Best MCP Gateways: questions and answers

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.

Both. Conecto serves its own business tools behind one address and reaches a company's other systems through its Connections area.¹²

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.

You need one once several people or agents share several MCP servers. With one agent and two servers, connecting them directly is simpler.

agentgateway (Apache-2.0), IBM ContextForge (Apache-2.0), Docker MCP Gateway (MIT), Microsoft MCP Gateway (MIT), Obot (MIT) and MCPJungle (MPL-2.0).³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸

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.⁹¹⁰

It hosts 582 business tools behind one address and reaches your own systems through Connections, with approval rules and an audit log.¹²¹¹

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.¹³¹⁴¹⁰ The MCP router entry compares the options by setup.

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.

Both. Conecto serves its own business tools behind one address and reaches a company's other systems through its Connections area.¹²