Unla vs everything

Side-by-side comparison to help you pick between these two MCP servers.

	Unla by AmoyLab	everything by modelcontextprotocol
Stars	★ 2,113	★ 85,748
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Score	54	77
Official	—	✓
Categories	Ops & InfraDeveloper ToolsAI / LLM Tools	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsOther
Language	TypeScript	TypeScript
Last commit	1 mo ago	this month

Unla · Summary

Unla is a lightweight gateway service that transforms existing MCP Servers and APIs into MCP endpoints without code changes.

everything · Summary

Official MCP test server exercising all protocol features for client builders.

Unla · Use cases

Convert legacy REST APIs to MCP Servers without code changes
Proxy existing MCP services through a centralized gateway
Provide multi-tenant support and session persistence for MCP endpoints

everything · Use cases

Testing MCP client implementations against all protocol features
Learning MCP protocol capabilities through a reference server
Validating client compatibility with different transport methods

Unla · Install

Quick Install with Docker

# Set environment variables
export APISERVER_JWT_SECRET_KEY="changeme-please-generate-a-random-secret"
export SUPER_ADMIN_USERNAME="admin"
export SUPER_ADMIN_PASSWORD="changeme-please-use-a-secure-password"

# Run the container
docker run -d \
  --name unla \
  -p 8080:80 \
  -p 5234:5234 \
  -p 5235:5235 \
  -p 5335:5335 \
  -p 5236:5236 \
  -e ENV=production \
  -e TZ=Asia/Shanghai \
  -e APISERVER_JWT_SECRET_KEY=${APISERVER_JWT_SECRET_KEY} \
  -e SUPER_ADMIN_USERNAME=${SUPER_ADMIN_USERNAME} \
  -e SUPER_ADMIN_PASSWORD=${SUPER_ADMIN_PASSWORD} \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  ghcr.io/amoylab/unla/allinone:latest

For Claude Desktop configuration, add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "unla": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": ["run", "--rm", "-p", "5235:5235", "ghcr.io/amoylab/unla/allinone:latest"],
      "env": {
        "APISERVER_JWT_SECRET_KEY": "your-secret-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

everything · Install

NPX (recommended)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everything": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-everything"]
    }
  }
}

On Windows, use cmd /c:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everything": {
      "command": "cmd",
      "args": ["/c", "npx", "-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-everything"]
    }
  }
}

Docker

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everything": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "mcp/everything"]
    }
  }
}

Global install

npm install -g @modelcontextprotocol/server-everything@latest
npx @modelcontextprotocol/server-everything

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