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
MeasureValue
Unique servers (latest versions)35,216
Published in the last 7 days4,497
Published in the last 30 days13,713
Remote servers21,403 (60.8%)
Remote servers with no auth declared17,879 (83.5% of remote)
With a repository URL76.8%
Most recent publish2026-09-23T17:20:35.875279Z

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 dateUnique serversNew/day (30d)
2026-09-2335,216457

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Pulled 2026-09-23 ยท registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?version=latest, full cursor crawl by this site's cron