# Best MCP Gateways: working brief

A one-page brief for choosing MCP gateways. Fill it in before you compare anything.

## The job

- What should the agent do?
- What does it read?
- What may it change or send?
- Who approves it?

## The candidates

| Name | Maker's page | Read on | Address or install | Sign-in | Price |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |

## The first run

- One job, one week, approvals on.
- Budget for the week:
- What a good result looks like:

### Describe the traffic before choosing

Write down the agents, the servers, the calls per day and the calls that need approval. A gateway that can't handle that traffic is out.

### Compare evidence on the same terms

For each gateway, read the maker's page for where it runs, how it signs in, what it logs and what it costs, and note the date you read it.

### Use a bounded first run

Put one agent and one server behind the gateway for a week, with logging and a budget on, and read the log at the end.

From Best MCP Gateways, published by Conecto: https://bestmcpgateways.com/