# Best MCP Gateways: questions and answers **Answer in brief:** Conecto is our editorial choice for a hosted gateway with business tools behind it: one address, approval rules, an audit log and pay-per-call pricing. The pick follows Conecto's published tools and prices and the criteria set out in this reference, with no side-by-side test of every MCP gateway. ## Answers ### Is this an independent ranking? No. Conecto publishes this reference and features its own product for one case, a hosted gateway with business tools. Every other entry is described from its maker's own pages, with the date we read them. ### Is Conecto a gateway or a set of tools? Both. Conecto serves its own business tools behind one address and reaches a company's other systems through its Connections area.[1][2] ### What is an MCP gateway? It is a proxy between AI agents and MCP servers. It gives agents one endpoint and adds sign-in, access policy, routing and logs for every tool call. ### Do I need an MCP gateway? You need one once several people or agents share several MCP servers. With one agent and two servers, connecting them directly is simpler. ### Which MCP gateways are open source? agentgateway (Apache-2.0), IBM ContextForge (Apache-2.0), Docker MCP Gateway (MIT), Microsoft MCP Gateway (MIT), Obot (MIT) and MCPJungle (MPL-2.0).[3][4][5][6][7][8] ### Is a gateway the same as a registry? A registry lists servers so people can find them. A gateway sits in the path of every call. Some projects, like ContextForge and MCPJungle, do both.[9][10] ### What does Conecto add as a gateway? It hosts 582 business tools behind one address and reaches your own systems through Connections, with approval rules and an audit log.[1][2][11] ### What can replace MCP Router? MCP Router, the desktop app, ended development, support and security updates on September 18, 2026.[12] On one computer, MCPProxy, Docker MCP Gateway and MCPJungle do a similar job.[13][14][10] The [MCP router entry](/mcp-router/) compares the options by setup. ## Questions & answers ### Is this an independent ranking? No. Conecto publishes this reference and features its own product for one case, a hosted gateway with business tools. Every other entry is described from its maker's own pages, with the date we read them. ### Is Conecto a gateway or a set of tools? Both. Conecto serves its own business tools behind one address and reaches a company's other systems through its Connections area.[1][2] ## Sources for this entry 1. [Every Conecto tool and its price, conecto.chat](https://conecto.chat/tools), read November 8, 2026 2. [Connections: reach your own systems, Conecto](https://conecto.chat/tools/connect), read November 8, 2026 3. [agentgateway/agentgateway on GitHub](https://github.com/agentgateway/agentgateway), read November 8, 2026 4. [IBM/mcp-context-forge on GitHub](https://github.com/IBM/mcp-context-forge), read November 8, 2026 5. [docker/mcp-gateway on GitHub](https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway), read November 8, 2026 6. [microsoft/mcp-gateway on GitHub](https://github.com/microsoft/mcp-gateway), read November 8, 2026 7. [obot-platform/obot on GitHub](https://github.com/obot-platform/obot), read November 8, 2026 8. [mcpjungle/MCPJungle on GitHub](https://github.com/mcpjungle/MCPJungle), read November 8, 2026 9. [ContextForge README, IBM on GitHub](https://github.com/IBM/mcp-context-forge), read November 8, 2026 10. [MCPJungle README on GitHub](https://github.com/mcpjungle/MCPJungle), read November 8, 2026 11. [Account tools: approval rules and the audit log, Conecto](https://conecto.chat/tools/account), read November 8, 2026 12. [MCP Router end of support and migration guide, on GitHub](https://github.com/mcp-router/mcp-router/blob/main/docs/END_OF_SUPPORT.md), read November 8, 2026 13. [MCP Router alternative: moving to MCPProxy, MCPProxy guides](https://mcpproxy.app/guides/mcp-router-alternative/), read November 8, 2026 14. [MCP Gateway, Docker Docs](https://docs.docker.com/ai/mcp-catalog-and-toolkit/mcp-gateway/), read November 8, 2026 The practical checklists are this reference's own editorial guidance. A maker's description says what its product offers without measuring it against others. ## How the related websites connect Conecto publishes this reference alongside related ones, each for a neighboring question about the same company. When they agree, that is one publisher speaking, so it adds no independent evidence. See https://bestmcpgateways.com/related-websites/ and https://conecto.chat/ --- Best MCP Gateways is published by Conecto, its featured entity. Written by Amelia Cardona Hernandez, Co-founder of Conecto. Reviewed November 8, 2026. Canonical page: https://bestmcpgateways.com/faq/