Friday, 8 May 2026
Established this morning · Issue 01 · Free while indexing

mcpmeter

A weekly almanac of Model Context Protocol servers

With metering, payouts, and one bill in place of forty.

Stripe MCP — 18,402 calls / 24h Postgres MCP — 11,209 calls Brave Search — 8,117 calls GitHub MCP — 7,840 calls Linear — 4,221 calls Notion — 3,907 calls Sentry — 2,612 calls Slack — 2,408 calls Resend — 1,998 calls 42 servers · 88,420 calls today · $1.2M paid out
§   Cover Story · Developer Tools · Payments
No. 01 of 42 · stripe

Charge cards from inside
any agent.

The Stripe MCP turns six lines of agent code into a working payments stack — customers, intents, subscriptions, refunds. It is now the most-used MCP on the marketplace, and it has not had an incident since February.

Read the feature → 8 min · By the editors
Specimen
# claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "stripe": {
      "url": "https://proxy
        .mcpmeter.com/stripe",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization":
          "Bearer mcpm_live_…"
      }
    }
  }
}
§   The Index · Pages 02 — 18

Forty-two MCPs, arranged for the agent operator.

Code ii.

A coworker who reads every pull request.

Issues, pull requests, code search, and review across an organisation's repositories. Scoped tokens, per-repo permissions.

GitHub Inc. Free · paid for orgs
Search iii.

The web, fetched without a browser.

Independent index. No tracking. Returns ranked snippets ready for retrieval-augmented prompts. Safe-search default on.

Brave Software $0.0021 / call
Productivity iv.

Plan and ship without the context switch.

Read issues, file new ones, change states, link to commits. Built by Linear; the agent shape mirrors the API exactly.

Linear Orbit Inc. $0.0009 / call
Communication vi.

Send, search, and summarise threads.

Channel-scoped writes. Reply-in-thread by default. Per-workspace consent flow with audit log.

Slack Technologies $0.0007 / call
Observability vii.

Triage errors and read traces, plainly.

The agent surfaces what's broken before you ask. Group-by-fingerprint, frame-level source context, suspect commit attribution.

Functional Software $0.0014 / call
Email viii.

Transactional mail an agent can send.

Domain-verified senders, scoped templates, hard rate caps. Bounce and spam reports flow back to the agent's context.

Resend Inc. $0.0003 / call
Storage ix.

An S3 bucket the agent can curate.

List, get, put, presign. Optional automatic content-type sniffing. Bucket-level allow-lists keep the blast radius small.

Tigris Data $0.0002 / call
Browse all 42 servers → Continued on page 19
§   By the Numbers

What four months of public traffic look like.

Numbers are pulled live from the proxy ledger. We do not show vanity metrics. If a column reads zero, it means zero.

MCP servers listed
142
↑ 38 since February
Calls / day, mean
88,420
P95 64,200 / P99 121,400
Paid to publishers
$1.2M
Net of platform fee, lifetime
Proxy overhead, P95
52ms
Median 17ms · target < 100ms

The protocol is finished arguing. The economy is just beginning.

Eighteen months in, Model Context Protocol is the lingua franca that let agents stop reinventing wrappers around every API. The registry is full. The community is generous. The README files are excellent. What is missing — what has been missing the entire time — is a billing artery: a way for a developer in Recife to charge a developer in Riga a third of a cent for a useful tool call, monthly, in dollars, without either of them speaking about it.

The protocol is open. The market for it should be too — fair-priced, fairly split, and instrumented so finely that the publisher and consumer trust the meter without having to argue with it.

— The editors, Issue 01

mcpmeter is built to be the artery. We sit, deliberately, in the middle of every paid call: authenticate, meter, forward, charge, and pay out. The platform fee is 20 % of usage — 10 % for the first hundred publishers in. Payouts to creators arrive on the first of each month via Stripe Connect, with a fifty-dollar minimum.

On the consumer side: one key, one bill, one place to set spending caps. We expose the proxy at proxy.mcpmeter.com/{slug}, and we write a usage record for every billable call. The ledger reconciles nightly to Stripe. If we charge you for a call, the publisher was paid for it. If we paid the publisher, you were charged. There is no third version.

Issue 01 ships with forty-two listings; we expect three hundred by autumn. If you have a server worth charging for, the door is open. The middle pages of this issue tell you how.

Publish a server →
§   Departments

Browse by what the agent is trying to do.

§   For Publishers

Set a price. Earn while
you sleep.

List your MCP server, choose a per-call price, and we route, meter, bill, and pay out — monthly, via Stripe Connect, fifty-dollar minimum. Founders' rate of 10 % platform fee for the first hundred listings, locked for twelve months.

§   Letters

What people writing agents have to say about the platform.

The first time we replaced four bespoke billing integrations with one mcpmeter key, our staging environment got quieter. We have not gone back.

M. Tanaka
Staff engineer, agent platform

We published our database MCP on Tuesday, were earning by Wednesday morning, and got our first payout on the first of the next month. The arithmetic was correct to the cent.

A. Okonkwo
Co-founder, infrastructure tooling

What I value most: a single page in our procurement portal that says mcpmeter, $1,840 last month, here are the line items. Nothing else looks like that yet.

L. Holden
Head of platform, mid-market AI