MCP in 2026: The numbers behind the ecosystem explosion
I spent an afternoon digging through the MCP ecosystem numbers. Here is what I found. The numbers 13,000+ MCP servers on npm and GitHub (as of May 2026) 97 million monthly SDK downloads — that is 3x from 6 months ago 400% YoY growth in new server registrations Anthropic official servers reach 48,500 downloads/month for filesystem alone What this means MCP is not just a protocol anymore. It is becoming the standard way to give AI models access to tools — databases, A...
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