MCP Inspector (official)
The official developer tool for inspecting and testing MCP servers from a web UI, CLI or terminal UI.
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Checking what an MCP server exposes and how it responds while you build it.
About MCP Inspector (official)
The MCP Inspector is the MCP project's own tool for inspecting servers. One package provides a web interface, a scriptable CLI for automation, CI and agent feedback loops, and an interactive terminal UI. Version 2 is the current line, with a migration guide from v1.
MCP Inspector (official) is a project written primarily in TypeScript, with 11k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspectorMCP Inspector (official) vs. the alternatives
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCP Inspector (official)this listing | 11k | TypeScript | — | Free |
| MCP Reference Servers | 91k | TypeScript | MIT AND Apache-2.0 | Open source |
| context7 | 62k | TypeScript | MIT | Open source |
| chrome-devtools-mcp | 53k | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Open source |
| Playwright MCP | 37k | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Open source |
| github-mcp-server | 33k | Go | MIT | Open source |
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