Linkup alternatives
23 web search MCP servers from other publishers do the same job as Linkup. The closest match comes first, then the best rated, with at most two per publisher.
Brave Search MCP Server: web results, images, videos, rich results, AI summaries, and more.
No reviews yetlocal · npm1.6k35k/wkFreeSearch the live web and fetch clean content from source pages.
No reviews yetgateway-ready5.2kFreeMulti-engine web and platform search, news, Google Maps places, page reading, sitemaps, and trends.
No reviews yetgateway-ready173812/wkFreeNo-API-key web search, page fetching and document reading across many engines. Local-first.
No reviews yetlocal · mixed1692.1k/wkFreeRead any web page and search the web: 28 tools, cheapest first, every page checked.
No reviews yetlocal · pypi462.3k/wkFreeSearch, read, annotate, and add to your Zotero research library, local or web.
No reviews yetlocal · pypi5.4k6.5k/wkFreeReal-time web search, reasoning, and research through Perplexity's API
No reviews yetlocal · npm2.5k34k/wkFreeMCP server for advanced web search using Tavily
No reviews yetlocal · npm2.4k26k/wkFreeMCP server for web search operations
No reviews yetlocal · npm39k118/wkFreeReal-time web search, reasoning, and research through Perplexity's API
No reviews yetlocal · npm2.6k23k/wkFreeMCP server for SearXNG — privacy-respecting web search with pagination, URL reading
No reviews yetlocal · npm1.3k13k/wkFreeWeb scraping, search, crawling, structured extraction and research for AI agents.
No reviews yetgateway-ready2.4k137/wkFreeZotero MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT: search, citations, safe writes, PDF passages and pages.
No reviews yetgateway-ready581.9k/wkFreeSearch ClinicalTrials.gov: find studies, retrieve results, match patients to candidate trials.
No reviews yetgateway-ready962.4k/wkFreeConnect AI agents to Exa for web search, content fetching, and multi-step research.
No reviews yetgateway-ready5.2kFreeWeb search via SearXNG and/or You.com, plus clean Markdown crawling via Crawl4AI. Self-hosted.
No reviews yetlocal · pypi167213/wkFreeVisit https://brave.com/search/api/ for a free API key. Search the web, local businesses, images,…
No reviews yetgateway-ready1.5kFreeFast discovery search and self-hosted web research for MCP agents.
No reviews yetlocal · mixed23384/wkFreeProvider-fixed web search plus transparent URL, DOI, and document fetching
No reviews yetlocal · pypi308.9k/wkFreeRoutes tasks to Suede skills, grades live pages A-F for Google and AI search, and checks copy.
No reviews yetlocal · npm12643/wkFreeYellow Pages local business search and full business listings, as structured JSON.
No reviews yetgateway-ready10231/wkFreeGoogle Scholar search results, citation counts and citation export formats, as structured JSON.
No reviews yetgateway-ready10162/wkFreeSearch 6.3M+ live jobs from companies' own career pages, plus resume tailoring & cover letters.
No reviews yetgateway-ready316Free
Linkup alternatives by what you need
Open source Linkup alternatives (22)
Published under an open licence such as MIT or Apache-2.0.
Brave Search, Exa Search, Free Search, FrankenSurf, Zotero MCP, Perplexity API Platform (moved to ai.perplexity/mcp-server), Tavily, Search and 14 more below.
Hosted Linkup alternatives (10)
Nothing to install: a remote endpoint you add by URL. Also callable through the mcp.market gateway.
Exa Search, Search1API, webclaw, Zoteus, Clinicaltrialsgov, Exa, Brave, HasData Yellow Pages and 2 more below.
Local Linkup alternatives (13)
A package you install and run on your own machine, so your data stays on your computer.
Brave Search, Free Search, FrankenSurf, Zotero MCP, Perplexity API Platform (moved to ai.perplexity/mcp-server), Tavily, Search, Perplexity API Platform and 5 more below.
Safest Linkup alternatives (18)
Graded A: passed every check the scanner runs on the latest release.
Brave Search, Exa Search, Search1API, FrankenSurf, Perplexity API Platform (moved to ai.perplexity/mcp-server), Tavily, Search, Perplexity API Platform and 10 more below.
Linkup and its alternatives compared
| Server | Grade | Rating | Licence | Runs | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linkup(this one) | B80 | No reviews yet | NOASSERTION | Local | 31 |
| Brave Search | A85 | No reviews yet | MIT | Local | 1.6k |
| Exa Search | A88 | No reviews yet | MIT | Hosted | 5.2k |
| Search1API | A96 | No reviews yet | NOASSERTION | Hosted | 173 |
| Free Search | B83 | No reviews yet | MIT | Local | 169 |
| FrankenSurf | A92 | No reviews yet | Apache-2.0 | Local | 46 |
| Zotero MCP | B83 | No reviews yet | MIT | Local | 5.4k |
| Perplexity API Platform (moved to ai.perplexity/mcp-server) | A94 | No reviews yet | MIT | Local | 2.5k |
| Tavily | A85 | No reviews yet | MIT | Local | 2.4k |
| Search | A94 | No reviews yet | Apache-2.0 | Local | 39k |
| Perplexity API Platform | A89 | No reviews yet | MIT | Local | 2.6k |
| SearXNG Search | B83 | No reviews yet | MIT | Local | 1.3k |
| webclaw | A92 | No reviews yet | AGPL-3.0 | Hosted | 2.4k |
| Zoteus | A98 | No reviews yet | MIT | Hosted | 58 |
| Clinicaltrialsgov | A93 | No reviews yet | Apache-2.0 | Hosted | 96 |
| Exa | A91 | No reviews yet | MIT | Hosted | 5.2k |
| searxNcrawl | A85 | No reviews yet | MIT | Local | 167 |
| Brave | A97 | No reviews yet | MIT | Hosted | 1.5k |
| Tinysearch | B82 | No reviews yet | MIT | Local | 233 |
| CLIO Web | A94 | No reviews yet | BSD-3-Clause | Local | 30 |
| Suede AI Skills MCP | A92 | No reviews yet | MIT | Local | 126 |
| HasData Yellow Pages | A100 | No reviews yet | MIT | Hosted | 10 |
| HasData Google Scholar | A100 | No reviews yet | MIT | Hosted | 10 |
| Workopia — Job Search | B77 | No reviews yet | MIT | Hosted | 316 |