Every "how many MCP servers exist" number I could find counts registry entries. The official Model Context Protocol registry keeps every historical version of every server, so the entry count and the server count are different things. I pulled all of it and did the arithmetic. Method Source: the public registry API, every record by cursor pagination, on 14 September 2026. Deduplication: one record per server name, keeping the latest version. Hosts: parsed from the declared remote URLs. Metadata only.
