MCP Servers Are the Next Big Thing on Apify — Here's Why

Something shifted on Apify in early 2026. They added a new category to the Store: MCP_TOOLS. If you're building actors and you haven't noticed this yet, you're about to miss the biggest distribution shift since pay-per-event pricing launched. I'm Ryan, the developer behind ApifyForge . We've shipped over 80 MCP intelligence servers on the Apify Store under the username ryanclinton . That's not a typo. Eighty-plus servers, live right now, covering financial crime screening, counterparty due diligence, cybersecurity threat assessment, supply chain risk, regulatory intelligence, and about a dozen other domains. We started building these before Apify even had an official MCP category. And now that the category exists, the timing couldn't be better. Here's what's actually going on, why it matters, and why most Apify developers are going to be late to this. What is an MCP server on Apify? An MCP server is a tool server that speaks the Model Context Protocol, an open standard created by Anthr