MCP Gateway Open Source Projects
Discover 4 open source MCP Gateway repositories from GitHub, each with an analysis of what it does, key features, use cases and alternatives. MCP Gateway projects here are most often combined with MCP, Proxy and AI Agents. Last updated October 20, 2026.

metamcp: Combine MCP Servers Behind One Gateway
MetaMCP combines configured MCP servers into unified endpoints and applies namespace-level controls. It suits teams hosting and managing MCP tools for multiple clients, but its development is currently quiet and recent pull-request activity is absent.
QuietHealth 35/100

kong: Route and Govern API, LLM, and MCP Traffic
Kong Gateway is a cloud-native, platform-agnostic API, LLM, and MCP gateway built in Lua. It centralizes traffic routing, security, and extensibility for teams running services on their own infrastructure or Kubernetes.
ActiveHealth 59/100

MCPJungle: Manage MCP Servers Behind One Endpoint
MCPJungle is a self-hosted gateway for registering MCP servers and connecting AI clients through one endpoint. It supports local setups and shared team deployments with tool filtering and access controls.
ActiveHealth 47/100

magictunnel: Discover and Route MCP Tools from Natural Language
MagicTunnel is a Rust smart MCP proxy that turns a natural-language request into the right tool call, so users do not have to search through large tool catalogs. It also provides a dashboard and can use Ollama with nomic-embed-text for local semantic search.
InactiveHealth 17/100