State of MCP
67% of those with a known transport run locally over stdio, npx is the most common launcher, and 99% passed their latest health check. Every number on this page is computed live from the AllMCPs directory.
How big is the MCP ecosystem?
34,798 active servers, 8,155 added in the last 30 days. 208 carry the Official badge, meaning their maintainers proved ownership of the listing.
- 3,074Jul 2026
- 7,185Aug 2026
- 16,279Sep 2026
- 7,772Oct 2026
- 488Nov 2026 (so far)
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| Month | Listings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 2026 | 3,074 | 9% |
| Aug 2026 | 7,185 | 21% |
| Sep 2026 | 16,279 | 47% |
| Oct 2026 | 7,772 | 22% |
| Nov 2026 | 488 | 1% |
Local vs remote servers
67% of servers with a known transport run locally; 33% are hosted remote endpoints.
- Local (stdio)40%14,000
- Remote (HTTP)20%7,039
- Not determined40%13,759
See MCP transports explained for the trade-offs.
How local servers are launched
73% launch with npx (Node.js) and 27% with uvx (Python).
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| Launcher | Listings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| npx | 10,160 | 73% |
| uvx | 3,734 | 27% |
| bunx | 97 | 0.7% |
| python | 4 | 0.0% |
| pipx | 2 | 0.0% |
| node | 1 | 0.0% |
Authentication and pricing
41% need credentials; 68% are free to use.
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| Auth | Listings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| none | 9,222 | 59% |
| oauth | 3,175 | 20% |
| api_key | 2,718 | 17% |
| other | 474 | 3% |
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| Pricing | Listings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| free | 6,695 | 68% |
| freemium | 1,620 | 16% |
| byok | 1,064 | 11% |
| paid | 455 | 5% |
Licenses
MIT covers 85% of servers with a detected license.
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| License | Listings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| MIT | 11,555 | 85% |
| Apache-2.0 | 1,549 | 11% |
| AGPL-3.0 | 251 | 2% |
| Proprietary | 111 | 0.8% |
| GPL-3.0 | 58 | 0.4% |
| AGPL-3.0-or-later | 54 | 0.4% |
| GPL-3.0-or-later | 46 | 0.3% |
| ISC | 45 | 0.3% |
What MCP servers do
💻 Developer Tools make up 25% of the index.
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| Category | Listings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 💻 Developer Tools | 8,536 | 25% |
| 💰 Finance & Fintech | 4,425 | 13% |
| 🧠 Knowledge & Memory | 1,721 | 5% |
| 🔎 Search & Data Extraction | 1,345 | 4% |
| 💬 Communication | 1,292 | 4% |
| ⚖️ Legal | 1,251 | 4% |
| 🔒 Security | 1,214 | 3% |
| 🎯 Marketing | 1,064 | 3% |
| 🏢 Workplace & Productivity | 883 | 3% |
| 🎥 Multimedia Process | 882 | 3% |
| 🌐 Social Media | 801 | 2% |
| 🛒 E-Commerce | 775 | 2% |
Each has a full list in the category index, and the best-of rankings cover the most-used servers per topic.
Popularity
57% have fewer than 10 GitHub stars; only 365 have 1,000+.
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| GitHub stars | Listings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 0–9 | 19,779 | 57% |
| 10–99 | 3,012 | 9% |
| 100–999 | 1,015 | 3% |
| 1,000+ | 365 | 1% |
| not on GitHub / unknown | 10,627 | 31% |
Health and security
99% passed their latest health check; 482 of 15,227 scanned packages (3%) have a critical or high advisory on record.
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| Status | Listings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| healthy | 34,311 | 99% |
| offline | 370 | 1% |
| archived | 117 | 0.3% |
Advisories come from OSV.dev for each server's install package and count any version, not necessarily the current one. See MCP security best practices.
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 2026-11-08 11:44 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. "State of MCP: Model Context Protocol Ecosystem Statistics." Updated 2026-11-08. https://allmcps.com/state-of-mcp (CC BY 4.0)