MCP by the numbers: ~500M monthly SDK downloads, 180K GitHub stars
bibryam · x · 2026-10-23
Adoption figures for MCP shown at the AGNTCon/MCPCon keynote (August 2026):
- 500M monthly Tier-1 MCP SDK downloads
- 180K stars across MCP repositories, up 1.5x year over year
- 6x growth in Vercel MCP adapter downloads in six months, +37% month over month
- Thousands of MCP servers in the Claude connector directory
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