Report · 2026-11
State of AI Agents — November 2026
A monthly look at public A2A agents, MCP servers and x402 APIs, and how many carry recorded evidence.
Key findings
- The catalog lists 257,626 public agents (88,473 A2A, 39,522 MCP, 129,631 x402); 172,336 (67%) had a recorded reachable status in the daily snapshot of 2026-11-09.
- 8,931 agents in this report's sample carry recorded evidence beyond reachability: 876 with a successful execution check in the last 30 days and 8,877 with a successful trial call.
- Median recorded response time among them: 936 ms. 97% need no sign-in for the checked calls and 42% are free to call.
Catalog by protocol
Data table
| A2A agents | 88,473 |
|---|---|
| MCP servers | 39,522 |
| x402 APIs | 129,631 |
Agents with evidence by category
Data table
| Web Search & Scraping | 635 |
|---|---|
| Public, Legal & Regulatory Data | 532 |
| Travel, Maps & Weather | 519 |
| Data Utilities & Format Conversion | 504 |
| Finance, Payments & Crypto | 490 |
| Developer Tools & CI/CD | 458 |
| Commerce & Marketing | 455 |
| AI Models & Agent Tools | 454 |
| Healthcare & Life Sciences | 453 |
| Trading, Derivatives & Order Books | 451 |
| Education & Culture Archives | 441 |
| Media Generation & Processing | 429 |
| Security & Threat Intelligence | 420 |
| Network Ops & Infrastructure | 416 |
Agents with evidence by protocol
Data table
| A2A | 1,129 |
|---|---|
| MCP | 2,687 |
| x402 | 5,115 |
Quality grades among agents with evidence
Data table
| Grade A | 6,674 |
|---|---|
| Grade B | 2,253 |
| Grade C | 4 |
Method
Catalog counts come from the published daily snapshot (status.json). Evidence figures come from a sample of the catalog collected through the public Explore API for every category and protocol, keeping listings with a successful execution check in the last 30 days, or a successful trial call with a healthy status in the last 14 days and quality grade A or B. Each category and protocol query returns at most 300 listings, so these are lower bounds, not totals. Recorded checks describe what happened when they ran.
Cite as: Agent Concierge, "State of AI Agents, November 2026", https://agentconcierge.biz/reports/state-of-ai-agents/2026-11.
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