MCP Dev Summit Mumbai 2026

56,000+ MCP servers are listed across mcp.so, Smithery, Glama, and PulseMCP. But how do you know which ones actually work?

I independently mapped 4 major MCP directories and tested 65+ servers across Research, Code, and Finance categories. The results expose a critical trust gap.

Each directory measures something different — none measure what matters most:
- mcp.so (19.5K servers): Zero quality signals
- Smithery (4.4K): Tracks uptime, not output quality
- Glama (21K): Grades code quality, not correctness
- PulseMCP (11K): Tracks popularity only

Key findings I'll share:

1. Quality collapse at scale — Developer Tools has 8,800 servers but only ~12 are consistently good (0.1% quality rate)

2. The Finance/Payments desert — 74 Finance servers out of 19,557 (0.4%). Fewer than 8 support agent-to-agent payments across 14 protocols I analyzed

3. A practical framework for MCP server trust — beyond code grades to actual output quality assessment

This is independent research, not a product pitch. Full dataset and methodology shared openly.

Attendees leave with the first cross-directory quality analysis of the MCP ecosystem and a framework for evaluating servers.