Deploy Your MCP Server to Google Cloud Run (For Free)

Introduction You've built an MCP server. It works on localhost. Your AI assistant can call tools, fetch data, and do useful things, as long as everything runs on your machine. But what happens when you want to share it with your team? Or connect to it from a different device? Or just keep it running without your laptop open? You need to deploy it. This guide walks you through deploying a Streamable HTTP MCP server to Google Cloud Run, from scaffolding to a live URL in minutes. Streamable HTTP is the transport designed for remote deployments: it works over standard HTTPS, plays nicely with load balancers, and doesn't require the client to run your server as a subprocess. Note : If you're working with a stdio MCP server, the deployment path is different. We'll cover that briefly at the end of this article. If you've already built an MCP server using our first MCP server guide , you can deploy that project directly. Otherwise, we'll scaffold a fresh one below. What you'll learn: How to sc