State of MCP

There are 22,472 active Model Context Protocol servers in the AllMCPs index as of 2026-09-24. 60% of those with a known transport run locally over stdio, npx is the most common launcher, and 97% passed their latest health check. Every number on this page is computed live from the directory.

How big is the MCP ecosystem?

22,472 active servers, 13,255 added in the last 30 days and 22,472 in the last 90. 78 carry the Official badge, meaning their maintainers proved ownership of the listing.

Servers added to the AllMCPs index per month. This measures when we indexed a server, not when it was created — the index began in mid-2026, so early months include the backlog of existing servers.
ValueListingsShareRelative size
2026-073,10614%
2026-087,42933%
2026-0911,93753%

Local vs remote servers

Local servers run as a subprocess of the client over stdio; remote servers are hosted endpoints reached over HTTP. See MCP transports explained for the trade-offs.

Install transport, as extracted from each server's documentation.
ValueListingsShareRelative size
Local (stdio)9,00640%
Not determined7,46133%
Remote (HTTP)6,00527%

How local servers are launched

Launcher for stdio servers with a verified install command.
ValueListingsShareRelative size
npx6,10768%
uvx2,74731%
bunx1462%
python20.0%
pipx20.0%
python310.0%

Authentication and pricing

Shares below are of servers where the value could be determined from documentation (3,158 for auth, 3,129 for pricing), not of the whole index.

Authentication required.
ValueListingsShareRelative size
none1,49247%
api_key1,20838%
other2759%
oauth1836%
Pricing model.
ValueListingsShareRelative size
free2,17870%
byok46815%
freemium36212%
paid1214%

Licenses

MIT is the most common license, on 84% of servers with a detected license.

Top licenses.
ValueListingsShareRelative size
MIT1,78684%
Apache-2.024712%
AGPL-3.0532%
GPL-3.0200.9%
Proprietary120.6%
ISC60.3%
Elastic-2.050.2%
BUSL-1.150.2%

What MCP servers do

Largest categories in the directory. Each links to its full list from the category index, and the best-of rankings cover the most-used servers per topic.

Top categories.
ValueListingsShareRelative size
💻 Developer Tools11,53351%
💰 Finance & Fintech2,31010%
🧠 Knowledge & Memory1,0575%
🔒 Security7573%
💬 Communication7193%
🗄️ Databases5462%
🔎 Search & Data Extraction4482%
☁️ Cloud Platforms3962%
⚖️ Legal3472%
🌐 Social Media3371%
📊 Monitoring3351%
🏢 Workplace & Productivity3241%

Popularity

GitHub stars per server. Most servers are small, single-maintainer projects.
ValueListingsShareRelative size
0–914,81966%
10–992,1289%
100–9997383%
1,000+2461%
not on GitHub / unknown4,54120%

Health and security

Health is rechecked continuously by the directory's health monitor. Security advisories come from OSV.dev for each server's install package: 509 of 10,157 scanned packages (5%) have a critical or high advisory filed against at least one version — not necessarily the current one. See MCP security best practices.

Latest health check result.
ValueListingsShareRelative size
healthy21,87097%
offline3422%
unknown1750.8%
archived850.4%

Methodology and citing this data

Figures cover listings with active status in AllMCPs, which ingests public MCP servers from the official MCP Registry, community server lists and direct submissions, merges duplicates, and removes archived or deleted repositories. Transport, runner, auth, pricing and license are extracted from each server's documentation and verified where possible; values that could not be determined are excluded from the shares that depend on them. Numbers refresh every few hours; last computed 2026-09-24 07:29 UTC.

You are welcome to cite these figures with a link to this page (CC BY 4.0). Programmatic access is available through the AllMCPs API.

AllMCPs indexes 22,472 active MCP servers as of 2026-09-24, with 13,255 added in the last 30 days. The count covers public servers from the official MCP Registry, community server lists and direct submissions, after merging duplicates and removing archived projects.