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MCP ecosystem statistics

As of 2026-10-13, Glimind tracks 142,597 publicly discoverable MCP servers exposing 1,144,375 tools across 580 capability categories. 20,577 servers were added in the last 31 days. Of the 24,574 servers reachable at a public endpoint, 59.3% answered live at their latest check.

Ecosystem size

MCP servers tracked
142,597
tools indexed
1,144,375
capability categories
580
auth-gated servers
6,093

Growth

servers added · last 31 days
20,577
tools added · last 31 days
173,190

Reliability

live right now (of remote)
59.3%
reliability checks / 24h
1,255,885
open outages now
2,113
median recovery (90d)
7 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
data193,912browse →
knowledge145,747browse →
other119,613browse →
search72,520browse →
devops64,205browse →
finance62,716browse →
code52,553browse →
communication48,095browse →

Where MCP servers are published

package registryservers
other91,611
npm25,314
pypi21,802
nuget1,983
mcpb802
oci679
crates351
cargo55

FAQ

How many MCP servers are there?

142,597 publicly discoverable MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers as of 2026-10-13, 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?

1,144,375 tools (callable functions) are currently advertised across tracked MCP servers, spanning 580 capability categories, as of 2026-10-13.

How fast is the MCP ecosystem growing?

20,577 MCP servers were added to the public ecosystem in the last 31 days, as of 2026-10-13 — from 122,020 to 142,597.

What share of MCP servers are actually live?

Of the 24,574 tracked servers exposing a public remote endpoint, 59.3% answered live at their most recent reliability check. Glimind runs 1,255,885 safe liveness checks per day; 2,113 probe-observed outages are open right now, and the median outage over the last 90 days recovered in 7 minutes.

What are the largest MCP tool categories?

By tool count: data (193,912), knowledge (145,747), other (119,613), search (72,520), devops (64,205).

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.