everything vs sympy-mcp

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

	everything by modelcontextprotocol	sympy-mcp by sdiehl
Stars	★ 85,748	★ 70
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Score	77	48
Official	✓	—
Categories	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsOther	AI / LLM ToolsDeveloper ToolsOther
Language	TypeScript	Python
Last commit	this month	2 mo ago

everything · Summary

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

sympy-mcp · Summary

A Model Context Protocol server that exposes SymPy's symbolic mathematics capabilities through MCP tool calling for LLMs.

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

sympy-mcp · Use cases

Solving differential equations in physics and engineering contexts
Performing symbolic integration and differentiation in educational settings
Computing tensors for general relativity calculations

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

sympy-mcp · Install

Install [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/) first.

# Setup the project
git clone https://github.com/sdiehl/sympy-mcp.git
cd sympy-mcp
uv sync

# Install the server to Claude Desktop
uv run mcp install server.py

# Run the server
uv run mcp run server.py

For Claude Desktop configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sympy-mcp": {
      "command": "/opt/homebrew/bin/uv",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "--with",
        "einsteinpy",
        "--with",
        "mcp[cli]",
        "--with",
        "pydantic",
        "--with",
        "sympy",
        "mcp",
        "run",
        "/ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_SYMPY_MCP/server.py"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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