Field notes
State of MCP
42,182 servers are in this snapshot(checked Oct 17, 2026, 1:53 AM UTC).26,067 expose a remote URL. The rest are stdio packages or GitHub topic repositories, which we do not run.
Alive
13,954
33.1% of the snapshot
Needs login
9,018
21.4%
Dead
3,095
7.3%
Stdio
16,115
38.2%
What “alive” costs
Among servers that answered, the median tool list is 1,836 o200k tokens and the median tool count is 7. That number is the price of loading the server, before a single tool runs.
- 0–199618
- 200–4991378
- 500–9992051
- 1,000–1,9993178
- 2,000–4,9992486
- 5,000+4241
Where the names cluster
Categories come from the server’s own name and description. A GitHub URL does not make a server a GitHub integration.19 repositories are archived. 949 named a license we could read.
| Category | Servers |
|---|---|
| GitHub | 25,929 |
| Other | 15,042 |
| Memory | 1,121 |
| 785 | |
| Browser automation | 454 |
| Databases | 330 |
| Calendar | 252 |
| Web search | 234 |
| Git | 201 |
| Docker | 199 |
| Postgres | 191 |
| AWS | 118 |
| Cloudflare | 113 |
| Productivity | 81 |
| Kubernetes | 67 |
| Slack | 60 |
| Filesystem | 53 |
| Observability | 50 |
| Google Drive | 20 |
| Notion | 20 |
GitHub topic mcp-server has 38,585 public repositories. Search returns 1000, so this snapshot keeps the 1000 with the most stars.