At a glance
Claude Code by the numbers
MCP servers by category
Share of all 46,224 servers.
- Finance, Fintech & Payments4,565 (9.9%)
- Search & Web Scraping4,495 (9.7%)
- AI Agents & Coding Agents3,656 (7.9%)
- Developer Tools1,725 (3.7%)
- Communication1,615 (3.5%)
- Knowledge, Memory & RAG1,533 (3.3%)
- Security & Identity1,505 (3.3%)
- Multimedia, Audio & Video1,428 (3.1%)
- Productivity & Project Management1,384 (3.0%)
- Marketing987 (2.1%)
- Location & Travel897 (1.9%)
- Monitoring & Observability864 (1.9%)
MCP servers by language
Implementation language, where known.
- TypeScript2,582 (5.6%)
- Python1,503 (3.3%)
- Go213 (0.5%)
- Rust153 (0.3%)
- C#38 (0.1%)
- Java33 (0.1%)
- C/C++10 (0.0%)
- Ruby2 (0.0%)
How MCP servers run and what they cost
- Local (stdio)16,369 (35%)
- Remote (HTTP/SSE)25,775 (56%)
- Local and remote4,080 (8.8%)
- Free16,918 (37%)
- Freemium26,034 (56%)
- Paid service3,272 (7.1%)
- No auth1,021 (2.2%)
- API key26 (0.1%)
- OAuth582 (1.3%)
MCP server licences
20,924 servers with a detected licence.
- MIT17,551 (84%)
- Apache-2.02,472 (12%)
- AGPL-3.0458 (2.2%)
- GPL-3.0168 (0.8%)
- ISC54 (0.3%)
- CC-BY-4.037 (0.2%)
80% of MCP servers with a GitHub repo were updated in the last 90 days, as were 63% of skills and 79% of mods.
Skills by category
Share of all 5,095 skills.
- AI, LLMs & Agents704 (14%)
- Software Development401 (7.9%)
- Images, Video & Audio398 (7.8%)
- Frontend & Design318 (6.2%)
- Writing & Content271 (5.3%)
- Productivity & Notes258 (5.1%)
- Marketing, Sales & Business239 (4.7%)
- Documents & Office Files209 (4.1%)
- Testing & QA207 (4.1%)
- Research & Science163 (3.2%)
Mods and tools by category
Share of all 13,606 entries.
- Pane & dashboard mods1,776 (13%)
- Context & usage mods1,367 (10%)
- Workflow mods690 (5.1%)
- Git & GitHub mods634 (4.7%)
- Guard & safety mods576 (4.2%)
- Multi-agent & worktrees423 (3.1%)
- Memory & instructions mods290 (2.1%)
- Spinner, theme & fun mods268 (2.0%)
- Plugins & marketplaces264 (1.9%)
- Usage & cost trackers256 (1.9%)
Most popular projects
MCP servers
- 1.Markitdown★ 193,512
- 2.Browser Use★ 119,826
- 3.Scrapling★ 92,344
- 4.Storybook★ 91,427
- 5.World Monitor★ 90,004
- 6.Netdata★ 81,254
- 7.Front-End Checklist★ 74,632
- 8.Context7★ 64,078
- 9.Hindsight★ 57,959
- 10.Codebase Memory★ 47,993
Skills
- 1.Academy Guide★ 185,668
- 2.Brainstorming★ 309,696
- 3.Karpathy Guidelines★ 227,140
- 4.Rea Analysis Optimization★ 413,790
- 5.Firecrawl Build★ 197,254
- 6.Ask Matt★ 307,829
- 7.Design Review★ 138,407
- 8.Archify★ 91,970
- 9.Youtube Downloader★ 78,392
- 10.Accessibility★ 293,665
Mods and tools
- 1.gstack★ 138,813
- 2.Superpowers★ 311,762
- 3.CC Switch★ 151,506
- 4.Everything Claude Code★ 296,395
- 5.Ruflo★ 80,776
- 6.claude-mem★ 111,683
- 7.Karpathy CLAUDE.md★ 228,997
- 8.Spec Kit★ 146,537
- 9.SuperClaude Framework★ 23,925
- 10.Claude Code Templates★ 33,101
Cite this page
Claude Code Agents, "Claude Code Ecosystem Statistics", 2 November 2026, https://www.claudecodeagents.com/reference/claude-code-ecosystem-stats
Numbers are counts of public projects at the date above, not installs or users. A repo can hold many skills or mods, and the same skill is often copied into several repos; duplicates are merged where they can be detected.
Frequently asked questions
How many MCP servers are there?
As of 2 November 2026, this site tracks 46,224 MCP servers from the official MCP Registry, GitHub and curated lists. 674 are official servers from the company behind the service, and 29,855 can be used remotely over HTTP or SSE.
How many Claude agent skills are there?
5,095 skills from 4,020 GitHub repositories, including 186 official skills from Anthropic and partners.
How many Claude Code mods and plugins are there?
7,353 Claude Code mods (plugins with code that runs inside Claude Code) plus 6,253 other customisations such as status lines, hooks, plugins, themes and GUIs.
How many slash commands, flags and environment variables does Claude Code have?
121 built-in slash commands and bundled skills, 85 CLI flags, 398 environment variables and 33 hook events, counted from the official documentation.
Can I use these statistics in an article?
Yes. Please credit Claude Code Agents with a link to this page. The numbers refresh automatically from the directories, so the page always shows the latest count and the date it was taken.
How are the numbers collected?
MCP servers come from the official MCP Registry, the modelcontextprotocol/servers repo and the main awesome-mcp-servers lists, with GitHub stars and npm downloads for ranking. Skills come from every SKILL.md in curated awesome lists and GitHub search, with copies merged. Mods come from the awesome-claude-code-mods catalogue, hand-picked research, other awesome lists and GitHub search. The directories refresh on a schedule, daily or weekly.
Sources: MCP directory, Skills directory, Mods directory, Claude Code docs. Claude Code Agents is an independent site, not affiliated with Anthropic.