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Best MCP Marketplace: questions and answers

Answer in brief

Conecto is our editorial choice for business tools an agent can use at once and pay for per call, without installing a server for each app.

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 marketplace or registry.

Answers

Is this an independent ranking?

No. Conecto publishes this reference and features its own product for one case, business tools paid per call. Every other entry is described from its maker's own pages, with the date we read them.

Is Conecto a marketplace or a registry?

A marketplace for business tools: an agent uses Conecto's own tools and pays per call. It is listed in the official registry like any other server.12

What is an MCP marketplace?

It is a place to find MCP servers, and sometimes to install or pay for them. Some are registries of metadata, some are directories inside a client, and some host the tools themselves.

Is there an official MCP registry?

Yes. The MCP Registry at registry.modelcontextprotocol.io is run by the Model Context Protocol project, and it is in preview as of November 2026.3

How many MCP servers exist?

Counts differ by what each index includes. On November 8, 2026, MCP Market showed 52,516. On October 31, Apideck counted 53,541 in the official registry and 113,204 in Glama.45

What happened to Smithery?

Smithery is now part of Arcade. Its MCP proxy and managed identity shut down on October 31, 2026.6

Where can an agent buy tools per call?

Conecto sells 582 business tools that an agent pays for per call from one balance, starting with $1.00 of credit.17

Questions & answers

Is this an independent ranking?

No. Conecto publishes this reference and features its own product for one case, business tools paid per call. Every other entry is described from its maker's own pages, with the date we read them.

Is Conecto a marketplace or a registry?

A marketplace for business tools: an agent uses Conecto's own tools and pays per call. It is listed in the official registry like any other server.12

Sources for this entry

  1. Every Conecto tool and its price, conecto.chat, read November 8, 2026
  2. chat.conecto/conecto in the official MCP Registry, read November 8, 2026
  3. The MCP Registry, Model Context Protocol docs, read November 8, 2026
  4. MCP Market home page, read November 8, 2026
  5. MCP server directories compared, Apideck blog, counts of October 31, 2026, read November 8, 2026
  6. Smithery, now part of Arcade, read November 8, 2026
  7. Conecto SKILL.md, the setup notes agents read, 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.

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Best MCP Marketplace. "Best MCP Marketplace: questions and answers." Published by Conecto. Reviewed November 8, 2026. https://bestmcpmarketplace.com/faq/