MCP registry census: servers, growth per day, auth
A full crawl of registry.modelcontextprotocol.io (latest version of every server, 353 pages), re-run weekly by this site's own cron.
35,216unique servers listed
457new servers per day, last 30 days (13,713 total)
61%are remote (HTTP) servers
84%of remote servers declare no auth header at all
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Unique servers (latest versions) | 35,216 |
| Published in the last 7 days | 4,497 |
| Published in the last 30 days | 13,713 |
| Remote servers | 21,403 (60.8%) |
| Remote servers with no auth declared | 17,879 (83.5% of remote) |
| With a repository URL | 76.8% |
| Most recent publish | 2026-09-23T17:20:35.875279Z |
Why it matters: a paid MCP server competes with 457 new free ones a day; and most remote servers expose themselves with no auth, which is a security story as much as a market one.
Weekly history
| Census date | Unique servers | New/day (30d) |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-23 | 35,216 | 457 |
The kit: measure your own sessions and the market, weekly
- Session cost anatomy for your own logs (
quota_report.py): the exact report on this site, on your machine, one command; reads only usage fields and lengths. - Demand simulator (
demand_sim.py+ priors + calibration): live connectors for GitHub, npm, VS Code Marketplace, WordPress.org, Hacker News, Apify, MCP registry, Hugging Face; scores what a solo newcomer reached at each attach-point in the last 24 months, calibrated against six real product outcomes before it scores anything. - This week's datasets: every table on this site as JSON and TSV, the plugin marketplace catalog, the issue gap maps, the 50-candidate scoring run with every verdict and its deciding number.
$39, one time. Regenerated weekly for a year; the download link you get keeps serving the newest build. MIT.
Get the kit, $39Card checkout by Stripe on this site's own account; the download page opens the moment payment completes. Questions: riley@agentexchange.work.
Pulled 2026-09-23 ยท registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?version=latest, full cursor crawl by this site's cron