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.
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.
Give your AI agent eyes to read and search Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, GitHub, Bilibili, XiaoHongShu through one CLI with zero API fees. 19,026 GitHub stars and 7 commits on main in the last 30 days.
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.
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.
Give your AI agent eyes to read and search Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, GitHub, Bilibili, XiaoHongShu through one CLI with zero API fees. 19,026 GitHub stars and 7 commits on main in the last 30 days.
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.
Use any LLM for deep research. Supports SSE API and MCP server. Pluggable LLM backend (Claude, GPT, Gemini, local). 4,581 GitHub stars and 3 commits on main in the last 30 days.
MCP server for searching and analysing arXiv papers. Query the arXiv catalog, retrieve abstracts, and inspect paper metadata. 2,679 GitHub stars and 9 commits on main in the last 30 days.
Official Microsoft Learn MCP Server and CLI tool. Powers LLMs and AI agents with up-to-date Microsoft Learn documentation. 1,614 GitHub stars and 4 commits on main in the last 30 days.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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