MCP Reaches 97M Monthly Downloads and 78% Enterprise Adoption Rate in April 2026

Summary

Model Context Protocol (MCP) has reached 97 million monthly SDK downloads and 81,000 GitHub stars as of March 2026, with 78% of enterprise AI teams reporting at least one MCP-backed agent in production in April 2026. 67% of CTOs surveyed named MCP their default agent-integration standard within 12 months. The protocol, donated by Anthropic to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) in December 2025, is now supported by every major AI vendor: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and