MCP Server Growth Leaderboard Sees Major Shake-Up
Longjumping-Ice5233 · reddit · 2026-07-16
After scraping the MCP Registry and GitHub, the author ranked servers by **7-day star velocity** rather than total stars, revealing a massive discrepancy between the two lists. While the all-time list is dominated by older projects from the spring, the velocity list is mostly populated by brand-new projects. Here are the fastest-growing MCP servers: - **open-connector**: 2,610★, +1,504 in 7 days - **vibe-research**: 862★, +276 in 7 days - **flawless**: 669★, +57 in 7 days (positioned as an AI SRE for Kubernetes) - **personal-model**: 365★, +185 in 7 days (with only 3 days of tracked history) The author notes that what's truly accelerating in the MCP space are **gateways / aggregators**, rather than servers that merely wrap a single API, a category that appears saturated. They finally question whether star velocity is even meaningful for MCP servers, as many installations bypass GitHub entirely.
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