mcp benchmark · authentication
MCP servers by authentication: http_401
774 MCP servers, 34 of them no longer answering. 15 breaking contract changes across 15 of them. That is 4.4 percent gone silent against 4.1 percent across all 20,340 observed servers, and 9.6 tools per server against 13.1 overall.
What authentication means here
What the endpoint demands before it answers.
This group against all servers
Every figure is measured, not estimated. The comparison row below each value is the same measure across all 20,340 servers we observe, so the group can be placed rather than merely described.
| Servers | 774 |
| Gone silent | 34 (4.4 %) |
| Gone silent, all servers | 4.1 % |
| Breaking contract changes | 15 |
| Servers affected | 15 |
| Tools per server | 9.6 |
| Tools per server, all | 13.1 |
| No authentication | 0 (0.0 %) |
| No authentication, all | 62.5 % |
The servers
Ordered by breaking changes, then tool count. Each one opens its full observation history.
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