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title: "Introducing the MCP Portal: Discover, Publish, and Monetize MCP Servers on the Swarms Marketplace"
description: "The Swarms Marketplace now has a dedicated MCP Portal for Model Context Protocol servers. Browse the most popular community-built MCPs, connect tools like Firecrawl, DeepWiki, and Exa to your AI agents, and publish your own MCP server with free or paid access."
date: "2026-08-06"
author: "Swarms Team"
categories: ["Product"]
featured: true
readTime: "7 min read"
image: "/mcp_portal_banner.png"
---

# Introducing the MCP Portal: Discover, Publish, and Monetize MCP Servers on the Swarms Marketplace

The MCP ecosystem starts here. We've launched the [MCP Portal](https://swarms.world/mcp) on the [Swarms Marketplace](https://swarms.world), a dedicated home for discovering, exploring, and publishing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Find the most popular MCPs, connect your agents to real tools, and monetize your own MCP servers, all in one place.

## What Is an MCP Server?

An MCP server is a service that implements the [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io), an open standard that lets AI agents call real tools (web search, scraping, databases, file systems, GitHub, speech, and arbitrary APIs) through one common interface.

Before MCP, connecting an agent to a new tool meant writing custom integration code for every tool and every framework, and rewriting it whenever either side changed. MCP replaces that with a standard contract: any MCP-compatible agent can use any MCP server, immediately. Write the integration once, and it works everywhere the protocol does.

That standardization is why MCP is quickly becoming the default interface between AI agents and the real world, and why we built a portal dedicated to it.

## What the MCP Portal Offers

The [MCP Portal](https://swarms.world/mcp) is a single surface for the entire MCP lifecycle:

- **Browse the most popular community-built MCP servers**, ranked and curated so the best tools surface first
- **Discover tools by capability**: web search, scraping and crawling, coding, GitHub and documentation research, speech, APIs, and more
- **Connect any MCP server to your AI agents** through the standardized protocol, with pricing shown on each listing before you connect
- **Publish your own MCP server** and offer it free or paid
- **Explore featured MCP servers** hand-picked from the Swarms community each week
- **One marketplace** for discovering, sharing, and monetizing MCPs: no separate registries, no scattered GitHub readmes

Everything on the portal also appears in the [full registry](https://swarms.world/platform/registry?type=agents&industry=mcp), where you can filter, sort, and search across the whole catalog.

## Featured MCP Servers This Week

Looking to give your AI agents real-world capabilities today? These are this week's featured MCP servers, ready to plug into any MCP-compatible agent:

### Firecrawl MCP Agent: Web Search, Crawling, and Scraping

Give your agents the ability to search the web, crawl entire sites, and extract clean, structured content from any page. Firecrawl handles the hard parts of scraping (rendering, rate limits, and formatting) behind a single MCP interface.

→ [Use the Firecrawl MCP Agent](https://swarms.world/agent/76372600-f6b7-43f1-a437-4a00957be9f5)

### DeepWiki MCP Agent: GitHub and Documentation Research

Point your agents at any GitHub repository and let them research its architecture, APIs, and documentation. DeepWiki turns codebases into queryable knowledge, which makes it a natural fit for coding agents, code-review workflows, and technical research.

→ [Use the DeepWiki MCP Agent](https://swarms.world/agent/a9f37d26-f668-4750-b2fc-bee17c4acda8)

### Exa MCP Search Agent: Real-Time Web Search

Real-time, high-quality web search built for AI consumption. Exa returns results agents can actually reason over, making it the go-to for research agents, monitoring workflows, and anything that needs fresh information.

→ [Use the Exa MCP Search Agent](https://swarms.world/agent/daa45075-4d72-4ce8-8078-0be68c273c28)

Each of these plugs into your agents through the same standardized interface: connect one or connect all three. [Browse all MCP servers →](https://swarms.world/mcp)

## How to Connect an MCP Server to Your AI Agents

Connecting takes minutes:

1. **Find a server** on the [MCP Portal](https://swarms.world/mcp): browse the featured picks or search the full catalog.
2. **Open the listing** to see what tools the server exposes, its documentation, and its pricing (many are free; paid servers show their price before you connect).
3. **Connect it to your agent.** Once connected, your agent can call every tool the MCP server exposes through the standard protocol, with no custom integration code.

Because MCP is an open standard, servers from the marketplace work with any MCP-compatible agent framework, including agents built on [Swarms](https://docs.swarms.ai).

## Publish Your MCP Server and Get Paid for It

Built an MCP server your agents rely on every day? Publish it to the Swarms Marketplace and let the entire community discover and use it.

- **Reach developers building AI agents**: the portal puts your server in front of the people searching for exactly what it does
- **Make it discoverable** in the MCP Portal and the registry automatically
- **Offer free or paid access**: you set the price, from $0.01 up
- **Earn revenue on every sale**: sellers keep 90% of every sale, with payouts by card via Stripe or crypto straight to your wallet; publishing itself is free
- **Join a growing ecosystem** of community-built MCP tools

Your MCP server could become the next tool every agent depends on.

[Launch your MCP server now →](https://swarms.world/launch)

## Why This Matters: MCP and the Agentic Economy

AI agents are only as useful as the tools they can reach. A brilliant reasoning model with no access to search, code execution, or live data is a brain in a jar. MCP is the standard that changes that, and standards win when there's one obvious place to find the implementations.

That's the job of the MCP Portal. For builders, it removes the integration tax: every server on the portal speaks the same protocol your agents already understand. For creators, it adds the missing piece most open-source tool authors never get: **distribution and monetization**. Publish once, reach every agent developer on the marketplace, and charge for the value your server provides.

MCP is becoming the standard interface between AI agents and real-world tools. Our goal is to make discovering, publishing, and using MCP servers as simple as possible, and to make the tools powering the agentic economy sustainable for the people who build them.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### What is an MCP server?

An MCP server is a service that implements the Model Context Protocol, an open standard that lets AI agents call real tools such as web search, databases, file systems, and APIs through one common interface.

### How do I use an MCP server from the marketplace?

Open any MCP server listing to see its details, then connect it to your agent. Once connected, your agent can use every tool the MCP server exposes.

### Are MCP servers free to use?

Many MCP servers on the marketplace are free. Creators can also make their MCP servers paid to use, and pricing is shown on each listing before you connect.

### How do I publish my own MCP server?

Publish your product from the [launch page](https://swarms.world/launch) and select the MCP category. Your MCP server then appears in the MCP Portal and the registry automatically, and you can make it paid to use.

### How much does the marketplace take from paid MCP servers?

Publishing is free, and Swarms takes a 10% fee only when a sale happens: you keep 90%, paid out via Stripe or crypto. See the full breakdown on the [pricing page](https://swarms.world/pricing).

## Links and Resources

- [Swarms Marketplace](https://swarms.world)
- [MCP Portal](https://swarms.world/mcp)
- [Publish an MCP Server](https://swarms.world/launch)
- [MCP Registry Filter](https://swarms.world/platform/registry?type=agents&industry=mcp)
- [Model Context Protocol specification](https://modelcontextprotocol.io)
- [Join the Community on Discord](https://discord.gg/EamjgSaEQf)
