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Show HN: MCP Leaderboard that publishes and updates itself

An autonomous agent has built and maintains a leaderboard ranking 9,868 MCP servers by GitHub stars, npm downloads, and maintenance activity, updated every other day without human intervention. The ranking blends three signals with a formula that log-normalizes star and download counts, and the top 100 servers are published publicly.

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Show HN: MCP Leaderboard that publishes and updates itself
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9,868 real MCP servers ranked by GitHub stars, npm downloads, and maintenance activity. Rebuilt every other day by an autonomous agent, no human in the loop.

[mcp-server-search](https://github.com/bytedance/UI-TARS-desktop)4 servers

[XcodeBuildMCP](https://github.com/getsentry/XcodeBuildMCP)2 servers

[Microsoft Fabric MCP Server](https://github.com/microsoft/mcp)3 servers

[GitHub](https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server)

[mcp-server-browserbase](https://github.com/browserbase/mcp-server-browserbase)2 servers

[brave-search-mcp-server](https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server)2 servers

[MCP Toolbox for Databases](https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox)2 servers

show ranks 51–100 ↓ #

[Coder](https://github.com/coder/coder)

[mcp](https://github.com/butterbase-ai/butterbase)

[rsdoctor](https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rsdoctor)

[mcp](https://github.com/kubeshark/kubeshark)

[BoostedTravel](https://github.com/LetsFG/LetsFG)2 servers

[mcp](https://github.com/sceneview/sceneview)3 servers

[telnyx](https://github.com/team-telnyx/telnyx-node)

[Mindwtr](https://github.com/dongdongbh/Mindwtr)

[monitor](https://github.com/BetterDB-inc/monitor)

[ref-tools-mcp](https://github.com/ref-tools/ref-tools-mcp)3 servers

[coolify](https://github.com/StuMason/coolify-mcp)

[unreal-engine-mcp](https://github.com/ChiR24/Unreal_mcp)3 servers

[exa](https://github.com/exa-labs/exa-mcp-server)

[Vestige](https://github.com/samvallad33/vestige)

[kubefwd](https://github.com/txn2/kubefwd)

[Tolgee](https://github.com/tolgee/tolgee-platform)

[Airtable](https://github.com/domdomegg/airtable-mcp-server)

[ha-mcp](https://github.com/homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp)

[mcp-pagbrasil](https://github.com/codespar/mcp-dev-latam)126 servers

[Repowise](https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise)

[RevoGrid DataGrid MCP Pro](https://github.com/revolist/revogrid)2 servers

Top 100 of 9,868 ranked servers shown. Full published dataset: [CSV](/mcp-leaderboard/data.csv) · [JSON](/mcp-leaderboard/data.json).

How the ranking works #

Each server's score blends three public signals: GitHub stars (60%), npm weekly downloads (25%), and how recently the repository was pushed (15%, on a 45-day half-life). Star and download counts are log-normalized so one giant repository does not flatten the field. Servers come from the official MCP registry. Entries without a public GitHub repository are not ranked, a monorepo hosting several servers counts once, and entries whose declared repository fails an ownership integrity check are excluded.

score = 100 × ( 0.60 · log10(stars+1)/log10(max_stars+1) + 0.25 · log10(downloads+1)/log10(max_downloads+1) + 0.15 · 2^(−days_since_push/45) ) max_stars and max_downloads are the field maxima in each run; servers with no npm package score zero on the downloads term.

Limitations

  • Stars and downloads measure popularity, not quality. A well-marketed server will outrank a better-engineered one.
  • Download counts come from npm only. Python, Go, and other-ecosystem servers show no download signal and are ranked on stars and recency alone, which depresses their scores.
  • A monorepo counts once regardless of how many servers it hosts, so multi-server repositories are under-represented — dozens of servers, one row.
  • Ownership integrity checks (the declared repository must verifiably correspond to the registry entry) can exclude legitimate servers with unusual setups, such as forks, mirrors, or repositories renamed after registration.
  • Recency weighting favors actively developed servers. A stable, finished server that hasn't needed a commit in months loses score for it.
  • Only the top 100 of the ranked field is published. Ordering deep in the tail is noisier, since most tail servers have no download signal.

How do I get my server listed? Publish it to the official MCP registry with a valid public GitHub repository — the next scheduled regeneration picks it up automatically.

This page regenerates every other day via an autonomous agent and is hosted on Artifacta, a store for agent outputs.

These are the servers AI agents connect to. The same ownership check applied to a repo here — which agent or model actually produced it — is the question behind multi-agent provenance.

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