diff --git a/src/mcp/shared/auth.py b/src/mcp/shared/auth.py
index 3b48152d5b..474f125a92 100644
--- a/src/mcp/shared/auth.py
+++ b/src/mcp/shared/auth.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from typing import Any, Literal
+from urllib.parse import urlsplit, urlunsplit
 
-from pydantic import AnyHttpUrl, AnyUrl, BaseModel, Field, field_validator
+from pydantic import AnyHttpUrl, AnyUrl, BaseModel, Field, field_serializer, field_validator
 
 
 class OAuthToken(BaseModel):
@@ -168,3 +169,18 @@ class ProtectedResourceMetadata(BaseModel):
     dpop_signing_alg_values_supported: list[str] | None = None
     # dpop_bound_access_tokens_required default is False, but omitted here for clarity
     dpop_bound_access_tokens_required: bool | None = None
+
+    @field_serializer("resource")
+    def _serialize_resource(self, value: AnyHttpUrl) -> str:
+        """Preserve canonical root resources without a trailing slash.
+
+        Pydantic normalizes `https://example.com` to `https://example.com/`.
+        RFC 9728 resource metadata is compared as a canonical resource URL, so
+        when the resource path is the origin root we serialize it back without
+        that synthetic slash.
+        """
+        url = str(value)
+        parsed = urlsplit(url)
+        if parsed.path != "/":
+            return url
+        return urlunsplit((parsed.scheme, parsed.netloc, "", parsed.query, parsed.fragment))
diff --git a/tests/server/auth/test_protected_resource.py b/tests/server/auth/test_protected_resource.py
index 413a80276e..aca1209577 100644
--- a/tests/server/auth/test_protected_resource.py
+++ b/tests/server/auth/test_protected_resource.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 from starlette.applications import Starlette
 
 from mcp.server.auth.routes import build_resource_metadata_url, create_protected_resource_routes
+from mcp.shared.auth import ProtectedResourceMetadata
 
 
 @pytest.fixture
@@ -96,7 +97,7 @@ async def test_metadata_endpoint_without_path(root_resource_client: httpx.AsyncC
     assert response.status_code == 200
     assert response.json() == snapshot(
         {
-            "resource": "https://example.com/",
+            "resource": "https://example.com",
             "authorization_servers": ["https://auth.example.com/"],
             "scopes_supported": ["read"],
             "resource_name": "Root Resource",
@@ -105,6 +106,15 @@ async def test_metadata_endpoint_without_path(root_resource_client: httpx.AsyncC
     )
 
 
+def test_root_resource_serializes_without_trailing_slash():
+    metadata = ProtectedResourceMetadata(
+        resource=AnyHttpUrl("https://example.com"),
+        authorization_servers=[AnyHttpUrl("https://auth.example.com")],
+    )
+
+    assert metadata.model_dump(mode="json")["resource"] == "https://example.com"
+
+
 # Tests for URL construction utility function