Serverdex Data Report
The State of MCP Servers
We index every server in the official Model Context Protocol registry. Here is what 61,855 of them look like today — how fast they are arriving, how they are built and run, and where the ecosystem is heading. Data as of 15 November 2026.
1. The explosion
The registry held a few hundred servers in late 2025. Through 2026 it has roughly doubled month over month: 845 new servers in February, 9,427 in September, 16,876 in October. New servers per month:
By first-published month. November 2026 is partial.
2. Remote won
MCP started as local stdio servers you install and run yourself. That is no longer the norm: 60% of servers (36,977) are now remote-only — a hosted HTTP endpoint with nothing to install. Only 32% ship as a local package alone.
41,636 servers expose a remote endpoint; streamable-HTTP is the dominant transport.
3. How they ship
Of the 24,214 servers with an installable package, npm dominates — the MCP toolchain is a JavaScript-first world, with Python a clear second.
4. What they do
The busiest categories in the directory (excluding the uncategorised tail).
5. What they are written in
Among the 9,526 servers with a public GitHub repository.
6. A few giants, a long tail
Attention is concentrated: 1,268,235 combined GitHub stars, but 92 servers hold over 1,000 each while most have none. The most-starred servers on Serverdex:
7. Open by default
MIT is the default license of the MCP ecosystem, by a wide margin.
Methodology
Figures are drawn from the Serverdex index of the official Model Context Protocol registry, as of 15 November 2026: 61,855 published servers. Growth is by a server's first publication date. Languages, stars and licenses cover the 9,526 servers with a resolvable public GitHub repository. "Remote-only" means a server advertises a remote HTTP endpoint and no installable package; "local" means the reverse. Package counts are by declared registry type and sum above the server count because a server may ship on more than one registry.
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