What is the best search MCP server?

By tashan's measured score, the highest-ranked are Waldo Fyi, Ljg Roundtable, Grant Writing, Dbr Logs, Apify Google News API. 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 & skills, ranked

Web search, retrieval, and answer engines. tashan measures 120 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	Waldo Fyi plugin Search	40	0 ★	active
2	Ljg Roundtable plugin Search	40	258 ★	active
3	Grant Writing plugin Search	40	0 ★	active
4	Dbr Logs plugin Search	40	2 ★	active
5	Apify Google News API plugin Search	40	0 ★	active
6	Aeonos npm Search	40	68/wk	active
7	Aihot npm Search	40	58/wk	active
8	Claude Code Mac Notify plugin Search	39	1 ★	active
9	Extract · averra npm Search	39	94/wk	active
10	Qasper npm Search	39	80/wk	active
11	Gretl npm Search	39	45/wk	active
12	URL Alive Check npm Search	39	26/wk	active
13	Fetch Extract npm Search	39	25/wk	active
14	Notify Sounds plugin Search	38	1 ★	active
15	Smelter Skills plugin Search	38	0 ★	active
16	Sylex Search npm Search	38	73/wk	active
17	Citecite npm Search	38	40/wk	active
18	Author Automations Social plugin Search	37	1 ★	active
19	Moorcheh plugin Search	37	0 ★	active
20	Minigames plugin Search	37	0 ★	active
21	Learn With Coursera plugin Search	36	0 ★	active
22	Can I Help plugin Search	36	4 ★	active
23	Scout · shidoyu plugin Search	36	2 ★	active
24	Xpoz Social Intelligence plugin Search	36	10 ★	active
25	Orchard Discovery plugin Search	36	0 ★	active
26	Kariops Pulse plugin Search	36	0 ★	active
27	Parse Gl npm Search	36	44/wk	active
28	Godalo npm Search	36	21/wk	active
29	Agent Ping plugin Search	35	4 ★	active
30	Scriptorium Cowork plugin Search	35	0 ★	active
31	Wolfram Language Development plugin Search	35	1 marketplaces	active
32	Wolfram Alpha plugin Search	35	1 marketplaces	active
33	Focus Notify plugin Search	35	0 ★	active
34	Duckduckgo npm Search	35	206/wk	active
35	Urlsnap npm Search	35	39/wk	active
36	Agentguard npm Search	35	39/wk	active
37	Prexist npm Search	35	31/wk	active
38	Adlibrary npm Search	35	4/wk	active
39	Sunwood AI Labs Duckduckgo Web Search npm Search	34	7/wk	active
40	Ceramic Search plugin Search	34	0 ★	active
41	Paper To Course plugin Search	34	25 ★	active
42	Strategy Frameworks plugin Search	34	10 ★	active
43	Strategy Pack plugin Search	34	0 ★	active
44	Milky Mock plugin Search	34	1 ★	active
45	Pumperly npm Search	34	46/wk	active
46	Case Study Orchestrator plugin Search	33	0 ★	active
47	Investment Research plugin Search	33	0 ★	active
48	Perplexity Comet npm Search	33	128/wk	abandoned
49	Gunsnation npm Search	33	48/wk	active
50	Lurk npm Search	33	32/wk	active
51	Brave remote Search	33	1k ★	active
52	Pinkpixel Dev Web Scout remote Search	33	130 ★	active
53	Social Media Search API — Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok (XPOZ) remote Search	33	8 ★	active
54	Claude Skills plugin Search	32	7 ★	active
55	Pilotgentic npm Search	32	21/wk	active
56	Agent Skills Search Server remote Search	32	23k ★	active
57	Bells And Whistles plugin Search	31	7 ★	active
58	Querit plugin Search	31	1 ★	active
59	V1 npm Search	31	57/wk	active
60	Kiwiclaw npm Search	31	43/wk	active
61	Giphy npm Search	30	2k/wk	abandoned
62	Ruoka plugin Search	30	3 ★	active
63	Nace npm Search	30	41/wk	active
64	LinkupPlatform Linkup remote Search	30	29 ★	active
65	Counsel Frameworks plugin Search	29	1 ★	active
