Release notes
What's new
Changes to the MCP Studio SDK, newest first. Bug fixes and small polish are left out — this is the list worth reading if you have been away for a month.
Changes to MCP Studio itself are tracked separately, on the MCP Studio what's new page.
October 2026
4 updates- New feature
Give every customer a dashboard and analytics in your app
Your end users can now deploy, manage, and delete their MCP servers and see their usage without leaving your product, on every plan. Mint a session token from your backend, call MCPStudio.dashboard and MCPStudio.analytics, and match them to your colors and font.
End-user dashboard guide - New feature
Show your own logo, or none, on SDK Pro
Choose in Customize SDK whether embedded screens show Appa Tools, your own logo and name, or no logo at all. The setting applies to the wizard, the dashboard, and the analytics page at once.
Branding guide - New feature
Build servers from your backend or an AI agent
Create API keys in the Developer Portal and use the MCP Studio REST API and Headless Context MCP for your integration, including on behalf of a named end user. Servers you create this way appear in that customer’s dashboard and count toward your plan.
API and Headless MCP guide - Analytics
See every customer’s usage, or zoom into one
The Business Intelligence page in the Developer Portal shows requests, servers, tools, and sources across your whole embed, with a list of customers you can open one at a time. It is included in every analytics bundle and your trial.
Analytics and observability guide
September 2026
2 updates- Plans & billing
Serve past your plan limits instead of turning customers away
Turn on usage beyond your plan in the Developer Portal and keep serving end users once your monthly allowance is spent, at $0.10 per additional MCP request and $25 a month per additional server. You set a monthly budget that caps what overage can add to your bill, it is available on Free as well as Pro, and your end users never see anything about it.
Billing and subscriptions - Plans & billing
Server limits are counted per end user
Each of your end users gets their own server allowance — one on SDK Free, ten on SDK Pro — with no cap on how many end users your integration has. MCP requests stay pooled across the integration, and SDK Free includes 1,000 of them a month.
SDK plan limits
August 2026
4 updates- New feature
See your usage before your customers reach a limit
The Developer Portal shows how many MCP servers exist across your embed and how many requests your integration has served this month, against your plan. The person who reaches a limit is an end user inside your product, so this is where you see it coming.
SDK plan limits - Analytics
Grant analytics to your end users from one subscription
Subscribe once at the integration level and every end user who deploys a server through your embed receives that tier, without buying anything from MCP Studio themselves. Pick the tier in the configurator, and see the same depth in your own portal dashboard.
Analytics and observability - Analytics
30-day trial with every analytics tier
New developers get Core, Action, and Predictive included for 30 days, with no card required. It is the whole dashboard rather than a sample of it, so you can decide what your customers need before paying for a tier.
What you can pay for - New feature
Interactive playground and sample apps
Try the real embedded wizard against your own credentials before writing any integration code, changing tools, sources, branding, and layout to see the effect immediately. The sample apps show the embed inside a realistic product shell rather than on a blank page.
Sample apps