# IDA Pro MCP

5 Hacker News commenters recommended IDA Pro MCP and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free plugin that lets AI coding agents like Codex drive IDA Pro for decompiling and patching software; people say it works well and beats Ghidra MCP.

## Why people recommend it

- Works well with AI coding agents (4 comments): "I've been decompiling and patching a wide range of software using codex with ida-pro-mcp" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46853793)) "with minimal guidance and IDA MCP these new models are able to do this" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50062109)) "IDA Pro MCP works extremely well for me for all manner of tasks" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49979969))
- Better architected than Ghidra MCP (2 comments): "The IDA Pro MCP is substantially better than the most popular Ghidra MCP" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980730)) "the IDA Pro MCP is much better architected and seems to be pretty good" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980773))
- Effective for unattended reverse engineering (2 comments): "with minimal guidance and IDA MCP these new models are able to do this" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50062109)) "it's pretty damn good at unattended RE with the IDA MCP plugin" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882098))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Ghidra](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ghidra.md): 80 recommend
- [GhidraMCP](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ghidra-mcp.md): 30 recommend
- [IDA Pro](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ida-pro.md): 25 recommend
- [REA Reverse-Engineer Anything](https://hackerapproved.com/p/rea-reverse-engineer-anything.md): 14 recommend
- [Binary Ninja](https://hackerapproved.com/p/binary-ninja.md): 13 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "IDA Pro MCP", https://hackerapproved.com/p/ida-pro-mcp/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).