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- 19,812 servers maintained & ranked
- checked
- most installed: Playwright MCP (25,988,876 installs/mo)
- hot category: Browser Automation
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What are you building?
Every category ranked by adoption and maintenance. Best picks first.
Finance
1,987 tracked · best: Edgar Tools
API Integration
1,329 tracked · best: Telnyx
Security
1,047 tracked · best: Snyk MCP Server
Media
877 tracked · best: Comfyui MCP
Memory
751 tracked · best: Codebase Memory
Documentation
733 tracked · best: Context7
Productivity
626 tracked · best: Basic Memory
Automation
620 tracked · best: Ha MCP
Cloud Infrastructure
580 tracked · best: Azure MCP Server
Communication
542 tracked · best: Agent Swarm
Database
521 tracked · best: Supabase
Browser Automation
506 tracked · best: Playwright MCP
Coding Agent
457 tracked · best: Serena
444 tracked · best: Emailmd
Maps & Location
410 tracked · best: Mapbox MCP Server
Data & Analytics
403 tracked · best: Server Chart
DevOps & Monitoring
357 tracked · best: Dynatrace MCP
Web Scraping
331 tracked · best: Firecrawl MCP Server
AI & ML
301 tracked · best: Local RAG (shinpr)
Science & Health
300 tracked · best: Arxiv MCP Server…
Developer Tools
292 tracked · best: Storybook MCP Addon
Social Media
261 tracked · best: Reddit MCP Buddy
E-commerce
258 tracked · best: Heimdall
Design
219 tracked · best: Figma Context MCP
Filesystem
210 tracked · best: Server Filesystem
Search
206 tracked · best: SearXNG Search
Web Framework
159 tracked · best: Semiotic
Gaming
146 tracked · best: Godot MCP (sat…
or cut by TypeScript servers · Python servers · JavaScript servers · Go servers · Rust servers · remote · open source · Postgres · Docker · Jira
Top-ranked servers: installs × maintenance
all 4564 →Playwright MCP
Playwright Tools for MCP
25,988,876 dl/mo · ★ 36,373 · commit 2026-08-21
Chrome DevTools MCP
MCP server for Chrome DevTools
7,879,708 dl/mo · ★ 49,617 · commit 2026-08-23
Context7
Up-to-date code docs for any prompt
4,108,483 dl/mo · ★ 61,095 · commit 2026-08-21
Firebase MCP
Gives AI development tools Firebase-specific capabilities and expertise.
10,734,044 dl/mo · ★ 4,457 · commit 2026-08-21
Storybook MCP Addon
Help agents automatically write and test stories for your UI components.
7,699,261 dl/mo · ★ 266 · commit 2026-08-21
Firecrawl MCP Server
MCP server for Firecrawl - web search, scraping, and biomedical/arXiv paper search.
512,194 dl/mo · ★ 7,295 · commit 2026-08-21
Edgar Tools
Open-source SEC EDGAR toolkit - 11 tools, 7 prompts, every filing type. No API key required.
967,091 dl/mo · ★ 2,603 · commit 2026-08-23
Azure MCP Server
All Azure MCP tools to create a seamless connection between AI agents and Azure services.
500,118 dl/mo · ★ 3,598 · commit 2026-08-21
Agent Device (callstackincubator)
Let AI agents inspect, control, and debug real iOS, Android, desktop, and TV apps
586,584 dl/mo · ★ 4,191 · commit 2026-08-22
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Explore the ecosystem
The whole MCP landscape from our nightly data: what's built, what's used, and what's shipping.
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What people build with MCP
Growth, adoption leaders, and the most-used categories → the full report
most-used category
Browser Automation
34,389,107 installs/mo · led by Playwright MCP → the ranked list
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2414 arrivals · 1213 releases
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Quick answers
What is an MCP server?
An MCP server is a small program that gives an AI assistant a specific capability, like querying a database, controlling a browser, or reading your files. Your AI client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, and others) connects to it over the Model Context Protocol. Our plain-English guide covers the rest. What is MCP? →
Which MCP server should I use?
Start from what you're building: every category page ranks its servers by monthly installs, GitHub stars, and commit recency, so the maintained ones with real adoption surface first. If you already have a config file, the stack analyzer reads it and suggests what fits. Analyze your config →
How do I install an MCP server?
Each server's page shows copy-paste install configs for popular clients, the exact command to run, and which credentials it needs before first use. Remote servers skip the install entirely: you add a URL to your client and connect.
How does MCPhq verify 19,812 servers?
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