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<h3>An AI-native local development foundation designed to empower AI agents. ServBay allows your AI agents, such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex, to write code and provides a robust environment for running it. It supports over 50 services, databases, domains, SSL, and local models, all managed on your own machine. This free solution is available for macOS and Windows.</h3><ul><li>AI-Native Development: Integrates seamlessly with AI coding agents, providing them with a real development environment to execute their code.</li><li>MCP Server: Connects AI agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex with one click. Agents can manage services, install packages, create sites with domains and SSL, read logs, and query databases across 50+ services.</li><li>AI Gateway: Offers a single local endpoint for all AI models and keys, managing Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter, and local Ollama with usage tracking and automatic fallback. Your API keys remain encrypted locally.</li><li>Local Models: Enables downloading and running Ollama models directly on your machine, exposed through a single endpoint for project use without requiring keys or complex setup.</li><li>Comprehensive Local Stack: Supports a wide array of development languages (PHP, Node.js, Python, Go, Java, .NET, Ruby, Rust) and databases (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis). Includes web servers, local DNS, free SSL, a built-in mail server, tunnels, and reverse proxy.</li><li>Multi-Version Support: Allows running and switching between multiple versions of programming languages and databases side-by-side without interference, ideal for project-specific requirements.</li><li>Domain Names and DNS: Features a built-in DNS service for using non-existent domain names and issuing free SSL certificates, saving costs and enhancing security.</li><li>Mail Server: Includes a built-in mail server with POP3/SMTP support, STARTTLS, SSL/TLS, SMTP Relay, SpamAssassin, and a WebMail interface.</li><li>SSL Certificates: Provides a built-in PKI system for creating CA and issuing SSL certificates for domains, S/MIME, code signing, and document signing. Supports ACME for certificates from Let's Encrypt, ZeroSSL, and Google Trust Services with automatic renewal.</li><li>Reverse Proxy: Supports features like Ngrok, Pinggy.io, FRP, and Oray Peanut Shell to expose internal ServBay services to the external network, useful for webhooks and secure tunnels.</li></ul>Trusted by over 100,000 developers worldwide, ServBay simplifies the setup and management of local development environments, allowing developers to focus more on coding.