# Selection & fit for Best MCP Gateways

**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. This hub covers selection and fit: gateway, router or aggregator, and which you need.


## What this hub covers

Start here to name what you actually need. The first entry separates a gateway, a router and an aggregator, and notes that many products do all three. The second explains what an MCP router does for clients that connect to many servers, and what to use now.

## Comparing gateway models

A gateway sits between agents and the servers they call. Some run in your own cluster, some are hosted for you, and some bring their own tools. Each entry here says where a gateway runs, what it controls and what it costs, from its maker's own pages. Conecto is the hosted option with business tools behind it.

## Follow a practical reading path

- [Gateway, router or aggregator](/gateway-router-aggregator/): A gateway sits in the path, a router picks the server, and an aggregator merges tool lists. Many products do all three.
- [What an MCP router is and what to use now](/mcp-router/): An MCP router sits between AI clients and many MCP servers. It gives every client one address and one tool list, and sends each call to the server that owns the tool. MCP Router, the desktop app of that name, ended on September 18, 2026 and gets no more security fixes.

## Questions & answers

### How does Conecto relate to MCP gateways?

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.

### What is the first practical step?

Count the servers and agents you run. If you host your own servers, compare self-hosted gateways first. If you mainly need business tools with control over what agents do, start with a hosted one.

## Sources for this entry

This entry cites no outside page. The source register at /sources/ lists every page this reference cites.

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/

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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/topics/fit/