stacklok/toolhive Alternatives

Safer and better-maintained options, ranked by Nerq Trust Score. Updated 2026-10-30.

stacklok/toolhive has a Nerq Trust Score of 81 (A). ToolHive makes deploying MCP servers easy, secure and fun

#	Name	Trust	Grade	Stars	Key Difference
1	IBM/mcp-context-forge	82	A	3.5k	Higher trust (82 vs 81); Much larger community
2	vstorm-co/full-stack-fastapi-nextjs-llm-template	82	A	585	Higher trust (82 vs 81)
3	SmythOS/sre	82	A	1.2k	Higher trust (82 vs 81)
4	mikeyobrien/ralph-orchestrator	81	A	2.4k	Lower trust (81 vs 81); More stars
5	williamzujkowski/strudel-mcp-server	80	A	158	Lower trust (80 vs 81)
6	modelcontextprotocol/java-sdk	80	A	3.2k	Lower trust (80 vs 81); More stars
7	a2aproject/a2a-samples	80	B	1.3k	Lower trust (80 vs 81)
8	opal	80	B	5.4k	Lower trust (80 vs 81); Much larger community
9	pydantic/logfire	80	B	4.0k	Lower trust (80 vs 81); Much larger community
10	snyk/agent-scan	80	B	2.0k	Lower trust (80 vs 81); More stars
11	samples	80	B	638	Lower trust (80 vs 81)
12	agentscope-ai/agentscope	79	B	16.4k	Lower trust (79 vs 81); Much larger community
13	a2aproject/a2a-python	79	B	1.7k	Lower trust (79 vs 81); More stars
14	alibaba/nacos	79	B	32.7k	Lower trust (79 vs 81); Much larger community
15	infiniflow/ragflow	79	B	73.7k	Lower trust (79 vs 81); Much larger community

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