Unla (MCP Gateway)

Unla is a lightweight MCP gateway written in Go that converts existing REST APIs and MCP servers into MCP-compliant SSE or Streamable HTTP endpoints with zero code changes, providing multi-tenant management, OAuth pre-auth, JWT support, and hot-reload configuration.

Evaluated Mar 07, 2026 (0d ago) vlatest
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⚙ Agent Friendliness
74
/ 100
Can an agent use this?
🔒 Security
76
/ 100
Is it safe for agents?
⚡ Reliability
68
/ 100
Does it work consistently?

Score Breakdown

⚙ Agent Friendliness

MCP Quality
78
Documentation
75
Error Messages
65
Auth Simplicity
78
Rate Limits
68

🔒 Security

TLS Enforcement
90
Auth Strength
75
Scope Granularity
68
Dep. Hygiene
78
Secret Handling
72

MCP server management platform. Manages multiple MCP server instances. Admin access controls all connected servers — protect carefully. Audit tool access patterns.

⚡ Reliability

Uptime/SLA
70
Version Stability
70
Breaking Changes
65
Error Recovery
68
AF Security Reliability

Best When

You manage multiple MCP servers or need to expose existing REST APIs as MCP tools for a team, and want centralized auth, versioning, and multi-tenant configuration without touching service code.

Avoid When

You have a single MCP server and one user — the operational complexity of running a gateway isn't justified.

Use Cases

  • • Exposing legacy REST APIs as MCP tools without modifying the underlying service
  • • Running a centralized MCP gateway for a team with multi-tenant isolation and version-controlled configurations
  • • Deploying MCP servers behind a managed proxy with OAuth pre-authentication and JWT token management

Not For

  • • Single-developer setups that only need a simple MCP server — the gateway overhead is unnecessary
  • • Teams that need gRPC or WebSocket protocol conversion today (planned but not yet available)
  • • Users who need a hosted/managed gateway service rather than self-hosted infrastructure

Interface

REST API
Yes
GraphQL
No
gRPC
No
MCP Server
Yes ↗
SDK
No
Webhooks
No

Authentication

Methods: jwt oauth2 basic
OAuth: Yes Scopes: No

JWT token auth for API access; OAuth pre-authentication for upstream MCP servers; admin/password credentials for management UI.

Pricing

Model: open_source
Free tier: Yes
Requires CC: No

MIT licensed open source. Self-hosted; infrastructure costs only.

Agent Metadata

Pagination
none
Idempotent
Partial
Retry Guidance
Not documented

Known Gotchas

  • ⚠ Multiple ports required (8080, 5234, 5235, 5335, 5236) — firewall config needed
  • ⚠ Active development means breaking changes possible during upgrades
  • ⚠ gRPC and WebSocket protocol support is planned but not yet available
  • ⚠ Session persistence/recovery adds statefulness that agents must account for

Alternatives

mcp-proxy ngrok-mcp cloudflare-workers-mcp

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