Context7

license

MIT(OSI, over the published MCP server, CLI and SDK)

source

partial(the API backend, parsing engine and crawling engine are private and not in the repository)

core-gated

gated(the index the product exists to serve is produced by components that are not published)

The MIT license is real and the repository is genuinely public, which is exactly why this record needs reading past the badge. The README states it directly: 'This repository hosts the MCP server's source code. The supporting components - API backend, parsing engine, and crawling engine - are private and not part of this repository.' What ships publicly is the client half - the MCP server, a CLI and an SDK - while the documentation index that the product exists to serve is built and held privately and reached over a hosted endpoint at mcp.context7.com with an API key. That is source: partial under this ladder, a repo without the runtime, and the formula settles a partial source at 2/source_available before the license tier is consulted. An OSI license over a client does not open an engine that was never published.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/upstash/context7/master/README.md recorded 2026-08-30

  README, numbered note: 'This repository hosts the MCP server's source code. The supporting components - API backend, parsing engine, and crawling engine - are private and not part of this repository.' Setup instructions point at the hosted server URL https://mcp.context7.com/mcp with an API key passed as a bearer token.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/upstash/context7/master/LICENSE recorded 2026-08-30

  LICENSE body is the MIT License text, covering what this repository publishes.

• https://api.github.com/repos/upstash/context7 recorded 2026-08-30

  Repo metadata - license spdx_id MIT, archived false, 61,419 stars - for upstash/context7.

3,992,771 downloads of @upstash/context7-mcp in the trailing 30 days, which bands at 1M-10M, level 4 on the software adoption scale. The figure counts installs of the MCP server package and not calls to the hosted index, for which no count is published.

• https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-month/@upstash/context7-mcp recorded 2026-08-30

  3,992,771 downloads for the window 2026-07-31 to 2026-08-29 for @upstash/context7-mcp.

Banded with jina-reader as a single-purpose retrieval service: one kind of source, fetched and shaped for a model context, without the crawl, extraction-strategy and deployment surface the level-4 products in this category carry. The comparison is dated to when the anchor was last confirmed rather than to this sweep, because a relative band is only as fresh as the record it is relative to.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/upstash/context7/master/README.md recorded 2026-08-30

  README documents version-aware retrieval of library documentation and code examples over MCP or a CLI, with library resolution and a token budget parameter.