mcphost compare
mcphost next to Backenly, Smithery, and Cloudflare Agents
mcphost hosts the tools your agent writes. Three products you may be weighing do related but different jobs. Each row comes from that product's own public page, read 2026-10-01. Where the page did not say, the cell reads "not stated".
| product | what it hosts | who provisions the account | per-end-user identity on a call | open source licence | free tier | exit path |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mcphost | The MCP tools your agent writes: python, wasm, http, chain, and echo kinds, live immediately after publish. |
The agent itself, by calling signup; no human, no dashboard. |
Yes: host.oauth.* resolves and injects the signed-in end user per call. |
MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
Yes: 50 tools, 500 calls/day, no card. | Plain MCP over streamable HTTP; change the endpoint, or run the source. |
| Backenly | A Postgres backend: schema, REST (PostgREST), auth, storage, realtime, and functions. | A human, via the Backenly dashboard sign-up; the agent then connects with a project-scoped key. | not stated | Apache-2.0 | Yes: Free plan, $0 forever, no card, one live project. | Standard PostgreSQL connection string and pg_dump export on every plan; the platform itself is open source, so self-hosting is also an exit path. |
| Smithery | A directory of 24,000+ third-party MCP servers; connects an agent to them with one auth flow. | A developer, via npx smithery auth login or the site's Login button. |
not stated | not stated | not stated | not stated |
| Cloudflare Agents | A durable agent runtime on Cloudflare Workers: state, routing, scheduling, and tools (Sandbox, Browser, AI Search, MCP, Payments) you assemble yourself; not a hosted set of tools. | A developer, via a Cloudflare account and npx create-cloudflare@latest. |
not stated | not stated | not stated | not stated |
when to choose each one over mcphost
Backenly — choose it when the thing you need is a real Postgres database with auth, storage, and realtime as your product's backend, not a place to host the tools your agent writes.
Smithery — choose it when you want your agent to reach thousands of already-published third-party MCP servers through one auth flow, rather than publish and host your own tool.
Cloudflare Agents — choose it when you are building a durable, globally distributed agent application (chat, voice, email, Slack) and want to write the whole harness yourself on Workers, not just host a handful of tool calls.
Paste one line and your agent has mcphost. No key needed to sign up.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http mcphost https://mcphost.dev/mcp