What is the best search MCP server?

By tashan's measured score, the highest-ranked are Deep Search, Scribefy, X402 Codesearch, Clawfetch, Trustlists. 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	Deep Search npm	47	38/wk	active
2	Scribefy npm solid	46	389/wk	active
3	X402 Codesearch npm thin	46	142/wk	active
4	Clawfetch npm	46	52/wk	active
5	Trustlists npm	46	31/wk	active
6	Compass · liuyoshio npm solid	45	120/wk	stable
7	Horos plugin	45	1 marketplaces	active
8	Janus plugin	45	1 marketplaces	active
9	Sapheneia plugin	45	1 marketplaces	active
10	Probitas plugin	45	1 marketplaces	active
11	Lemma plugin	45	1 marketplaces	active
12	Pandects plugin	45	1 marketplaces	active
13	Tabularium plugin	45	1 marketplaces	active
14	Alexandria plugin	45	1 marketplaces	active
15	Brevitas plugin	45	1 marketplaces	active
16	Berean plugin	45	1 marketplaces	active
17	Cuda To Xpu Migration plugin	45	1 marketplaces	active
18	Uav Pack plugin	45	1 marketplaces	active
19	IOT Pack plugin	45	1 marketplaces	active
20	Graphify Pack plugin	45	1 marketplaces	active
21	YouTube Transcript npm solid	45	487/wk	active
22	Solapi npm	45	250/wk	active
23	Freescout npm deep	45	239/wk	active
24	Chinese Text Tools npm	45	106/wk	active
25	Ocular Audio npm solid	45	77/wk	active
26	Psychosynth npm solid	45	75/wk	active
27	Opensearch npm thin	45	37/wk	active
28	Quasi plugin	44	2 ★	active
29	Xhs npm	44	331/wk	active
30	Citation Intelligence npm deep	44	117/wk	active
31	Web Fetcher npm deep	44	68/wk	active
32	Pulse Subregistry npm	44	42/wk	active
33	Publedge npm thin	44	34/wk	active
34	Structura npm	44	22/wk	active
35	Windmill Hr plugin	43	1 ★	active
36	Meta · redhat-developer plugin	43	1 marketplaces	active
37	Plugins plugin	43	1 marketplaces	active
38	Research · khaneliman plugin	43	1 marketplaces	active
39	Hypergate plugin	43	1 ★	active
40	Web Search · zhafron npm solid	43	348/wk	active
41	Fetch URL npm	43	311/wk	active
42	Nigeria Health Facility npm	43	69/wk	active
43	Screenshotscout npm solid	43	63/wk	active
44	Gaff Check npm	43	21/wk	active
45	Bright Data plugin	42	1 marketplaces	—
46	Deepmiro plugin solid	42	7 ★	active
47	Research Co Pilot plugin solid	42	5 ★	active
48	Striderlabs Instacart plugin	42	4 ★	active
49	Tavily · intellectronica plugin	42	1 marketplaces	—
50	Sc Extras plugin	42	1 marketplaces	—
51	Kleros Skills plugin	42	1 ★	active
52	Research Summarizer plugin	42	1 marketplaces	—
53	Pulse · AlexBramall plugin	42	1 marketplaces	—
54	Litreview plugin	42	1 marketplaces	—
55	Grants plugin	42	1 marketplaces	—
56	Dossier · AlexBramall plugin	42	1 marketplaces	—
57	Patent plugin	42	1 marketplaces	—
58	Syllabus plugin	42	1 marketplaces	—
59	Notebooklm · AlexBramall plugin	42	1 marketplaces	—
60	Research Orchestrator plugin	42	1 marketplaces	—
61	AI Daily Digest plugin	42	1 marketplaces	—
62	Notebooklm Connector plugin	42	1 marketplaces	—
63	Nutrient Dws plugin	42	1 marketplaces	—
64	Paper Toolkit plugin	42	2 ★	active
65	Kimi Code Plugin Cc plugin	42	1 marketplaces	active
66	Mneme Kimi Code plugin	42	1 marketplaces	active
67	Costory plugin	42	1 ★	active
68	Corvio Workspace plugin	42	0 ★	active
69	Zendesk · markusvankempen npm	42	179/wk	active
70	Gilbert npm solid	42	94/wk	active
71	Vet npm	42	87/wk	active
72	Asktian npm	42	80/wk	active
73	Superhighway npm thin	42	59/wk	active
74	Markfetch npm	42	55/wk	active
75	Rippr npm thin	42	44/wk	active
76	Fusion npm	42	34/wk	active
77	Pulse npm	42	10/wk	active
78	Medsci Submission plugin	41	1 marketplaces	active
79	Doublecheck plugin	41	1 marketplaces	active
80	Listops plugin	41	0 ★	active
81	Stick Around plugin	41	1 ★	active
82	Notebook Tools plugin	41	1 marketplaces	active
83	Lyrenth npm solid	41	111/wk	active
84	Cariot npm	41	29/wk	active
85	Crawlbit npm	41	19/wk	active
86	Np Troubleshooting plugin	40	1 marketplaces	active
87	Chu Brest Eds Skills plugin	40	0 ★	active
88	Collect And Digest plugin	40	0 ★	active
89	Blockrun Media plugin	40	0 ★	active
90	Decodo npm solid	40	145/wk	active
91	Deep Research · Perufitlife npm solid	40	71/wk	active
92	Sonovault npm solid	40	37/wk	active
93	Local RAG · raevon npm	40	30/wk	active
94	Skills · ANeuronI npm	40	22/wk	active
95	Arbiter npm	40	16/wk	active
96	Agent Web Search npm	40	15/wk	active
97	Investigation Report plugin	39	1 marketplaces	active
98	Recap plugin	39	1 marketplaces	active
99	Insight Engine plugin	39	0 ★	active
100	Miqa plugin	39	0 ★	active
101	Claude Hashline plugin	39	0 ★	active
102	Session Viz plugin	39	0 ★	active
103	Safe DB API plugin	39	0 ★	active
104	Soapnoteapi npm solid	39	69/wk	active
105	Search · caikiji npm	39	47/wk	active
106	SnowSure — Snow & Ski npm	39	44/wk	active
107	Serpex npm	39	33/wk	active
108	Acp Find plugin	38	1 ★	active
109	Idstack plugin	38	22 ★	active
110	Openwebninja Universal Scraper plugin	38	4 ★	active
111	Ato · gunba plugin	38	0 ★	active
112	Pathfinder plugin	38	0 ★	active
113	Discovery Sentinel plugin	38	1 marketplaces	active
114	Feedback Archivist plugin	38	1 marketplaces	active
115	Tsundoku plugin	38	1 marketplaces	active
116	Research Toolkit plugin	38	1 marketplaces	active
117	Cc Latex plugin	38	1 marketplaces	active
118	Boy Scout plugin	38	0 ★	active
119	Trustrails npm solid	38	93/wk	active
120	Developers · gaudiolab npm	38	89/wk	active

Recently changed in Search

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

2026-08-10 Xhs — xhs-mcp now reaches browser, network
2026-08-10 Markfetch — markfetch now reaches network
2026-08-10 Serpex — serpex-mcp now reaches network
2026-08-11 Deep Search — @just-every/mcp-deep-search now reaches credentials

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Head to head

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