MCP comparisons
Comparisons rot faster than anything else on a technical site, so these carry a verification date and name their sources — published package metadata rather than impressions. Where a claim is about someone else's software, you can re-derive it yourself from the method each page documents.
FastMCP vs xmcp vs the official SDK
Which TypeScript frameworks can actually serve a 2026-07-28 client.
Where to host an MCP server
What the spec requires of a host, and why serverless became the natural fit.
Which comparison answers your question?
- Choosing a TypeScript framework, and need to know which can actually serve a 2026-07-28 client: FastMCP vs xmcp vs the official SDK
- Choosing where to deploy, and need to know what the spec requires of a host: where to host an MCP server
- Already built it with one of these, and want to know whether the result is compliant: validate your server
No pricing tables and no vendor rankings here on purpose: both change monthly and would be stale before they were useful. What doesn't change monthly is what the 2026-07-28 specification requires — which is what these compare against.