obsei alternatives
10 web search MCP servers from other publishers do the same job as obsei. The closest match comes first, then the best rated, with at most two per publisher.
Cloud or self-hosted knowledge for AI agents: hybrid search, reranking, GraphRAG, scoped MCP tools.
No reviews yetgateway-ready1181.6k/wkFreeWeb search via SearXNG and/or You.com, plus clean Markdown crawling via Crawl4AI. Self-hosted.
No reviews yetlocal · pypi167213/wkFreeFast discovery search and self-hosted web research for MCP agents.
No reviews yetlocal · mixed23384/wkFreePhoto management for self-hosted Immich: search, albums, duplicates, faces, PDF reports. 94 tools.
No reviews yetlocal · mixed54203/wkFreeSearch PubMed/Europe PMC, fetch articles and full text (PMC/EPMC/Unpaywall), citations, MeSH terms.
No reviews yetgateway-ready1538.3k/wkFreeZotero MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT: search, citations, safe writes, PDF passages and pages.
No reviews yetgateway-ready581.9k/wkFreeSearch arXiv papers, download full text, semantic search, citation graphs, and alerts via MCP.
No reviews yetlocal · pypi3.2kFreeTrack brand citations across seven AI search surfaces. Free OSS; optional EUR 99 client-ready audit.
No reviews yetlocal · npm46807/wkFreeMCP server for the Semantic Scholar API: search 200M+ papers, citations, authors, recommendations.
No reviews yetlocal · pypi232.3k/wkFreeGoogle Scholar search results, citation counts and citation export formats, as structured JSON.
No reviews yetgateway-ready10162/wkFree
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Open source obsei alternatives (10)
Published under an open licence such as MIT or Apache-2.0.
DocsMint, searxNcrawl, Tinysearch, Immich Photo Manager, Pubmed, Zoteus, Arxiv, GEO Tracker by DigestSEO and 2 more below.
Hosted obsei alternatives (4)
Nothing to install: a remote endpoint you add by URL. Also callable through the mcp.market gateway.
Local obsei alternatives (6)
A package you install and run on your own machine, so your data stays on your computer.
searxNcrawl, Tinysearch, Immich Photo Manager, Arxiv, GEO Tracker by DigestSEO, Semantic Scholar MCP Server.
Safest obsei alternatives (6)
Graded A: passed every check the scanner runs on the latest release.
DocsMint, searxNcrawl, Pubmed, Zoteus, Arxiv, HasData Google Scholar.
obsei and its alternatives compared
| Server | Grade | Rating | Licence | Runs | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| obsei(this one) | A85 | No reviews yet | Apache-2.0 | Local | 1.4k |
| DocsMint | A96 | No reviews yet | Apache-2.0 | Hosted | 118 |
| searxNcrawl | A85 | No reviews yet | MIT | Local | 167 |
| Tinysearch | B82 | No reviews yet | MIT | Local | 233 |
| Immich Photo Manager | B82 | No reviews yet | MIT | Local | 54 |
| Pubmed | A93 | No reviews yet | Apache-2.0 | Hosted | 153 |
| Zoteus | A98 | No reviews yet | MIT | Hosted | 58 |
| Arxiv | A92 | No reviews yet | Apache-2.0 | Local | 3.2k |
| GEO Tracker by DigestSEO | B83 | No reviews yet | MIT | Local | 46 |
| Semantic Scholar MCP Server | B83 | No reviews yet | MIT | Local | 23 |
| HasData Google Scholar | A100 | No reviews yet | MIT | Hosted | 10 |