What is the best search MCP server?

By tashan's measured score, the highest-ranked are Exa, Tavily, Perplexity API Platform, K Dense AI Scientific Agent Skills, Imbad0202 Academic Research Skills. the score combines upkeep and freshness, gated by real adoption — every input is public and linked to its source.

How many search MCP servers are there?

tashan currently measures 120 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 & plugins, ranked

Web search, retrieval, and answer engines. tashan measures 120 capabilities here. Ranked on upkeep, freshness and real adoption, every input public. How we measure ›

#	Capability	tashan	Evidence	Health
1	Exa npm deep	83	20k/wk	active
2	Tavily npm solid	81	17k/wk	active
3	Perplexity API Platform npm solid	81	30k/wk	active
4	K Dense AI Scientific Agent Skills plugin	78	45k ★	active
5	Imbad0202 Academic Research Skills plugin	77	48k ★	active
6	Brave Search npm	77	8k/wk	active
7	Digitalocean npm	77	3k/wk	active
8	Exa · exa-labs plugin solid	76	5k ★	active
9	Last30days plugin solid	76	54k ★	active
10	Academic Research Skills plugin	75	44k ★	active
11	Anarlog plugin	74	9k ★	active
12	SearXNG Search npm solid	74	9k/wk	active
13	You.com Web Access & AI npm	72	500/wk	active
14	Local RAG npm deep	71	3k/wk	active
15	Nirvana npm	71	874/wk	active
16	Windbg Uvx plugin	70	2k ★	active
17	Screenpipe npm solid	70	3k/wk	active
18	Dws npm	70	652/wk	active
19	Instagram npm	70	497/wk	active
20	Cookiy plugin solid	69	1k ★	active
21	12306 npm	69	8k/wk	active
22	Video Extract npm	68	666/wk	active
23	Blockrun npm solid	68	636/wk	active
24	Airbnb npm	68	505/wk	active
25	Airbnb · openbnb npm	67	2k/wk	active
26	Tavily · tavily-ai plugin solid	65	433 ★	active
27	Substack npm	65	939/wk	active
28	Bytekit npm	65	407/wk	active
29	Nimble plugin solid	64	50 ★	active
30	Products npm	64	904/wk	active
31	Smart Web npm	64	598/wk	active
32	Duckduckgo npm	64	245/wk	active
33	Gocertius npm	64	148/wk	active
34	Searxng npm solid	63	161/wk	active
35	Reddit MCP Buddy npm deep	63	2k/wk	active
36	Svipall npm	63	651/wk	active
37	Clipy npm solid	62	506/wk	active
38	Web Docs npm	62	297/wk	active
39	Sciverse plugin solid	61	78 ★	active
40	Lastsearch npm	61	971/wk	active
41	Leadbay npm solid	61	457/wk	active
42	Searxng MCP Bridge npm	61	451/wk	active
43	Search1api npm solid	61	394/wk	active
44	Brave Search Skills plugin thin	60	161 ★	active
45	Gongio npm solid	60	1k/wk	active
46	Quantumproxies npm	60	574/wk	active
47	Notebooklm npm deep	60	367/wk	active
48	Zyte Web Data plugin solid	59	27 ★	active
49	Howtocook npm	59	2k/wk	active
50	Quanticdata npm	59	594/wk	active
51	Crw npm solid	59	436/wk	active
52	Novada npm deep	59	347/wk	active
53	Autosearch plugin solid	58	41 ★	active
54	Freshrss npm	58	562/wk	active
55	Dossier Research npm deep	58	430/wk	active
56	Linkup npm solid	58	348/wk	active
57	Viator npm	58	242/wk	active
58	Useosint plugin	57	35 ★	active
59	Airweave MCP Search npm solid	57	1k/wk	active
60	Pulse Verity npm	57	404/wk	active
61	Crawlforge npm deep	57	285/wk	active
62	Redditapis npm deep	57	228/wk	active
63	Calibreweb npm	56	482/wk	active
64	Ptitchef npm	56	368/wk	active
65	Dero npm solid	56	362/wk	active
66	Sciverse · opendatalab npm solid	56	181/wk	active
