, just credits for what you actually use

Build Your Own ​

See something missing? You can build and deploy your own MCP server on Universal API in minutes:

  1. Go to universalapi.co and sign up
  2. Click "Create MCP Server"
  3. Write your server code (Node.js with @modelcontextprotocol/sdk)
  4. Deploy — you get a URL instantly
  5. Share it with your team, your users, or the world

Full docs: docs.universalapi.co/mcp-servers

FAQ ​

How much does it cost to use these servers? ​

Universal API uses a credit system. You get 100 free credits when you sign up. Each tool call costs at least 1 credit. Protocol overhead (listing tools, pinging) costs fractions of a credit. Most users spend 2-20 credits per conversation.

Can I use these with ChatGPT? ​

MCP support in ChatGPT is still rolling out. These servers work today with Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, Windsurf, and any client that supports Streamable HTTP transport.

Do I need API keys for the third-party services? ​

Yes — servers that connect to external services (Stripe, Cloudflare, Sentry, etc.) require your own API keys for those services. You store them securely in Universal API's key management, and they're injected at runtime. Servers like SerpAPI and Doc Hound include keys — no setup needed.

Can I self-host these instead? ​

The source code for all public servers is visible on each server's detail page. You can take the code and run it yourself. Universal API's value is the hosting, auth, isolation, and sharing — not lock-in.

Build it on Universal API and set visibility to "public." We feature community servers regularly. Reach out on X @universalapi or email logan@universalapi.co.

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