We pulled every listing in the official Model Context Protocol registry. The result is a land rush with almost no visible business model.
1. The registry is a land rush, not a market. 44% of all listings appeared or were updated in the last 30 days — 6,321 in the last week alone. Supply is compounding far faster than anyone's ability to evaluate it.
2. Pricing is invisible. Only 2,321 listings (5.8%) mention a price, credits, or a subscription anywhere in their title or description; 2,245 mention "free". For a buyer — or an agent — there is almost no way to tell what a server costs from the registry entry itself. That is the gap a pay-per-call server with a stated price fills.
3. A single publisher can look like a trend. The largest single account in the registry (io.github.mcp-dir) has 1,115 listings — 2.8% of the entire registry — and the ten busiest remote hosts account for 10% of all remote endpoints. Raw counts overstate how many independent products exist.
Share of servers whose description mentions each capability (keyword match, one server can match several):
| Capability | Servers | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| web / site search | 4,608 | 11.5% | |
| verification & fact-check | 1,657 | 4.1% | |
| market & financial data | 1,125 | 2.8% | |
| 767 | 1.9% | ||
| crypto / on-chain | 655 | 1.6% | |
| legal & contracts | 601 | 1.5% | |
| monitoring & change detection | 545 | 1.4% | |
| PDF & documents | 518 | 1.3% | |
| scraping & crawling | 480 | 1.2% | |
| structured extraction | 420 | 1.0% | |
| screenshots | 269 | 0.7% | |
| calendar | 243 | 0.6% |
The read: "search" is the default first tool, at 4,608 servers — roughly 19× the size of the least-mentioned categories. Generic web search is the most commoditised slot in the ecosystem. Freshness — monitoring, change detection, verification — is a fraction of that (545 and 1,657 servers) while solving a problem search alone cannot.
200 calls/hour per IP, no signup — every tool except extract. Then $0.01/call in USDC, or a card pass from $1 (100 calls).
curl -s https://oracle.saltcrate.com/search -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'X-Oracle-Free: 1' -d '{"query":"mcp server pricing"}'
Start with 100 calls — $1 →
See a live result
GET https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?version=latest, paginated to exhaustion on 2026-11-09 06:12 UTC. 40,100 records, 40,100 distinct names.