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SEARCH MCP SERVERS

Search servers let models interact with search systems through the MCP protocol. Each entry carries an editorial score, security notes, and per-client connection configs.

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7
Avg editorial score
4.3 / 5
Official servers
3
Added this quarter
7
Last re-verified
MAY 7, 2026
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01Top of category
VendorSearch

Exa Search MCP

Exa Labs

Neural search across the open web, companies, news, people (LinkedIn), and academic papers, plus a deep-research mode that runs multi-step query plans. 4,371 GitHub stars and 83 commits on main in the last 30 days, top cadence in the search category. Exa is the highest-quality general-purpose AI search MCP available at time of review.

8 Tools4,371 Stars
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02Runner up
Official

Perplexity MCP

Perplexity (ppl-ai)

Official Perplexity Sonar API exposed as an MCP server. Three tools cover search, research, and reasoning. 2,144 stars and 5 commits on main in the last 30 days.

03Third place
Official

Brave Search MCP

Brave

Official Brave Search MCP covering web, local, video, image, news, and AI summary. 965 GitHub stars and 31 commits on main in the last 30 days. Privacy-respecting search index distinct from Google; useful when agents need an independent corpus.

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ALL SEARCH SERVERS

Vendor4.6/5

Exa Search MCP

Exa Labs

Neural search across the open web, companies, news, people (LinkedIn), and academic papers, plus a deep-research mode that runs multi-step query plans. 4,371 GitHub stars and 83 commits on main in the last 30 days.

8 tools · 4,371 ★Details →
Official4.5/5

Perplexity MCP

Perplexity (ppl-ai)

The official MCP server for the Perplexity API. Sonar search and reasoning models exposed to AI agents through MCP. 2,144 GitHub stars and 5 commits on main in the last 30 days.

3 tools · 2,144 ★Details →
Official4.4/5

Brave Search MCP

Brave

Official Brave Search MCP covering web, local, video, image, news, and AI summary. 965 GitHub stars and 31 commits on main in the last 30 days. Privacy-respecting search index distinct from Google.

6 tools · 965 ★Details →
Official4.4/5

SerpApi MCP

SerpApi

SerpApi's official MCP server. Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, YouTube, and other search engine results exposed to AI agents. 134 GitHub stars and 3 commits on main in the last 30 days.

5 tools · 134 ★Details →
Vendor4.3/5

Tavily MCP

Tavily

Tavily Search and Extract APIs as MCP tools, with both local stdio and hosted streamable transports at https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp. 1,891 GitHub stars and 14 commits on main in the last 30 days.

4 tools · 1,891 ★Details →
Community4/5

DuckDuckGo Search MCP

nickclyde

Community-built DuckDuckGo Search MCP server with web search, content fetching, and intelligent text extraction. Built-in rate limiting protects against DuckDuckGo blocking. SafeSearch and region configuration via env vars.

2 tools · 1,043 ★Details →
Community3.8/5

Wikipedia MCP

Rudra-ravi

Wikipedia retrieval MCP server: fetch articles, search, and pull structured Wikipedia content into agent context. 239 stars and 4 commits on main in the last 30 days.

6 tools · 239 ★Details →
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