Model Context Protocol · daily snapshot

Which MCP servers people actually use

No usage API exists for MCP, so popularity here is triangulated from three public signals — npm download counts, GitHub stars, and what's trending on GitHub right now. Snapshotted daily; the day-over-day change is the part that matters.

Snapshot 2026-08-09 First snapshot — deltas appear once a second day is collected. Built 2026-08-09 08:11 UTC
1 115 servers indexedofficial MCP registry + curated majors
178 published to npm672 with a public repo
950 remote servershosted endpoints, not local processes
10 843 904 downloads / weeksummed across tracked packages

Reach

Two different questions. Downloads measure how often a server is actually installed and run; stars measure how many people thought it was worth bookmarking. They disagree more than you'd expect.

npm downloads, last 7 days

Only servers published to npm. Python-only and hosted servers are invisible here.

  1. 1 @playwright/mcp mcp 6 700 967
  2. 2 chrome-devtools-mcp chrome-devtools-mcp 1 617 419
  3. 3 @upstash/context7-mcp context7-mcp 974 575
  4. 4 @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem server-filesystem 490 465
  5. 5 @notionhq/notion-mcp-server notion-mcp-server 184 986
  6. 6 firecrawl-mcp firecrawl-mcp 177 910
  7. 7 @modelcontextprotocol/server-sequential-thinking server-sequential-thinking 135 350
  8. 8 @sentry/mcp-server mcp-server 103 923
  9. 9 @modelcontextprotocol/server-memory server-memory 103 710
  10. 10 figma-developer-mcp figma-developer-mcp 93 092
  11. 11 @supabase/mcp-server-supabase mcp-server-supabase 79 210
  12. 12 @perplexity-ai/mcp-server Perplexity API Platform 38 235
  13. 13 @perplexity-ai/mcp-server mcp-server 38 235
  14. 14 exa-mcp-server exa-mcp-server 32 334
  15. 15 @apify/actors-mcp-server actors-mcp-server 18 197

GitHub stars

Cumulative, so it favours servers that have been around a while. Growth is the honest read — see below.

  1. 1 modelcontextprotocol/servers TypeScript 89 356
  2. 2 upstash/context7 TypeScript 60 461
  3. 3 ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp TypeScript 48 775
  4. 4 microsoft/playwright-mcp TypeScript 35 921
  5. 5 github/github-mcp-server Go 32 076
  6. 6 agentskills/agentskills Python 24 041
  7. 7 GLips/Figma-Context-MCP TypeScript 15 618
  8. 8 firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server JavaScript 7 182
  9. 9 modelcontextprotocol/registry Go 7 125
  10. 10 Klavis-AI/klavis Python 5 787
  11. 11 exa-labs/exa-mcp-server TypeScript 4 838
  12. 12 exa-labs/exa-mcp-server TypeScript 4 838
  13. 13 makenotion/notion-mcp-server TypeScript 4 580
  14. 14 cloudflare/mcp-server-cloudflare TypeScript 4 044
  15. 15 browserbase/mcp-server-browserbase TypeScript 3 416

Momentum

Week-over-week movement. First snapshot — deltas appear once a second day is collected.

Fastest download growth

Packages with at least 200 downloads in the baseline week, so a jump from 3 to 30 doesn't top the list.

No data collected yet.

Fastest star growth

Stars gained since the previous snapshot.

No data collected yet.

GitHub trending today

The whole trending page, not just MCP — this is the ambient read on what the ecosystem is paying attention to.

RepositoryStarsTodayLang
1 PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent 9 305 +2 483 TypeScript
2 addyosmani/agent-skills 84 687 +779 JavaScript
3 TapXWorld/ChinaTextbook 78 035 +118 Roff
4 google/skills 16 845 +481 Python
5 mattpocock/skills 210 247 +1 359 Shell
6 goauthentik/authentik 24 024 +467 Python
7 TauricResearch/TradingAgents 96 606 +153 Python
8 google/guava 51 870 +93 Java
9 LadybirdBrowser/ladybird 65 045 +48 C++
10 denoland/celld 2 664 +432 Rust
11 litu54/DevOps-Interview-Guide 742 +68
12 bannedbook/fanqiang 50 008 +101 Kotlin

New MCP repositories

Tagged topic:mcp and created in the last 30 days, ranked by stars. This is where a genuinely new server shows up first — before it reaches the registry or npm.

RepositoryStarsLang
1 icebird1998/drawio-scientific-illustrator Live MCP control of the visible draw.io canvas for step-by-step scientific illustration 1 295 JavaScript
2 0xsline/OpenChatCut Open-source, local-first conversational AI video editor with a professional multi-track 900 TypeScript
3 miuuyy/codex-chatgpt-web Use ChatGPT Web (including Pro) as a native model in the Codex app — with context, tools 776 TypeScript
4 MemTensor/memmy-agent 🍙 A personal AI agent & local memory hub for all AI agents like Claude Code, Codex, Open 619 TypeScript
5 vshulcz/deja-vu Your agents already solved this. deja finds it — it indexes the sessions your coding age 610 Go
6 0xwilliamortiz/openclaude-improved runs anywhere. uses anything 569 TypeScript
7 mikehasa/agentacct See what your coding agents did and what it cost. Breaks each task down into work steps 560 Python
8 MaxFreedomPollard/Compartment Encrypted, fully offline agentic memory. One click install, GUI w/ memory map, all OS an 541 Python
9 TryCaspian/caspian-sdk Agent communication SDK. The open-source agent communication layer for AI agents — email 534 Python
10 Pinvou/pinvou-agent Open-source desktop AI agent for tools, files, knowledge, workflows, and real deliverabl 499 JavaScript
11 icebird1998/scientific-illustrator Editable scientific figures in PowerPoint and draw.io via Codex/MCP with Designer-Drawer 437 JavaScript
12 OlegSotnikov/sallyport A Mac vault that runs authenticated actions for AI agents over MCP. The agent gets the o 243 Swift