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| Evidence field | Google Cloud Run MCPShortlist candidate | Cloudflare MCPMCP100 Recommended |
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| Provenance | ||
| Provenance details | First-party MCP Google · Publisher source ↗ | First-party MCP Cloudflare · Publisher source ↗ |
| Maintenance | ||
| Maintenance details | Repo: Not documented Package: Not documented | Repo: Sep 17, 2026 Package: Not documented |
| Popularity evidence | ||
| GitHub stars | 633 GitHub stars · checked 2026-10-20 | 880 GitHub stars · checked 2026-09-24T04:14:26.352000Z |
| Package downloads / 30 days | 33,890 package downloads / 30 days · checked 2026-10-20 | No reliable download data |
| Client coverage | ||
| Client coverage details | Not documented | Claude Code✓ Streamable HTTP Claude Desktop✓ Streamable HTTP Codex✓ Streamable HTTP VS Code✓ Streamable HTTP Cursor✓ Streamable HTTP OpenCode✓ Streamable HTTP |
| Client coverage note | Local stdio runs on your computer. Streamable HTTP connects to a remotely hosted MCP server. | |
| Access and data | ||
| Authentication | Google Cloud remote MCP authentication can use OAuth/application credentials or an IAM principal. Cloud Run MCP calls require MCP Tool User permission plus Cloud Run/service-account/artifact permissions appropriate to the requested action. | Cloudflare's managed broad MCP endpoint is https://mcp.cloudflare.com/mcp and uses Cloudflare OAuth with Streamable HTTP. The older cloudflare/mcp-server-cloudflare family is domain-specific and is not this profile's canonical identity. |
| Cost | Cloud Run is usage billed with free tiers. CPU, memory, requests, outbound data transfer and related networking can become billable beyond allowances. | Cloudflare does not document a separate fee for connecting to its managed MCP endpoints. Charges and limits for underlying Cloudflare products, the user's Cloudflare plan, and the AI client still apply. |
| Permissions | Cloud Run's MCP exposes read tools plus deployment tools. Required IAM roles can include Cloud Run Developer, Service Account User, Artifact Registry Reader and MCP Tool User for deployment workflows. | The Cloudflare API MCP server can search the typed Cloudflare API and execute calls across the authorized account. OAuth redirects the user to Cloudflare to select permissions. Product-specific servers expose narrower capabilities such as audit logs, DNS analytics, AI Gateway logs, GraphQL analytics, or documentation search. |
| Data handling | Not documented in the reviewed sources. The Cloud Run MCP reference does not make a separate MCP-specific retention/training claim; deployment tools can transmit container image references, archives, or inline source content to Google Cloud. | Tool requests are processed by Cloudflare's hosted MCP service. For the API server, generated JavaScript runs in an isolated Dynamic Worker sandbox and can read or modify data reachable through the granted Cloudflare API permissions. Product-specific servers may return logs, prompts and responses, configuration, analytics, documents, or security findings to the MCP client. |
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| Risk context | Deployment tools can create/update serving workloads, make services public depending on configuration, change production behavior, and create ongoing cloud spend. | The two-tool search/execute design can reach a very broad API surface. Prefer a product-specific endpoint where possible, grant minimum OAuth permissions, require confirmation for execute operations, inspect audit logs, and separate untrusted content from administrative actions. This review does not claim MCP100 execution testing. |
| Evidence date | ||
| Editorial review | 2026-10-19 | 2026-07-24 |
| Candidate evidence | 2026-10-19 | 2026-09-24T04:25:05.554391Z |
Popularity, maintenance, fit, permissions, and client support are independent evidence fields.
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