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MCP ecosystem statistics

As of 2026-07-28, Glimind tracks 71,813 publicly discoverable MCP servers exposing 369,475 tools across 283 capability categories. 57,209 servers were added in the last 30 days. Of the 9,691 servers reachable at a public endpoint, 52.7% answered live at their latest check.

Ecosystem size

MCP servers tracked
71,813
tools indexed
369,475
capability categories
283
auth-gated servers
2,504

Growth

servers added · last 30 days
57,209
tools added · last 30 days
298,101

Reliability

live right now (of remote)
52.7%
reliability checks / 24h
1,059,679
open outages now
423
median recovery (90d)
1 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
data55,227browse →
knowledge48,660browse →
other38,768browse →
finance26,302browse →
search23,086browse →
devops20,331browse →
communication16,669browse →
productivity16,454browse →

Where MCP servers are published

package registryservers
other35,834
pypi18,445
npm15,180
nuget1,324
oci408
mcpb343
crates267
cargo12

FAQ

How many MCP servers are there?

71,813 publicly discoverable MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers as of 2026-07-28, 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?

369,475 tools (callable functions) are currently advertised across tracked MCP servers, spanning 283 capability categories, as of 2026-07-28.

How fast is the MCP ecosystem growing?

57,209 MCP servers were added to the public ecosystem in the last 30 days, as of 2026-07-28 — from 14,604 to 71,813.

What share of MCP servers are actually live?

Of the 9,691 tracked servers exposing a public remote endpoint, 52.7% answered live at their most recent reliability check. Glimind runs 1,059,679 safe liveness checks per day; 423 probe-observed outages are open right now, and the median outage over the last 90 days recovered in 1 minutes.

What are the largest MCP tool categories?

By tool count: data (55,227), knowledge (48,660), other (38,768), finance (26,302), search (23,086).

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.