66	Fluidityiq Patent Intelligence plugin Search	29	1 marketplaces	active
67	Patent Intelligence plugin Search	29	1 marketplaces	active
68	Popper Probe plugin Search	29	0 ★	active
69	Money plugin Search	29	1 marketplaces	active
70	Yandex Search API plugin Search	29	1 marketplaces	abandoned
71	Sourcecraft Publisher plugin Search	29	1 marketplaces	abandoned
72	Reddit Skill plugin Search	29	1 marketplaces	abandoned
73	Kansei Link plugin Search	28	1 ★	active
74	Memoriant Patent Skills plugin Search	28	2 ★	active
75	Community Pulse plugin Search	28	1 marketplaces	—
76	My Cool Proxy Extras plugin Search	28	1 marketplaces	—
77	Zai CLI plugin Search	28	1 marketplaces	—
78	Rlm Research Analyzer plugin Search	28	0 ★	active
79	Driflyte npm Search	28	116/wk	abandoned
80	Wolfram pkg Search	27	37/wk	abandoned
81	Conduitai plugin Search	27	0 ★	active
82	Real Estate Framework plugin Search	27	0 ★	active
83	Social plugin Search	27	1 marketplaces	active
84	Reddit pkg Search	26	10/wk	abandoned
85	Subotiz Plugin plugin Search	26	0 ★	active
86	Source Map Parser npm Search	26	103/wk	abandoned
87	MCPClientMock npm Search	26	51/wk	abandoned
88	Background Timer plugin Search	25	0 ★	active
89	Upriver remote Search	25	0 ★	active
90	Claude Train Prep plugin Search	24	1 marketplaces	active
91	Train Prep plugin Search	24	1 marketplaces	active
92	Web Search · PROJECT-B-26 remote Search	24	1 ★	active
93	Nagomi plugin Search	23	0 ★	active
94	Opentriangle plugin Search	23	0 ★	active
95	Web Search · guhcostan npm Search	23	278/wk	abandoned
96	Time · theo.foobar npm Search	22	152/wk	abandoned
97	NewzAI remote Search	22	—	active
98	Clean Architecture · nathankim0 plugin Search	21	1 marketplaces	abandoned
99	Kent Beck Style plugin Search	21	1 marketplaces	abandoned
100	Perplexity npm Search	21	291/wk	abandoned
101	Web Fetch npm Search	20	43/wk	abandoned
102	Search remote Search	20	7 ★	active
103	Arjunkmrm Perplexity Search remote Search	19	10 ★	abandoned
104	Rainbowgore Stealthee Mcp Tools remote Search	19	0 ★	active
105	Meta Plugin plugin Search	16	0 ★	abandoned
106	Cc Terminal Notifier plugin Search	14	1 marketplaces	—
107	Daily News plugin Search	14	1 marketplaces	—
108	Cohort Builder plugin Search	14	1 marketplaces	—
109	Reticulum Protocol plugin Search	14	1 marketplaces	—
110	R Lsp · halidaee plugin Search	14	1 marketplaces	—
111	Fabric Notebook Toolkit plugin Search	14	1 marketplaces	—
112	Study plugin Search	14	1 marketplaces	—
113	Humanise plugin Search	14	1 marketplaces	—
114	Rules Loader plugin Search	14	1 marketplaces	—
115	Serverless npm Search	14	69/wk	abandoned
116	Kwp Lab RSS Reader remote Search	14	5 ★	abandoned
117	Serkan Ozal Driflyte remote Search	14	11 ★	abandoned
118	BigVik193 Reddit User remote Search	11	0 ★	abandoned
119	Blbl147 Xhs remote Search	11	0 ★	abandoned
·	Ad Creative skill Search	not scored yet	1 repos	active

0 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.

Head to head

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

Exa vs Tavily Modelcontextprotocol · @modelcontextprotocol vs Tavily SearXNG Search vs Tavily Perplexity API Platform vs Tavily Argus Decision vs Tavily Sem vs Tavily Protocol Launcher vs Tavily Exa vs Modelcontextprotocol · @modelcontextprotocol Exa vs SearXNG Search Exa vs Perplexity API Platform Argus Decision vs Exa Sem vs Exa

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