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MCP Ecosystem Explodes with 13K+ Servers and 97M Monthly Downloads

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem is experiencing rapid growth, with over 13,000 servers registered on npm and GitHub as of May 2026. Monthly SDK downloads have surged to 97 million, a threefold increase in six months, and new server registrations are up 400% year-over-year. Anthropic's official servers alone account for 48,500 downloads per month for their filesystem component. Despite this expansion, a significant challenge remains in discovering and accessing the right MCP servers, a problem being addressed by new tools like `mcp-hub`. AI

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MCP Ecosystem Explodes with 13K+ Servers and 97M Monthly Downloads

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · GrahamduesCN ·

    MCP in 2026: The numbers behind the ecosystem explosion

    <p>I spent an afternoon digging through the MCP ecosystem numbers. Here is what I found.</p> <h2> The numbers </h2> <ul> <li> <strong>13,000+ MCP servers</strong> on npm and GitHub (as of May 2026)</li> <li> <strong>97 million monthly SDK downloads</strong> — that is 3x from 6 mo…

  2. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · GrahamduesCN ·

    MCP in 2026: The numbers behind the ecosystem explosion

    <p>I spent an afternoon digging through the MCP ecosystem numbers. Here is what I found.</p> <h2> The numbers </h2> <ul> <li> <strong>13,000+ MCP servers</strong> on npm and GitHub (as of May 2026)</li> <li> <strong>97 million monthly SDK downloads</strong> — that is 3x from 6 mo…

  3. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · HM Cheng ·

    MCP Ecosystem Report — June 2026

    <p>We generate this report monthly from our live database of 39,762 MCP servers. Here's the state of the ecosystem as of June 2026.</p> <h2> Ecosystem Pulse </h2> <div class="table-wrapper-paragraph"><table> <thead> <tr> <th>Metric</th> <th>Value</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> …

  4. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · GrahamduesCN ·

    MCP in 2026: The numbers behind the ecosystem explosion

    <p>I spent an afternoon digging through the MCP ecosystem numbers. Here is what I found.</p> <h2> The numbers </h2> <ul> <li> <strong>13,000+ MCP servers</strong> on npm and GitHub (as of May 2026)</li> <li> <strong>97 million monthly SDK downloads</strong> — that is 3x from 6 mo…