MCP server support on Vercel
Vercel now supports deploying Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and clients, enabling AI models to connect to tailored toolkits for specific tasks. The platform provides a new @vercel/mcp-adapter package supporting both SSE and stateless HTTP transports, with customers already seeing significant performance and cost improvements in production.
is a way to build integrations for AI models.Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Vercel now supports deploying MCP servers (which AI models can connect to) as well as MCP clients ( applications which call the servers).AI chatbot
Get started with our today.Next.js MCP template
APIs allow different services to communicate together. MCP is slightly different.
Rather than thinking about MCP like a REST API, you can instead think about it like a tailored toolkit that helps an AI achieve a particular task. There may be multiple APIs and other business logic used behind the scenes for a single MCP tool.
If you are already familiar with , MCP is a way to invoke tools hosted on a different server.tool-calling in AI
MCP now supports a protocol similar to other web APIs, namely using HTTP and OAuth. This is an improvement from the previous stateful protocol.Server-Sent Events (SSE)
To simplify building MCP servers on Vercel, we’ve published a , , which supports both the older SSE transport and the newer stateless HTTP transport.new package@vercel/mcp-adapter
The majority of MCP clients currently only support the SSE transport option. To handle state required for the SSE transport, you can integrate a Redis server through any provider in our like Upstash and Redis Labs.marketplace
We’ve already seen customers successfully deploying MCP servers in production. One customer has seen using on Vercel versus traditional serverless. Fluid enables you to have full Node.js or Python compatibility, while having a more cost effective and performant platform for AI inference and agentic workloads.over 90% savingsFluid compute
Vercel's for connecting your Node.js or Next.js apps to MCP servers.AI SDK has built-in support
We’re looking forward to future MCP servers built with the HTTP transport and starting to explore the latest developments like OAuth support.
are exploring ways to integrate MCP. If you have suggestions for MCP server use cases on Vercel, you can share your feedback in our .Other Vercel projects like shadcn/uicommunity
How is MCP different than APIs?
Deploying MCP servers to Vercel
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