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MCP Manager is an MCP gateway for companies in regulated industries: a private registry of trusted servers, RBAC, PII filtering and threat prevention, with HIPAA, GDPR and DORA named on the homepage. It started in New York and has been part of Usercentrics, Munich, since January 2026. Self-serve plans start at $135 a month; custom roles begin at $668.
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Roles, SSO and local servers: which plan has them.
The rows are taken from the plan table on mcpmanager.ai, 16 September 2026.1
| Core$135 / month | Plus$400 / month | Professional$668 / month | Enterpriseon request | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RBAC enforcement | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Custom roles | not included | not included | 5 | 100 |
| SSO and SCIM | not included | not included | not included | Yes |
| PII detection and blocking | not included | not included | Yes | Yes |
| Local MCP server support | not included | not included | not included | Yes |
| Log retention | 14 days | 30 days | 90 days | up to 2 years |
| MCP servers | 10 | 30 | 50 | unlimited |
On Loopthink roles per tool and field masking start at Pro, €19 a month; sign-in through your own identity provider is part of Team at €49. Servers behind your firewall run through the private runner, priced on our Enterprise pricing page.L
MCP Manager and Loopthink, row by row.
Only what each website states. Every cell about MCP Manager carries a footnote with its source and the date we checked it, 16 September 2026.
| MCP Manager | Loopthink | |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | Core $135, Plus $400, Professional $668 per month. Enterprise on request.1 | Free, Pro €19, Team €49 per month. Private runner and Enterprise on loopthink.ai/enterprise.L |
| Self-serve signup | Yes. Seven-day free trial on any self-serve plan.1 | Yes. Free tier with no card and no time limit; Pro and Team are a signup, not a call.L |
| Proxy for third-party MCP servers | Yes. Remote servers over HTTPS, managed instances in your own infrastructure, and workstation servers through a tunnel.2 | Yes. Point any MCP server at Loopthink and it gets OAuth, roles and a log. Two connectors on the free tier.L |
| Per-user identity | Yes. Per server, an administrator decides whether every user connects as themselves or with a shared identity. SSO is on Enterprise only.3,1 | Yes. OIDC/SSO against your own identity provider; every call runs as the person who asked.L |
| Tool-level roles | RBAC enforcement on every plan. Custom roles from Professional at $668 a month, five roles; 100 roles on Enterprise.1 | Yes. Per role, per tool, read or write. Write actions are off by default.L |
| Field masking | Yes. PII filtering can block, replace, mask, hash or redact detected values in tool results and arguments. Presidio detection from Professional.4,1 | Yes. Field-level masking and pseudonymization before the result reaches the model, from €19 a month.L |
| Reach systems behind your firewall | Workstation servers connect through an encrypted tunnel. “Local MCP server support” is listed on Enterprise only.5,1 | Yes. A private runner inside your infrastructure, priced on loopthink.ai/enterprise.L |
| EU company | Part of Usercentrics, Munich, since January 2026. The MCP Manager team is based in New York.6 | Yes. German company, hosted in the EU.L |
| Works as connector in claude.ai and ChatGPT | Yes. The docs name Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor; the end user adds the gateway URL in the client.7 | Yes. OAuth that claude.ai and ChatGPT accept, added as a custom connector.L |
Sources
- 1mcpmanager.ai/pricing-plans, checked 16 September 2026.
- 2docs.mcpmanager.ai, MCP servers overview, checked 16 September 2026.
- 3docs.mcpmanager.ai, Identity controls, checked 16 September 2026.
- 4docs.mcpmanager.ai, PII filtering, checked 16 September 2026.
- 5docs.mcpmanager.ai, Workstation MCP servers, checked 16 September 2026.
- 6usercentrics.com, press release of 14 January 2026, checked 16 September 2026.
- 7docs.mcpmanager.ai, Introduction, checked 16 September 2026.
- Lloopthink.ai/pricing, checked 17 October 2026.
MCP Manager is a trademark of its owner and is named here only to compare the two products. We review this page every quarter. If something has changed, tell us and we correct it.
Where MCP Manager is the better choice
- A private MCP registry with threat prevention against rug-pull attacks and data exfiltration, and a regex rules engine from the Plus plan.
- PII filtering with several actions, block, replace, mask, hash or redact, on tool results and on tool arguments, with Microsoft Presidio detection from Professional.
- If your security team wants a registry and guardrails across many third-party MCP servers, and a BAA for HIPAA on Enterprise, that is its focus.
Where Loopthink is the better choice
- Roles from the first paid tier: Pro at €19 includes roles per person, an identity of their own for every person, masking and a 30-day audit, not from $668 upwards.
- A free tier for two connectors, your own MCP server among them, with no time limit, and a private runner for servers behind your firewall at a published price rather than only on Enterprise.
- We build the connector for your own systems, SAP, SQL databases, internal APIs, instead of governing only the servers you already have to run yourself.
From MCP Manager to Loopthink, in three steps.
- 1
Start free, in parallel
Create a workspace and point one MCP server, n8n workflow or Make scenario at Loopthink. The free tier covers two connectors for one person, no card. Nothing on your current setup changes yet.
- 2
Add your people and set the roles once
From Pro on, your colleagues sign in with an identity of their own, through your own identity provider on Team. You grant tools per role; write actions stay off until you switch one on.
- 3
Move the client
In claude.ai or ChatGPT, add the Loopthink connector next to the old one, in the same custom-connector dialog. When every tool call you need runs, remove the old connector.
Our side of the risk: If you do not get a single working tool call in your first paid month, we refund that month.
Before you switch.
- Do we have to switch everything at once?
- No. Loopthink runs next to MCP Manager for as long as you like. Start with one server or one workflow on the free tier, and move the rest when the first one works for your team.
- Can we keep the MCP servers we already run?
- Yes. Point them at Loopthink and they inherit login, roles, masking and audit. Nothing on the server has to change, and the free tier covers two of them.
- What happens to the connectors our people already added in Claude or ChatGPT?
- They keep working until you remove them. The Loopthink connector is added the same way, as a custom connector with OAuth. In Claude Team and Enterprise a workspace owner adds it once; in ChatGPT Business a workspace admin does.
- Is there a migration fee?
- No. Pro is €19 per month and covers per-person identity, roles, masking and audit; Team is €49 and adds your own REST API and SQL databases. If you want us to build a server for you by hand, see loopthink.ai/enterprise.
- How current is this comparison?
- Every statement about MCP Manager carries a footnote with its source and the date we checked it. We review the page every quarter. If something has changed in the meantime, write to us and we correct it.
- What does Loopthink cost?
- Free for one person and two connectors, forever. Pro is €19 per month for five people, Team €49 for ten, then €5 per additional person. Prices are on the pricing page, no call needed. The private runner and Enterprise are on loopthink.ai/enterprise.
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One login per person, one matrix that decides who may do what, one audit trail across Claude and ChatGPT.
Free for 2 connectors, no card · Pro €19 · EU-hosted