What is the best search MCP server?

By tashan's measured score, the highest-ranked are Tavily, Exa, Exa · exa-labs, Perplexity API Platform, Alltuu Downloader. the score combines upkeep and freshness, gated by real adoption — every input is public and re-derivable, and no ranking position can be purchased.

How many search MCP servers are there?

tashan currently measures 114 capabilities in this category out of its full tracked corpus. The count moves as servers are published and as adoption changes.

How is the ranking calculated?

From public signal only: npm download volume and publish cadence, GitHub push/release recency, contributor count, registry status, and how often the server appears in real public agent configs. Nobody can pay to change a score, rank, or listing.

The Index · Search

Search MCP servers, ranked

Web search, retrieval, and answer engines. tashan measures 114 capabilities here and ranks them by tashan score — a transparent composite of upkeep, freshness and real adoption. How we measure ›

#	Capability	tashan	Evidence	Health
1	Tavily server Search	86	33k/wk	active
2	Exa server Search	84	15k/wk	active
3	Exa · exa-labs server solid Search	77	5k ★	active
4	Perplexity API Platform server solid Search	77	17k/wk	active
5	Alltuu Downloader server thin Search	70	700 ★	active
6	Socialneuron server deep Search	70	2k/wk	active
7	Elnora server solid Search	69	458/wk	active
8	Tavily · tavily-ai server solid Search	68	433 ★	active
9	Searxng server solid Search	68	148/wk	active
10	Brave Search Skills server thin Search	67	161 ★	active
11	SERPdive Web Search server deep Search	65	988/wk	active
12	Sciverse server solid Search	61	70 ★	active
13	Zxoar server Search	60	444/wk	active
14	Serpapi Claude Plugin server solid Search	59	13 ★	active
15	Mycelium server solid Search	59	54 ★	active
16	Skim402 server deep Search	57	239/wk	active
17	Pulse Fetch server Search	57	159/wk	active
18	Web Search server wrapper Search	57	112/wk	active
19	Mssql Reader server wrapper Search	56	381/wk	active
20	Nigeria Health Facility server thin Search	56	294/wk	active
21	Go server thin Search	56	124/wk	active
22	Agent Social server solid Search	55	14 ★	active
23	Sign CLI server deep Search	53	93/wk	active
24	Airbnb server Search	52	1k/wk	active
25	Rolli server Search	50	84/wk	active
26	Citation Intelligence server Search	49	91/wk	active
27	Appsignal server Search	49	77/wk	active
28	Pulse Subregistry server Search	49	42/wk	active
29	Prior server Search	48	122/wk	active
30	Captapi server Search	48	56/wk	active
31	Claude Geeknews Spinner server Search	46	2 ★	active
32	Compass server Search	45	138/wk	stable
33	Learn server Search	45	2 ★	active
34	Vet server Search	45	51/wk	active
35	SnowSure — Snow & Ski server Search	45	44/wk	active
36	Openwebninja Universal Scraper server Search	44	4 ★	active
37	Decodo server Search	44	115/wk	active
38	Amazon Scraper API server Search	44	76/wk	active
39	Lean Reader server Search	44	45/wk	active
40	Modelpricewatch server Search	44	40/wk	active
41	Ato server Search	43	0 ★	active
42	Kleros Skills server Search	43	1 ★	active
43	Trustrails server Search	43	117/wk	active
44	Opengrok server Search	43	93/wk	active
45	Bitbooth Fetch server Search	43	73/wk	active
46	Botboard Biz server Search	42	1 marketplaces	—
47	Bright Data server Search	42	1 marketplaces	—
48	Nonprofit Grant Writer Kit server Search	42	1 marketplaces	—
49	LayerOne (DocX + Sign) server Search	42	44/wk	active
50	Grant Writing server Search	41	0 ★	active
