Quick facts
- Best for
- MCP Inspector - Visual Testing Tool for MCP Servers
- Pricing
- Free
- Editor rating
- 4.5 / 5
- Community saves
- 0
About MCP Inspector
MCP Inspector is a developer tool from the Model Context Protocol project for testing and debugging MCP servers. It provides a browser UI and proxy flow for connecting to servers over stdio, SSE, and streamable HTTP transports.
Pros
- Visual UI for MCP server testing
- Supports stdio, SSE, and streamable HTTP
- Proxy component for browser-based inspection
- MCP configuration export helpers
- Authentication and local binding controls
Cons
Pricing
Open source
$0
- • Free repository access
- • Self-host or run locally
- • Third-party model or compute costs may apply