Get the candles out: MCP Toplist has crossed 100,000 tracked MCP servers. As of today the counter reads 103,039 servers from 66,017 organizations — and it’s still climbing fast, with more than 16,000 new servers added in the last 30 days alone.
When we last wrote about MCP Toplist, the index stood at 58,000 servers and the point of the tool was simple: turn a chaotic, scattered ecosystem into one ranked, searchable list. That mission hasn’t changed — but at nearly double the size, finding a server is only half the problem. The other half is knowing whether you can actually run it. So along with the milestone, we’ve shipped three features aimed exactly at that: trending views, installation instructions, and a setup-type label on every server.
The Milestone: 103,039 Servers, Five Registries, One List
MCP Toplist aggregates the official MCP registry, Glama, Smithery, mcp.so, and PulseMCP into a single deduplicated index, refreshed twice a day. Every server gets a composite score from 0 to 100 built from GitHub stars, version count, release activity, listing age, and organic reach — so the main toplist reads as a genuine popularity contest rather than an alphabetical dump.
At 100k+ servers, that ranking does serious work. Roughly speaking, for any capability you can name there are now dozens of candidate servers; the score is what separates the battle-tested from the weekend experiments.
New: Trending Views to Catch Rising Servers Early
The main toplist naturally favors the established heavyweights — stars and listing age compound. But with 16,000+ new servers arriving a month, the interesting stuff is often three weeks old. The new trending views fix that:
- Best New MCP Servers — the top 50 servers listed within the last 90 days, ranked by the same composite score as the main list. This is where you catch the next AbletonMCP while it’s still small.
- Most Active MCP Servers — ranked by commit count over the last 30 days. Active development is one of the strongest signals that a server is maintained and worth depending on.
- New MCP Servers — the freshest arrivals across all registries, if you want the raw feed.
Both ranked views update twice daily, in step with the index.
New: A Setup Type on Every Server
The most annoying failure mode in MCP discovery used to be this: you find the perfect server, wire it into your client, and then discover it needs an API key for a paid service you don’t have. MCP Toplist now classifies every server’s setup requirements up front:
- No setup — runs out of the box; no credentials or required configuration declared.
- Credentials required — needs user-supplied configuration before first use, typically an API key, token, or connection string set via environment variables.
- Hosted remote — a cloud-hosted server you connect to over HTTP, including whether it’s auth-gated behind a sign-in.
The label appears in the Connect section of every server page, and it’s also returned in search results when you use MCP Toplist as an MCP server — so your AI assistant can prefer servers you can actually connect to before recommending one.
New: Installation Instructions, Right on the Server Page
Each server page now carries a Connect section that goes beyond classification. When a server publishes a machine-readable install config, MCP Toplist shows you exactly what you need: the package to run and the environment variables to set for local servers, or the remote URL and its auth scheme for hosted ones. When a server doesn’t declare its config, the page says so honestly and points you to the repository README instead of guessing.
And for the client side of the equation, the universal connect guide walks through hooking any MCP server into Claude, Cursor, and every other major MCP client.
The Meta-Trick Still Works
Our favorite way to use all of this is still the recursive one: connect MCP Toplist itself as an MCP server and let your assistant do the hunting. Ask it for “the best Postgres MCP that needs no setup” and it can now search 103,039 servers, filter by setup type, check what’s trending, and pull the install config — in one conversation.
A hundred thousand servers sounds like chaos. With the right index, it’s a catalog.
MCP Toplist is built and maintained by BIFF.ai. It tracks 103,000+ MCP servers across the official MCP registry, Glama, Smithery, mcp.so, and PulseMCP, updated twice daily, and is free to use on the web or as a connected MCP server.