PyRank
modelcontextprotocol

mcp

The official Python SDK for Model Context Protocol servers and clients
PyPI GitHub

Shared Repository

This package shares its GitHub repository (modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk) with 3 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
10.4M
Week
71.2M
Month
274.6M
Stars
23.1K
Forks
3.4K
Issues
247
Version
1.27.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
91
Adoption
90
Community
80
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4 days ago
Monthly downloads
274,611,260
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
274,611,260
Stars
23,056
Stars per 1k downloads
0.08
• Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
10,169,066
Month daily avg
9,153,709
Momentum
+11.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
14 days ago
Total releases
56
Releases/year
4.1
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
200
Monthly downloads
274,611,260
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
69
 
Issue Burden
10.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
5.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 8.8M
Windows 110.6K
macOS 100.0K

Python Versions

3.12
34.5% 3.1M
3.11
33.0% 3.0M
3.13
17.0% 1.5M
3.10
8.4% 753.3K
3.14
7.1% 635.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
7.7M
2. GB GB
292.5K
3. SG SG
174.4K
4. IN IN
132.9K
5. DE DE
99.5K
6. NL NL
73.6K
7. CN CN
61.7K
8. JP JP
54.2K
9. FI FI
42.1K
10. IE IE
39.1K

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
August 14, 2012
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
1.27.1
Total Releases
56
Contributors
200
Open PRs
207
Archived
No
Author
Anthropic, PBC.
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py3
Keywords
automation git llm mcp
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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