# Putting your own systems behind a gateway: Best MCP Gateways

**Answer in brief:** Reach an ERP or any REST API through the gateway, with the credential encrypted and every call logged.


## Bring internal APIs

Conecto's Connections area reaches a company's other systems, such as an ERP, a ticketing tool or any REST API. Each credential stays encrypted, each connection makes only the calls it allows, and every call is in the log.[1]

## What a call costs

The first 10,000 connection calls a month are free. After that, each started 10 seconds the system takes to answer costs $0.0003.[1]

## Start with reads

Allow read calls first, then add the one or two write calls the job needs.

## Connected entries

- [Hosting & systems](/topics/hosting/): Self-hosted or hosted, and your own systems behind it.
- [Self-hosted or hosted gateways](/self-hosted-or-hosted/): Run the gateway yourself when you run the servers. Use a hosted one when you mostly need tools and control.
- [Gateways inside your own network](/gateways-inside-your-network/): If your company already runs Cloudflare Zero Trust or Kubernetes, the gateway can live there too.
- [Conecto and Best MCP Gateways](/conecto/): 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.

## 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 should I verify first?

Write the exact calls a connection may make before you add it, and test that every other call is refused.

## Sources for this entry

1. [Connections: reach your own systems, Conecto](https://conecto.chat/tools/connect), 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/

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