- c1e314b: ctx7 setup now downloads the find-docs and context7-mcp skills directly from GitHub instead of the deprecated Skill Hub API.
Context7 by Upstash
Gives coding agents up-to-date, version-specific documentation and code examples for libraries, through an MCP server or API, instead of relying on what the model memorised.
Agent tooling for cost, context and memory
New · Added to AgentGid on Oct 8, 2026Documentation MCP serverOpen source · MITFree to start
Price
Free + $10/mo
free tier available
Popularity
Top 10 in Agent tooling
Gid Score 44 / 100 · #73 of 283 overall
Trend
Slowing down
usage down 32.9% over 30 days
Development
Actively updated
latest 0.5.15, yesterday
Community
62.8K GitHub stars
480K package downloads a week
What Context7 does
Key facts
| Maker | Upstash |
|---|---|
| Type | Documentation MCP server |
| License | MIT |
| Interfaces | MCP server, REST API |
| Works with | Works with Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf and other MCP clients |
| Main language | TypeScript |
| Open issues and PRs | 49 |
Pricing
Free for individuals with 1,000 API calls a month. Pro is $10 per seat a month with 2,000 calls per seat, then $5 per 1,000 calls.
Source: official pricing page, checked Oct 9, 2026. Prices change often; confirm before you buy.
Quick answers
- Free to start?Yes
- Open source?Yes (MIT)
- Where you use itMCP server, REST API
- Closest alternativeLiteLLM · all alternatives
Get started with Context7
| npm | npm install -g @upstash/context7-mcp |
|---|
These commands use the packages tracked on this page. The vendor may recommend a different installer; see the official documentation.
Context7 works with
Claude Code Cursor Cursor CLI Cline Kilo Code GitHub Copilot Gemini CLI OpenAI Codex OpenCode Zed Amp Goose
Context7 alternatives
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73 | 23.1M | up 1.8% | — | — | 60.4K+60/day | 1.104.2yesterday | Free (OSS) | ||
| 14 |
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63 | 2.7M | down 3.5% | down 5.6% | — | 190K+368/day | 2.11.03mo ago | Free + $16/mo | ||
| 15 |
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63 | 8.7M | up 11.2% | down 1.9% | — | 35.5K+39/day | 4.55.0yesterday | Free (OSS) | ||
| 21 |
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60 | 3.7M | up 2.6% | up 13.7% | — | 14.2K+24/day | 2.53.13d ago | Free + $150/mo | ||
| 34 |
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55 | 1.7M | up 8.4% | up 33.7% | — | 30.5K+16/day | 0.13.010d ago | Free + $29/mo | ||
| 35 |
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55 | 351K | up 5.9% | down 6.5% | — | 85K+61/day | 0.9.416d ago | Free (OSS) | ||
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Context7 news
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Context7 0.5.15 released
c1e314b: ctx7 setup now downloads the find-docs and context7-mcp skills directly from GitHub instead of the deprecated Skill Hub API.
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25 agents added to AgentGid
LiteLLM, Firecrawl, Langfuse, E2B, Composio, Crawl4AI, Mem0, Repomix, CodeGPT, Context7, Phoenix, Headroom and 13 more
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Context7 4.2.0 released
MCP Bundle for @upstash/context7-mcp@4.2.0 (+6 more releases that day)
What changed: recent Context7 releases
44 stable releases in the last 90 days · Full changelog
- MCP Bundle for @upstash/context7-mcp@4.2.0
- 48eb9f0: Require credentials on the HTTP /mcp endpoint by default. Set MCPAUTHENFORCEMENT=observe to keep anonymous /mcp access and record privacy-safe authentication migration events; /mcp/oauth…
- 126379b: Answer an expired or revoked OAuth access token (oat…) on the hosted HTTP transport with an HTTP 401 and a WWW-Authenticate: Bearer error="invalidtoken" challenge, so MCP clients refresh…
- MCP Bundle for @upstash/context7-mcp@4.1.3
- afdd129: Over HTTP, answer subscriptions/listen with an acknowledgement and an immediate complete result instead of a "Subscription limit reached" error, and stop logging those refusals. Context7…
- 2b7c4f0: Update the undici dependency to 7.30.
- MCP Bundle for @upstash/context7-mcp@4.1.2
Context7 popularity and usage data
Context7 was downloaded 480K times from npm in the week ending Oct 5, 2026, up 5.6% on the week before and down 32.9% over the last 30 days compared with the 30 before. The GitHub repository has 62.8K stars, 1,201 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 0.5.15, published Oct 8, 2026; there were 19 stable releases in the past 30 days. It was mentioned in 2 Hacker News posts and comments over the last 30 days.
Download the raw daily series: context7.csv
Gid Score breakdown
Adoption60
Community75
Attention0
Momentum17
Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.
Context7 FAQ
How much does Context7 cost?
Free for individuals with 1,000 API calls a month. Pro is $10 per seat a month with 2,000 calls per seat, then $5 per 1,000 calls.
Is Context7 open source?
Yes. Context7 is open source, released under the MIT license.
How popular is Context7?
Context7 was downloaded 480K times from npm in the week ending Oct 5, 2026, up 5.6% on the week before and down 32.9% over the last 30 days compared with the 30 before. The GitHub repository has 62.8K stars, 1,201 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 0.5.15, published Oct 8, 2026; there were 19 stable releases in the past 30 days.
What is the latest version of Context7?
The latest stable release we track is 0.5.15, published on Oct 8, 2026.
What are the alternatives to Context7?
The closest alternatives in the same category by Gid Score are LiteLLM, Firecrawl, Langfuse, E2B.
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Where these numbers come from
npm: @upstash/context7-mcp. GitHub: upstash/context7. See data sources for how each one is collected.
Product facts and pricing were checked against: github.com, context7.com.