51	Apify Google News API server Search	41	0 ★	active
52	Aihot server Search	41	58/wk	active
53	Waldo Fyi server Search	40	0 ★	active
54	Aeonos server Search	40	68/wk	active
55	Tube Search server Search	40	43/wk	active
56	Fetch Extract server Search	40	25/wk	active
57	Author Automations Social server Search	37	1 ★	active
58	Scout · shidoyu server Search	37	2 ★	active
59	Xpoz Social Intelligence server Search	36	10 ★	active
60	Kariops Pulse server Search	36	0 ★	active
61	Paper To Course server Search	35	25 ★	active
62	Wolfram Alpha server Search	35	1 marketplaces	active
63	Lynxprompt server Search	35	55/wk	active
64	Parse Gl server Search	35	24/wk	active
65	Sunwood AI Labs Duckduckgo Web Search server Search	34	7/wk	active
66	Pm Augmente server Search	34	1 ★	active
67	Investment Research server Search	34	0 ★	active
68	Professionals server Search	34	35/wk	active
69	Brave server Search	34	1k ★	active
70	Pinkpixel Dev Web Scout server Search	34	130 ★	active
71	Social Media Search API — Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok (XPOZ) server Search	34	8 ★	active
72	Xhs Publisher server Search	33	1 marketplaces	active
73	Gunsnation server Search	33	48/wk	active
74	Agent Skills Search Server server Search	33	23k ★	active
75	Agentpowers server Search	32	0 ★	active
76	Law.AI — Lawyer Search server Search	32	41/wk	abandoned
77	Giphy server Search	31	2k/wk	abandoned
78	Querit server Search	31	1 ★	active
79	Ruoka server Search	31	3 ★	active
80	V1 server Search	31	57/wk	active
81	Fluidityiq Patent Intelligence server Search	30	1 marketplaces	active
82	Patent Intelligence server Search	30	1 marketplaces	active
83	Nace server Search	30	41/wk	active
84	Kiwiclaw server Search	30	33/wk	active
85	LinkupPlatform Linkup server Search	30	29 ★	active
86	Kansei Link server Search	29	1 ★	active
87	Popper Probe server Search	29	0 ★	active
88	Money Social server Search	29	1 marketplaces	active
89	Rlm Research Analyzer server Search	29	0 ★	active
90	Conduitai server Search	28	0 ★	active
91	Community Pulse server Search	28	1 marketplaces	—
92	My Cool Proxy Extras server Search	28	1 marketplaces	—
93	Zai CLI server Search	28	1 marketplaces	—
94	Driflyte server Search	28	116/wk	abandoned
95	Wolfram server Search	27	37/wk	abandoned
96	Reddit server Search	26	10/wk	abandoned
97	MCPClientMock server Search	26	49/wk	abandoned
98	Web Search · PROJECT-B-26 server Search	25	1 ★	active
99	Upriver server Search	25	0 ★	active
100	Opentriangle server Search	24	0 ★	active
101	Nagomi server Search	23	0 ★	active
102	NewzAI server Search	22	5 ★	active
103	Search server Search	20	7 ★	active
104	Rainbowgore Stealthee Mcp Tools server Search	20	0 ★	active
105	Arjunkmrm Perplexity Search server Search	19	10 ★	abandoned
106	Brave Search server ✓ Anthropic deprecated Search	18	30k/wk	abandoned
·	Ad Creative skill Search	not scored yet	23k ★	active
·	Grants skill Search	not scored yet	23k ★	active
·	Notebooklm skill Search	not scored yet	23k ★	active
·	Patent skill Search	not scored yet	23k ★	active
·	Pulse skill Search	not scored yet	23k ★	active
·	Research · alirezarezvani skill Search	not scored yet	23k ★	active
·	Syllabus skill Search	not scored yet	23k ★	active
·	Google Search Console Automation skill Search	not scored yet	70k ★	active

19 of these have been expertise-graded against their documentation; the rest carry adoption and upkeep signal only. We publish what is measured and say plainly what isn't.

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