Best Home Assistant AI connectors

Home Assistant connectors ranked by the latest check. Featured placements are labelled and pinned to the top. After that, rank follows live status, then official or vendor listings, then GitHub stars.

We currently track 5 connectors. The top of the list: Home Assistant MCP Server (built-in), Home Assistant MCP client (built-in), and ha-mcp.

#ConnectorStatusTypeWorks withAccessSetupPrice
1 Home Assistant MCP Server (built-in)Not yet tested Built-in Claude, ChatGPT, Any remote-MCP client (HA must be reachable)read-write2/5Free (part of Home Assistant)
2 Home Assistant MCP client (built-in)Not yet tested Built-in Home Assistant Assist (uses outside MCP tools)read-write3/5Free (part of Home Assistant)
3 ha-mcpNot yet tested Self-hosted Any MCP client (local), Claude (remote)read-write3/5Free (open source)
4 hass-mcpNot yet tested Self-hosted Any MCP client (local)read-write3/5Free (open source)
5 homeassistant-mcp (tevonsb)Stale Self-hosted Any MCP client (local)read-write3/5Free (open source)

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