| --- |
| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| pretty_name: MCP Toplist — MCP Ecosystem Dataset |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - model-context-protocol |
| - mcp |
| - software-ecosystems |
| - registries |
| - agents |
| size_categories: |
| - 100K<n<1M |
| configs: |
| - config_name: servers |
| data_files: servers.parquet |
| - config_name: registry_daily |
| data_files: registry_daily.parquet |
| --- |
| |
| # MCP Ecosystem Dataset |
|
|
| A daily-refreshed, research-friendly snapshot of the **Model Context Protocol (MCP) |
| server ecosystem**, published by [mcptoplist.com](https://mcptoplist.com). It covers |
| every server tracked across the five major MCP registries — the Official MCP Registry, |
| Glama, Smithery, mcp.so, and PulseMCP — deduplicated to canonical entities, with |
| per-registry membership and daily registry growth series. |
|
|
| - **Current version:** v2026-10-27 (generated 2026-10-27) |
| - **License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — free to use |
| with attribution to [mcptoplist.com](https://mcptoplist.com) |
| - **Refresh cadence:** daily (~04:30 UTC, after the overnight registry syncs settle); each day is one commit, so any past day is retrievable from the repo history |
| - **Collection methodology:** <https://mcptoplist.com/methodology> and |
| <https://mcptoplist.com/sources> |
|
|
| ## What is MCP? |
|
|
| The [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) is an open standard that |
| lets AI assistants connect to external tools and data sources. Since its launch in |
| November 2024 an ecosystem of tens of thousands of MCP servers has grown across several |
| competing registries. This dataset measures that ecosystem: which servers exist, where |
| they are listed, and how each registry has grown over time. |
|
|
| ## Files |
|
|
| ### `servers.parquet` — 157,083 rows, one per canonical server |
|
|
| Registries list the same server under different names and keys; rows here are |
| **canonical entities** after cross-registry deduplication (repository-URL and |
| package-identifier resolution, plus rename tracking). |
|
|
| Bulk-listing floods are left out, here and in `registry_daily.parquet`: an |
| official-registry namespace that lists 200+ servers, averaging 50+ per |
| repository, nearly all remote and all served from at most two hosts (one |
| deployment published under thousands of names). So are repository clone |
| farms: bursts of zero-star, zero-fork copies of an existing repository name |
| on a crawler registry (Glama), listed by no other registry and backed by no |
| package, where the copies outnumber the name's established owners (2026-10: |
| throwaway GitHub accounts re-uploading existing MCP servers, ~5.5k listings). |
| Both rules are mechanical and are the same ones the site applies, so dataset |
| and leaderboard agree on which servers exist; a listing returns as soon as it |
| gains a star, a fork, a package or a second registry. |
|
|
| | Column | Type | Description | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | `canonical_server_key` | string | Stable canonical key (`srv_` + hash). Joins across dataset versions. | |
| | `name` | string | Server name from the canonical listing. | |
| | `repo_url` | string | Canonical source repository URL, when known. | |
| | `on_official_mcp_registry` | bool | Ever listed on the Official MCP Registry. | |
| | `on_glama` | bool | Ever listed on Glama. | |
| | `on_smithery` | bool | Ever listed on Smithery. | |
| | `on_mcp_so` | bool | Ever listed on mcp.so. | |
| | `on_pulsemcp` | bool | Ever listed on PulseMCP. | |
| | `first_seen` | date | Earliest date we observed the server on any registry. | |
| | `is_active` | bool | Listed by at least one registry at generation time under the site's liveness rule (delta-synced registries: not reported deleted; crawled registries: seen within 30 days of that registry's newest crawl). Delisted servers are kept with `is_active = false` and no rank; mcptoplist.com counts active servers only. | |
| | `transport_classification` | string | `stdio` / remote transport class, when known. | |
| | `setup_classification` | string | `runs_out_of_the_box`, `needs_credentials`, or `hosted_remote_auth`; null when unknown. | |
| | `repo_stars_current` | int | GitHub stars, snapshot at generation time. | |
| | `mcptoplist_rank` | int | The server's position in the mcptoplist.com ranking (1 = top), exactly as published on the site at generation time; null for servers the site does not rank. The underlying score, its components and weights are not part of the dataset — see <https://mcptoplist.com/methodology>. | |
|
|
| ### `registry_daily.parquet` — 925 rows, one per source × day |
| |
| | Column | Type | Description | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | `source` | string | One of `official_mcp_registry`, `glama_ai`, `smithery`, `mcp_so`, `pulsemcp`. | |
| | `date` | date | Calendar day (UTC); the series ends at the last complete day before generation. | |
| | `listed_servers` | int | Cumulative count of distinct servers whose listing on this source began on or before this day. | |
|
|
| ### `manifest.json` |
|
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| Version label, generation timestamp, row counts, and column lists for the release. |
|
|
| ## Citation |
|
|
| If you use this dataset, please cite mcptoplist.com: |
|
|
| ```bibtex |
| @misc{mcptoplist_dataset, |
| title = {MCP Toplist: MCP Ecosystem Dataset}, |
| author = {{MCP Toplist}}, |
| year = {2026}, |
| publisher = {Hugging Face}, |
| howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/BIFF-AI/mcptoplist}}, |
| note = {Data from \url{https://mcptoplist.com}, CC BY 4.0} |
| } |
| ``` |
|
|
| Or in prose: *“MCP Ecosystem Dataset, mcptoplist.com (CC BY 4.0), |
| https://mcptoplist.com”*. |
|
|
| ## Maintainer |
|
|
| Published by [MCP Toplist](https://mcptoplist.com) (BIFF.ai). Questions and issues: |
| hello@biff.ai, or the dataset's community tab. |
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|