67	Dreamworkhq npm	56	84/wk	active
68	Lm Assist plugin	55	16 ★	active
69	Clelp npm thin	55	403/wk	active
70	My Websearch npm	55	303/wk	active
71	Recolx npm	55	247/wk	active
72	Connectwise Psa npm solid	54	368/wk	active
73	Rasterly npm	54	263/wk	active
74	Cosmos npm	54	130/wk	active
75	Phdtaketaketake plugin deep	53	32 ★	active
76	Digital Innovation Agents plugin solid	53	35 ★	active
77	Reddit npm deep	53	460/wk	active
78	Oneshot npm thin	53	405/wk	active
79	Scrape Le npm	53	354/wk	active
80	Metalift npm solid	53	241/wk	active
81	Recipes npm	53	232/wk	active
82	Help Scout npm deep	53	188/wk	active
83	Cockroach Crawler npm	53	188/wk	active
84	Searoute npm	53	175/wk	active
85	Brave npm	53	108/wk	active
86	Rushdb npm	53	47/wk	active
87	Serpapi Claude Plugin plugin solid	52	13 ★	active
88	Perplexity User npm	52	238/wk	active
89	Agent Search npm deep	52	225/wk	active
90	Pulse Fetch npm	52	184/wk	active
91	Notebooklm · PleasePrompto npm deep	51	5k/wk	active
92	Har Forensics npm solid	51	312/wk	active
93	Thumbtack npm	51	255/wk	active
94	Career Compass npm	51	165/wk	active
95	Paris Compass npm	51	82/wk	active
96	Entra News npm	51	70/wk	active
97	Landbenchmark npm thin	50	306/wk	active
98	Cituna npm solid	50	277/wk	active
99	Scrapio npm	50	183/wk	active
100	Agent Orchestrator npm	50	141/wk	active
101	Operations Pulse npm	50	135/wk	active
102	Web Search npm solid	50	82/wk	active
103	Dwin Research Adoption npm	50	80/wk	active
104	Gyoshu plugin solid	49	240 ★	stable
105	Scout plugin solid	49	7 ★	active
106	Minimalist Entrepreneur plugin	49	10k ★	active
107	Kimi Code Memory npm solid	49	218/wk	active
108	Crazyseo npm deep	49	132/wk	active
109	Rom npm	49	108/wk	active
110	Spoken npm	49	83/wk	active
111	Patent Precheck npm solid	49	82/wk	active
112	Shauryagangrade Scout Issue plugin	48	3 ★	active
113	Tokenhub Websearch npm	48	194/wk	active
114	SERPdive Web Search npm deep	48	124/wk	active
115	Google Custom Search npm	48	66/wk	active
116	Claude Code Webui plugin	47	4 ★	active
117	Openalex Research npm solid	47	224/wk	active
118	JobYap Job Search npm solid	47	167/wk	active
119	Graph Aave npm solid	47	154/wk	active
120	Rolli npm solid	47	148/wk	active

Recently changed in Search

135 changes recorded here in the last 45 days, newest and most serious first.

2026-08-05 SearXNG Search — mcp-searxng now reaches network
2026-08-05 Search1api — search1api now reaches credentials
2026-08-10 12306 — 12306-mcp now reaches network
2026-08-10 Searxng MCP Bridge — @nitish-raj/searxng-mcp-bridge now reaches network

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57 of these are graded against their own documentation. The rest carry adoption and upkeep signal only. We publish what is measured and name what is not.

Head to head

The question people actually ask, answered with two measurements taken the same day by the same scorer.

Exa vs Tavily Exa vs Perplexity API Platform Brave Search vs Exa Digitalocean vs Exa Exa vs SearXNG Search Exa vs Local RAG Exa vs Screenpipe Perplexity API Platform vs Tavily Brave Search vs Tavily Digitalocean vs Tavily SearXNG Search vs Tavily Local RAG vs Tavily

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