MCP Retrieval alternatives

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Brave Search

by brave

A

Brave Search MCP Server: web results, images, videos, rich results, AI summaries, and more.

2

webclaw

by 0xMassi

A

Web scraping, search, crawling, structured extraction and research for AI agents.

3

searxNcrawl

by DasDigitaleMomentum

A

Web search via SearXNG and/or You.com, plus clean Markdown crawling via Crawl4AI. Self-hosted.

4

Brave

by smithery.ai

A

Visit https://brave.com/search/api/ for a free API key. Search the web, local businesses, images,…

5

Zotero MCP

by 54yyyu

B

Search, read, annotate, and add to your Zotero research library, local or web.

6

Perplexity API Platform (moved to ai.perplexity/mcp-server)

by perplexityai

A

Real-time web search, reasoning, and research through Perplexity's API

7

Tavily

by tavily-ai

A

MCP server for advanced web search using Tavily

8

Search

by bytedance

A

MCP server for web search operations

9

Perplexity API Platform

by perplexity.ai

A

Real-time web search, reasoning, and research through Perplexity's API

10

SearXNG Search

by ihor-sokoliuk

B

MCP server for SearXNG — privacy-respecting web search with pagination, URL reading

11

Exa Search

by pollinations

A

Search the live web and fetch clean content from source pages.

12

Search1API

by superagents-lab

A

Multi-engine web and platform search, news, Google Maps places, page reading, sitemaps, and trends.

13

Exa

by exa.ai

A

Connect AI agents to Exa for web search, content fetching, and multi-step research.

14

Free Search

by sweetcornna

B

No-API-key web search, page fetching and document reading across many engines. Local-first.

15

FrankenSurf

by yail259

A

Read any web page and search the web: 28 tools, cheapest first, every page checked.

16

Tinysearch

by TinySuiteHQ

B

Fast discovery search and self-hosted web research for MCP agents.

17

CLIO Web

by iowarp

A

Provider-fixed web search plus transparent URL, DOI, and document fetching

Local-first, cloud-friendly memory — 100+ tools, 99.2% LongMemEval-S retrieval@8, hybrid search.

19

Markdown Vault MCP

by pvliesdonk

B

Generic markdown vault MCP with hybrid search

20

SerpApi

by serpapi

A

Official SerpApi MCP server for Google, Bing, and other search engines.

21

HasData Bing

by hasdata.com

A

Bing search results with the ad block and Copilot answer, geo and market targeting, as JSON.

22

all2md

by thomas-villani

A

Read, convert, search, diff and outline PDF, Word, PowerPoint, HTML and 40+ formats as Markdown.

23

Silica Core

by kiycoh

A

Retrieval over the folder the session opened: files, search, read, code_pack, write_note.