Smithery alternative

Switching From Smithery To A Team That Runs It

Nobody wires up a separate connection for every server, and nobody ends up holding a credential they could leak. Running it is our job rather than yours, and signing up is free. Start For Free See Pricing Built for teams running many tools.

The short version

What you get here instead of Smithery

Rather than each person assembling their own set of connections and holding the credentials that go with them, providers attach centrally and reach becomes something you grant.

What you get here

  • Change Access Without Reconnecting
  • Revoke In One Place
  • Central Configuration
  • Add A Provider Once
  • Managed And Hosted
  • Named Client Identity
  • Token Authenticated Connectors
  • Credentials Stay Server Side
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What ships in the standard plan here

All

  • Change Access Without Reconnecting
  • Revoke In One Place
  • Central Configuration
  • Add A Provider Once
  • Managed And Hosted
  • Named Client Identity
  • Token Authenticated Connectors
  • Credentials Stay Server Side
  • One Endpoint For Everything
  • Attach Unlimited Connectors
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What changes once we run it

Rather than each person assembling their own set of connections and holding the credentials that go with them, providers attach centrally and reach becomes something you grant.

One endpoint, every connector

Every provider you attach arrives through the same connection, so your assistant is looking at one tool list rather than a dozen.

Access decided per person

Access is set person by person and tool by tool, and none of it lives on their machine.

Nothing for you to run

No container of yours sits in the path and no certificate of yours expires at an inconvenient moment. Your half of the setup is an account and one address.

Credentials never leave the server

A key nobody was handed is a key nobody can leak. Provider credentials sit on the gateway, which also means rotating one is a single edit rather than a message to the whole team asking them to go and update a file.

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Who this comparison is for

Teams sharing one set of tools

Everyone connects to the same address and sees only what you granted them. A new starter is working on their first morning without anybody walking them through a config file, and somebody leaving loses access in one action, not several.

Agencies working across client systems

Keep every client’s connectors attached in one place and hand each person only the ones they actually work on.

Anyone running several MCP servers

Past three or four servers, keeping separate entries current in every client stops being trivial.

How setting it up actually goes

Three steps, none of which involve installing software. The longest part is deciding who should be able to reach what, and even that is a matter of ticking boxes once your providers are attached.

  1. 1

    We assess your current setup

    First we look at how things run today: what you already pay for, what is configured where, and which parts are actually causing you trouble.

  2. 2

    Sign up and create your gateway

    There is no infrastructure to provision first, so your first provider can go on straight away. 2.

  3. 3

    Attach the providers you want

    Add each MCP server you want to reach, whether it is one of ours, one you already run yourself, or a third party service.

  4. 4

    Grant people the tools they need

    Add your team and choose, tool by tool, what each person can reach. They add one entry pointing at the same address you use, and see exactly what you granted and nothing else.

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Smithery alternative questions
Straight answers about switching, pricing, and what moves with you.
How is Cascadia different from Smithery?
One endpoint, every connector. Every provider you attach arrives through the same connection, so your assistant is looking at one tool list rather than a dozen. Whether a given connector runs inside your own instance or somewhere across the internet makes no difference to what that list looks like.
Connecting directly means one configuration entry per server, per client, per person. Ten tools across five people is fifty pieces of setup to create and later maintain. The router collapses that to one connection each. You attach a provider once centrally, and everyone you grant it to picks it up without touching their own configuration.
Yes. Gateway, router, proxy, and aggregator all describe the same pattern: a single service sitting between your AI assistants and the MCP servers behind them. We call ours a router because it also decides which person reaches which tool, rather than only forwarding traffic to whatever sits downstream.
There is no limit. Each connector you attach joins the same endpoint, and its tools appear alongside everything else already connected. Tools stay tagged with the connector they came from, so two providers offering similarly named operations do not collide or get mistaken for one another.
Access is set per person and per tool. You can enable a whole connector for somebody, or pick out individual tools from it. Changes apply to their existing connection, so nobody has to reconnect, re-authenticate, or edit a config file when you adjust what they can reach.
Yes, and this is the main reason to run one. Both people connect to the same endpoint with the same setup steps, but each sees only the tools you have granted them. Their assistants show different tool lists without either person configuring anything differently.
On our infrastructure. It is a managed service, so you connect to an endpoint we operate rather than standing anything up yourself. That means no deployment, no patching, and no uptime to watch.
No. You sign up, attach the providers you want, and add one entry to your assistant’s configuration pointing at the router. There is no package to install, no container to run, and no certificate to manage. The connectors behind the router can be ones we host or ones you already run yourself.
Yes. A free account gives you one user with no limit on how many connectors you attach, so you can wire up your real providers and use it properly rather than poking at a demo. Adding a second person is what moves you onto paid seats, at which point the per user rate applies across the account.
Any MCP server the router can reach. That includes connectors running locally inside an instance and connectors reachable over HTTPS, at the same time, in the same tool list.
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