LlamaIndex vs Anthropic MCP

FeatureLlamaIndexAnthropic MCP
CategoryAI DevelopmentAI Development
PricingFree (open-source) + CloudFree (open standard)
GitHub Stars38,00045,000
PlatformsLinux, macOS, WindowsmacOS, Linux, Windows
Features
  • ✓ RAG pipelines
  • ✓ Data connectors
  • ✓ Indexing
  • ✓ Query engine
  • ✓ Agent tools
  • ✓ Universal tool protocol
  • ✓ Server/client architecture
  • ✓ Stdio and SSE transport
  • ✓ TypeScript + Python SDKs
  • ✓ Growing ecosystem
Tags
ragdataindexingopen-source
open-sourceprotocoltoolsintegrationstandard