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MCP ecosystem statistics

As of 2026-09-28, Glimind tracks 133,473 publicly discoverable MCP servers exposing 1,031,594 tools across 532 capability categories. 25,996 servers were added in the last 30 days. Of the 23,155 servers reachable at a public endpoint, 60.4% answered live at their latest check.

Ecosystem size

MCP servers tracked
133,473
tools indexed
1,031,594
capability categories
532
auth-gated servers
5,521

Growth

servers added · last 30 days
25,996
tools added · last 30 days
209,198

Reliability

live right now (of remote)
60.4%
reliability checks / 24h
963,273
open outages now
1,868
median recovery (90d)
5 min

Deeper reliability analysis — the most and least reliable capability categories, and what's breaking right now — lives in the State of MCP Reliability report and on the live outage page.

Largest capability categories

categorytools
data175,028browse →
knowledge134,699browse →
other109,909browse →
search66,467browse →
devops58,151browse →
finance58,124browse →
code47,118browse →
communication42,256browse →

Where MCP servers are published

package registryservers
other84,719
npm23,875
pypi21,242
nuget1,776
mcpb794
oci678
crates334
cargo55

FAQ

How many MCP servers are there?

133,473 publicly discoverable MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers as of 2026-09-28, per the Glimind census — compiled continuously from every public MCP registry, the npm/PyPI/crates/NuGet package indexes, and public code repositories, de-duplicated.

How many MCP tools are there?

1,031,594 tools (callable functions) are currently advertised across tracked MCP servers, spanning 532 capability categories, as of 2026-09-28.

How fast is the MCP ecosystem growing?

25,996 MCP servers were added to the public ecosystem in the last 30 days, as of 2026-09-28 — from 107,477 to 133,473.

What share of MCP servers are actually live?

Of the 23,155 tracked servers exposing a public remote endpoint, 60.4% answered live at their most recent reliability check. Glimind runs 963,273 safe liveness checks per day; 1,868 probe-observed outages are open right now, and the median outage over the last 90 days recovered in 5 minutes.

What are the largest MCP tool categories?

By tool count: data (175,028), knowledge (134,699), other (109,909), search (66,467), devops (58,151).

Where does this data come from and can I use it?

Glimind continuously crawls every public MCP registry and directory, the npm, PyPI, crates.io and NuGet package indexes, and public GitHub repositories, de-duplicates them into one census, and safely probes reachable servers around the clock (handshake-only — no tools are ever invoked). All figures on this page are CC BY 4.0: free to publish with attribution to Glimind (glimind.com/stats).

Methodology

Glimind compiles the census continuously from every public MCP registry and directory (the official MCP Registry, Smithery, PulseMCP, Glama, Docker, Cline and others), the npm, PyPI, crates.io and NuGet package indexes, curated community lists, and public GitHub repositories — de-duplicated by repository and package identity. Reachable servers are safely probed around the clock (handshake + advertised catalog only; no tools are ever invoked; operators can opt out). Figures update continuously and may be revised as sources change. License: CC BY 4.0 — cite "Glimind (glimind.com/stats)". Press inquiries: glimind.com/press.