Statistics on 659 MCP servers, computed from the MCPfolio catalog (release published 2026-11-11). Each study states its method and what it leaves out.
The MCPfolio catalog lists 659 MCP servers in 14 categories. Search is the largest category (342 servers, 51.9%), followed by Development (217, 32.9%).
Among the 242 MCP servers in the MCPfolio catalog with an exact documented tool count, the median server exposes 11 tools and the mean is 33.3. 116 of them (47.9%) expose 10 or fewer.
Across 15,624 tools listed by 630 MCP servers, 63.1% of recognisable tools read data. 323 of 630 servers (51.3%) list at least one tool that creates, updates, deletes, or sends.
The MCPfolio catalog's 659 MCP servers come from 554 named publishers. Google Cloud has the most listings (61, 9.3%), and 535 publishers (96.6%) have exactly one.
Of 659 MCP servers in the MCPfolio catalog, 342 (51.9%) are remote only, 174 (26.4%) are local only, and 130 (19.7%) offer both. 13 do not state how they run.
By GitHub stars, Microsoft MarkItDown MCP is the most popular MCP server in the MCPfolio catalog (190,228 stars across 158 repositories with star data). By MCPfolio page views, Firecrawl MCP leads with 578 of 21,064 recorded views.
They are calculated from the MCPfolio catalog database. Each study page names its source release and method.
Yes. Cite the study page URL and the catalog release date shown on it.