Hosted Slack MCP alternatives
The Slack MCP server runs locally over stdio; there is no managed endpoint you add by URL. If you would rather not run a server at all, and just authenticate to a hosted one, you need a different tool.
Every option below is a managed remote endpoint you reach by URL with OAuth, nothing to operate. One honest note: the hosted servers that line up against Slack are productivity and project tools, not chat servers, because that is where most teams' Slack usage actually turns into tracked work.
The 8 best hosted alternatives
Notion's hosted server searches, reads, and writes pages and databases over OAuth, the managed pick when the thread really needed a document rather than a channel.
Set up Notion →Add it by URL and Doist's Todoist server creates, finds, updates, and completes tasks, projects, labels, and reminders, turning the asks buried in Slack into a tracked list.
Set up Todoist →- ClickUpOfficial
The broadest single workspace here is ClickUp's official remote server: tasks, lists, folders, docs, time tracking, and chat, so it can absorb both project work and some conversation over one URL.
Set up ClickUp → - LinearOfficial
For engineering work that begins in a Slack thread, Linear's official remote server creates, searches, and updates issues and projects with nothing to run.
Set up Linear → Atlassian's official remote server covers Jira and Confluence, reading, searching, creating, and updating issues and pages, so it handles both the tickets and the docs a Slack discussion spawns.
Set up Atlassian (Jira & Confluence) →Teams whose work runs on boards reach monday.com's official server, which creates and updates items, manages boards, columns, and groups, and queries the API over a hosted connection.
Set up monday.com →Open-core and Jira-shaped, Plane exposes its full project API over a hosted endpoint, work items, cycles, modules, and more, when a Slack channel was really tracking a project.
Set up Plane →Product teams can point an agent at Shortcut's hosted server, which finds, creates, and updates Stories, Epics, Iterations, Objectives, and Docs, turning discussion into planned work.
Set up Shortcut →
How to choose
Since the Slack server is local-only, every option here trades that for a managed URL, and none of them is a chat server. They fit when the real output of a Slack conversation was a document or a tracked task: Notion and Confluence for docs, Linear, Plane, Shortcut, monday, and Todoist for work items, ClickUp as the broadest workspace. If the agent genuinely belongs in chat, stay on the local Slack server.
FAQ
- Does the Slack MCP server have a hosted version?
- No. The community Slack server installs locally over stdio, so there is no managed endpoint to add by URL. The servers on this page are hosted alternatives, each reached over a URL with OAuth and nothing to run.
- Is there a hosted MCP server that reads chat like Slack?
- Not on this list. These hosted options are productivity and project tools, not chat servers, suited to the tasks and docs a Slack thread produces. For chat specifically, the self-hosted and open-source cuts include messaging servers like Telegram and LINE.