Frequently Asked Questions

MCP Hive General

  1. How is MCP Hive different from other MCP Registries? MCP Hive is the only open registry, which enabled payments for MCP Services. MCP Hive creates multiple mechanisms for an MCP Consumer to transact with MCP Providers. There are mechanisms for payment by subscription to a pooled set of partipating MCP Providers, there are mechanisms for pay-per-use on MCP interactions with varying prices, and thirdly, there are mechanisms for real-time purchase tokens, which are used for direct interactions between paying MCP Clients and earning MCP Servers. In addition, via invocation monitoring, MCP Hive assesses and analyzes MCP Providers regularly, providing reliable statistical information on accuracy, coverage, latency, and error rates. No other registries or aggregators perform these services.

I have authored an MCP Server

  1. Why should I register my MCP Server with the Hive? Unlike other MCP registries, MCP-Hive creates a framework that allows MCP Providers to charge for transaction costs. These costs offset the creation, deployment, and continued development of MCP servers that would otherwise not be viable.
  2. How does the pricing model work? When an MCP Provider is registered, it can define a fixed cost per transaction per tool or resource. These costs are expected to be low (less than $0.001) but reach significant revenue stream at high traffic. Alternatively, the MCP Provider can choose to enable subscription-only access. In this second approach the collective subscription revenue is used to determine the earnings of each MCP Provider.
  3. I have registered my MCP server, and I am not receiving traffic. This can be due to several reasons: (1) initial probation period: new MCP servers are tested for initial access and evaluated for a period of at least 72 hours, before they are presented to AI agents; (2) the MCP server and the tools provided by the server do not have the required description metadata to be selected; (3) the vital statistics of the MCP server reflect a low quality of service, when compare with other MCP servers. For deeper analysis on traffic flow, please contact info@mcp-hive.com
  4. How can I improve the vital statistics of my MCP server? You can see the vital statistics for each tool and resource of each MCP Provider you have registered. Compare these statistics with similar MCP providers for reference. If accuracy or coverage statistics are low, perform manual testing on sample requests, or log existing requests and analyze the queries and results.
  5. I see a high error rate associated with an MCP server, how can I investigate? MCP-Hive does not support log collection at this time, so MCP providers will need to log activity independently to analyze errors.

I have an MCP Client

  1. Why should I connect my AI Agents to MCP-Hive? In MCP-Hive, AI Agents can discover MCP Providers with the discovery tool. AI Agents discover not just which providers and tools are supported, but also key per-tool statistics such as latency, accuracy, coverage, and error rates.
  2. Why should I pay for MCP interactions? Some MCP servers will only be viable on a payment model, as they require funding to support deployment and continued development of their servers. Some MCP servers are also faster, more accurate, or reach higher coverage than others. In many cases, a call to an MCP server can obtain the exact information that is required, without imposing the AI to perform a web-search, build a context, and scan several pages. This reduces token counts and processing, and as a result, saves costs on AI inference. Web pages were designed for human interaction, run at slow speeds, and often add unrelated information and noise. With MCP-Hive, AI Agents discover information and act at the speed of AI.
  3. How are MCP Servers vetted for use within MCP-Hive? Newly registered MCP Providers undergo a probation testing period, which is validated for initial correctness and robustness. Following this probation period, MCP Providers are made available to AI agents, and are continuously monitored for accuracy, coverage, latency.
  4. How do I access the MCP servers which are available in MCP Hive? MCP Hive provides a Gateway MCP Service which acts as a proxy to all supported MCP Servers. MCP Clients can choose to install specific MCP server proxies, or a single-point gateway MCP Server. See client setup documentation for details.
  5. How much does MCP-Hive cost? The subscription model provides access to MCP servers in the Hive. You can choose between a strict subscription-only model or a hybrid model that enhances the subscription with budgeted pay-as-you-go access for additional servers. Note that some servers incur extra per-invocation costs, which are detailed during the discovery process.