WordPress MCP plugins for Claude and ChatGPT, compared.
Several plugins connect Claude or ChatGPT to WordPress. This page compares five of them, AlphaBridge included, on eight questions. Each cell follows the vendor's own pages. All sources are listed below the table.
Eight questions that matter.
Products change quickly. Please check the vendors’ own pages before deciding, and tell us if anything here has gone stale. “Not described” means: not found in the vendor’s public documentation on the date given below the table. It is not a claim that the product lacks it.
| Question | AlphaBridge MCP | Novamira | Easy MCP AI | Cowboy MCP | WP Umbrella |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rights per connection: scope and expiry | Per connection, in the free pluginRead-only, content-only or full, with optional expiry. With Pro, content-only blocks the tools that change theme and plugin files, settings and the database. | Not described | Per tokenWordPress user, tool subset, expiry (30 days by default). | Per key or OAuth connectionChoice of full access, read-only or a custom tool list. | Not described |
| What the AI may do right after install | Read onlyTools that create, change or delete stay locked until an administrator switches on write access. | Nothing until one switch enables the abilitiesThen PHP execution, WP-CLI, file writes and the database ($wpdb). | Content and site dataUser and site-control tools are off on a fresh install. | WP-CLI, files in wp-content, database and usersSafe mode asks for confirmation for tools marked destructive. Schema-destroying SQL, eval and shell need Power mode. | Fleet actionsPlugin and theme updates, database optimisation, reports. |
| A way back | Undo per change, with ProKept 7 days by default (1 to 30). Page-builder pages come back byte for byte. Agency: ZIP deploys optionally atomic, rolled back when the swap fails. | Crash recoveryIsolates a broken sandbox file. | Change history with snapshotsBefore/after snapshots; post revisions can be restored. | Undo journal per change7 days, database checkpoints, file backup on plugin and theme updates. | Rollback of updatesPlugin and theme updates with backup and health check; backups in the dashboard. |
| Audit log inside WordPress | Yes, in the free pluginThe latest 200 tool calls with user, tool and result. | Usage details per connection | Yes, when logging is onEvery tool call including refused ones; 30 days. | YesEvery tool call, error and authentication event; 30 days. | On the vendor's sideIn the WP Umbrella dashboard. |
| Deploy from the plugin | Yes, with AgencyFiles, themes and whole builds onto your own hosting over SFTP. ZIP deploys optionally atomic with rollback. | Uploads through a temporary linkPlugins, themes, media and ZIPs; file abilities. | Uploads to the media library | Files in wp-contentPlugin and theme installs from WordPress.org. | Not described |
| Many sites in one chat | Up to 10 sites, freeHosted hub in every edition. Each site is approved on its own login. | Desktop app Novamira HQ (beta)Free, bundles sites on your own computer. | Not described | Not described | All sites in the accountOne token and a hosted MCP server. |
| Where the data lives | Plugin on your site, hub with a DPAThe free plugin contacts no service on its own. The hub keeps the sites’ access keys (encrypted) and the connection records in the EU. The Claude sign-in data are in Workers KV, stored centrally and cached worldwide; no storage region can be set. Pro and Agency talk to Freemius for the licence and updates. | On your own site | On your own siteSends nothing to the vendor. | On your own siteWithout telemetry. | Hosted in FranceBy Scaleway; DPA published. |
| Price | Free, Pro $49/yearOr $9/month. Agency $299/year or $49/month. Free plugin with 40 tools, hub free. | Free, Pro from €49/yearPro Personal for 3 sites, Agency €149/year, Lifetime €299, HQ free. | FreeAll 244 tools. | FreeGPL-2.0. | €1.99 per site and month14-day trial, add-ons extra, MCP and API included. |
Sources, read on 2026-09-26 unless noted otherwise. AlphaBridge: the plugin on WordPress.org, tool reference, pricing, hub privacy notice, hub DPA. Novamira (not listed on WordPress.org): security, authentication, live site, recommended setup, getting started, Novamira HQ, pricing. Easy MCP AI: WordPress.org, API tokens, audit log, roadmap, changelog, privacy. Cowboy MCP: WordPress.org, security, undo guide, safety guide. WP Umbrella: umbrella-skill on GitHub, pricing, legal notice, DPA, its plugin on WordPress.org. MCP Adapter: WordPress.org, GitHub (read 2026-10-02). Spotted an error? Tell us — we correct quickly.
Why we don't compare tool counts.
Because the numbers don't measure the same thing. Easy MCP AI counts 244 tools, some of them for an SEO or analytics provider you connect yourself. Cowboy MCP lists 168. Novamira ships nine abilities — and one of them is "Execute PHP", which by itself stands in for many single operations. WP Umbrella exposes 37 API operations for fleet maintenance.
AlphaBridge’s own count has the same caveat: 143 tools, 40 of them free. The WooCommerce, SEO and PHP snippet tools are only useful with the plugins they work with. A single number tells you very little about any of these products. What the tools let you actually do, does.
Managing and publishing share one plugin.
The deploy row of the table above, explained.
Deploy lives inside the plugin
Standalone MCP file-transfer tools exist — as separate software running outside WordPress. AlphaBridge is a WordPress plugin. Site management and file publishing sit behind the same endpoint, the same permissions and the same audit log.
Credentials stay on your server
Deploy credentials are encrypted with libsodium inside WordPress, and no tool returns them. They don't sit in a desktop config file or pass through the AI client.
Checks the target first
Before a file moves, AlphaBridge checks the target. It must be the server your site runs on. A mistyped host or a redirected target fails before anything is uploaded.
When another tool is the better pick.
- Easy MCP AI — free with 244 tools, per-token scopes and an audit log.
- Cowboy MCP — an undo journal per change, database checkpoints and a safe mode that asks before destructive calls. Free.
- Novamira — PHP execution and WP-CLI with full WordPress access. For developers who want the AI to write code on the site itself. Plus a free desktop app that bundles your sites locally.
- WP Umbrella — fleet maintenance for agencies: updates, backups, uptime and reports for many sites. Hosted in the EU with a DPA.
- MCP Adapter — the WordPress project's own building block, free. It makes the abilities that plugins mark as public reachable over MCP, over HTTP or STDIO. It works with the rights of the signed-in user. What it offers comes from those plugins. It suits developers who assemble their own MCP server.
See the difference in practice.
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