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10 alternatives to github-mcp-server

github/github-mcp-server — GitHub's official MCP Server (33,894 stars, MIT, integration, auth, dev-tools).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 165 licence-cleared components from github/github-mcp-server itself.

#RepoScoreLicenceStars
1xpzouying/xiaohongshu-mcp6.2Apache-2.016,427
2jina-ai/mcp1.8Apache-2.0892
3modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk7.5Apache-2.013,641
4apify/apify-mcp-server5.9MIT12,450
5modelcontextprotocol/php-sdk8.1Apache-2.01,642
6modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk6.7MIT24,652
7modelcontextprotocol/java-sdk7.0MIT3,735
8czlonkowski/n8n-mcp6.4MIT23,115
9upstash/context77.3MIT63,429
10ameshkov/mcp-compress-router5.9MIT21

The alternatives in detail

Licence data: JustClaw-It's per-repo licence policy. Is github-mcp-server still maintained? Check it. Licence details: licence checker. Ranking data from 2026-10-27T23:04:12Z.

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