What is the best search MCP server?

By tashan's measured score, the highest-ranked are Retentioncheck, Agentcite, Stackmap · Ship-With-AI, Research Space, Claude Rudder. 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 101 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 101 capabilities here. Ranked on upkeep, freshness and real adoption, every input public. How we measure ›

#	Capability	tashan	Evidence	Health
1	Retentioncheck npm	38	48/wk	active
2	Agentcite npm thin	38	36/wk	active
3	Stackmap · Ship-With-AI npm	38	20/wk	active
4	Research Space plugin	37	1 marketplaces	active
5	Claude Rudder plugin	37	1 marketplaces	active
6	Social Feedback plugin	37	1 marketplaces	active
7	Echo plugin	37	1 marketplaces	active
8	Apex Recon plugin	37	1 marketplaces	active
9	Apex Review plugin	37	1 marketplaces	active
10	Echo Feedback plugin	37	1 marketplaces	active
11	Echo Interview plugin	37	1 marketplaces	active
12	Echo Jobs plugin	37	1 marketplaces	active
13	Echo Recon plugin	37	1 marketplaces	active
14	Echo Segment plugin	37	1 marketplaces	active
15	Helm Recon plugin	37	1 marketplaces	active
16	Spine Recon plugin	37	1 marketplaces	active
17	Vigil Recon plugin	37	1 marketplaces	active
18	Frame Recon plugin	37	1 marketplaces	active
19	Cite Recon plugin	37	1 marketplaces	active
20	Cast Recon plugin	37	1 marketplaces	active
21	Vect Recon plugin	37	1 marketplaces	active
22	Plot Recon plugin	37	1 marketplaces	active
23	Guide Recon plugin	37	1 marketplaces	active
24	Bugbook plugin	37	3 ★	active
25	Testflight Triage plugin	37	1 marketplaces	active
26	Competitive Research plugin	37	1 ★	active
27	Smart Mcps plugin	37	0 ★	active
28	Rx290 Grant Compass plugin	37	0 ★	active
29	Duckduckgo · ericthered926 npm	37	30k/wk	abandoned
30	Gong npm	37	772/wk	abandoned
31	Stepfun npm solid	37	624/wk	active
32	Dejared npm solid	37	140/wk	active
33	Painprep npm solid	37	43/wk	active
34	Reelrecon npm	37	27/wk	active
35	Pixabay · dawipong npm	37	13/wk	active
36	Deploverse npm	37	11/wk	active
37	Jupyterlab Collab npm	37	9/wk	active
38	Grant Writing plugin	36	0 ★	active
39	Itda Hyve plugin	36	1 marketplaces	active
40	Ntl Script Descriptions plugin	36	1 marketplaces	active
41	Deep Investigation plugin	36	1 marketplaces	active
42	Tool Evaluator plugin	36	1 marketplaces	active
43	Rosetta · Arielbs npm deep	36	70/wk	active
44	Quickfill npm	36	44/wk	active
45	Anakin Claude Plugin plugin	35	0 ★	active
46	Che Latex plugin	35	1 marketplaces	active
47	Bestocr plugin	35	1 marketplaces	active
48	Skills · raeffs plugin	35	0 ★	active
49	Assette plugin	35	0 ★	active
50	Mli Paper Reading Skill plugin	35	1 ★	active
51	Duckduckgo Websearch npm solid	35	154/wk	abandoned
52	Extract npm solid	35	79/wk	active
53	Aeonos npm solid	35	62/wk	active
54	Tube Search npm solid	35	49/wk	active
55	Jakeliume Webpeel npm	35	46/wk	active
56	Fetch Extract npm	35	25/wk	active
57	Memorion npm	35	8/wk	active
58	Deep Research Core plugin	34	1 marketplaces	active
59	Eval Lab plugin	34	1 marketplaces	active
60	Graphify plugin	34	1 marketplaces	active
61	Humors plugin	34	1 ★	active
62	Hameefy Claude Latex Skill plugin	34	10 ★	active
63	Cnki Search plugin	32	15 ★	active
64	Xpoz Social Intelligence plugin	32	10 ★	active
65	Agent Ping plugin solid	32	4 ★	active
66	Scout · shidoyu plugin	32	2 ★	active
67	Paper To Course plugin solid	31	25 ★	active
68	Jeandiable Academic Research Plugin plugin	30	23 ★	active
69	Claude Skills · surajhk plugin solid	28	7 ★	active
70	Ruoka plugin solid	27	3 ★	active
71	Local Library plugin	27	1 ★	active
72	Jucho Kun plugin	26	1 ★	active
73	Prepkit Product plugin	25	2 ★	active
74	Kansei Link plugin	25	1 ★	active
75	Promptup plugin	23	1 ★	abandoned
·	Research skill	not scored yet	9 repos	active
·	Update · maxwellsdm1867 skill	not scored yet	6 repos	active
·	Plan · maxwellsdm1867 skill	not scored yet	5 repos	active
·	Explain · SerhiiKorniienko skill	not scored yet	4 repos	active
·	Search · spotify skill	not scored yet	4 repos	active
·	Search skill	not scored yet	4 repos	active
·	Academic Pipeline · JilinMen skill	not scored yet	3 repos	active
·	Academic Pipeline skill	not scored yet	3 repos	active
·	Analyze · CHU-Brest skill	not scored yet	3 repos	active
·	Ask skill	not scored yet	3 repos	active
·	Brainstorm · vshvedov skill	not scored yet	3 repos	active
·	Find Skills skill	not scored yet	3 repos	active
·	Grilling skill	not scored yet	3 repos	active
·	Literature Review skill	not scored yet	3 repos	active
·	Orchestrate · scdenney skill	not scored yet	3 repos	active
·	Recall · vredchenko skill	not scored yet	3 repos	active
·	Academic Cv Builder skill	not scored yet	2 repos	active
·	Advisor · scdenney skill	not scored yet	2 repos	active
·	Brave Search · modelcontextprotocol npm ✓ Anthropic deprecated	not scored yet	13k/wk	abandoned
·	Buywhere · io.github.BuyWhere remote	not scored yet	—	abandoned
·	Environmental Retrieval Layer remote	not scored yet	—	abandoned
·	Haunt npm deep deprecated	not scored yet	334/wk	abandoned
·	Jobero job search remote	not scored yet	—	abandoned
·	Litra Paper Search npm	not scored yet	86/wk	abandoned
·	reapx fediverse - Mastodon posts and instance timelines remote	not scored yet	—	abandoned
·	Sense2 Promotional Products remote	not scored yet	—	abandoned

Recently changed in Search

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

2026-08-05 Brave Search · modelcontextprotocol — @modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search was marked deprecated on npm
2026-08-10 Stepfun — stepfun-mcp now reaches credentials
2026-08-10 Haunt — haunt was marked deprecated on npm
2026-08-11 Retentioncheck — @retentioncheck/mcp-server now reaches database

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