Tako alternatives
24 web search MCP servers from other publishers do the same job as Tako. The closest match comes first, then the best rated, with at most two per publisher.
Search the live web and fetch clean content from source pages.
No reviews yetgateway-ready5.2kFreeWeb search via SearXNG and/or You.com, plus clean Markdown crawling via Crawl4AI. Self-hosted.
No reviews yetlocal · pypi167213/wkFreeProvider-fixed web search plus transparent URL, DOI, and document fetching
No reviews yetlocal · pypi308.9k/wkFreeSearch 6.3M+ live jobs from companies' own career pages, plus resume tailoring & cover letters.
No reviews yetgateway-ready316FreeGlobal customs trade data and company registry. Search shipments, and look up legal entities.
5.0(1)gateway-readyFreeSearch, 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/wkFreeBrave Search MCP Server: web results, images, videos, rich results, AI summaries, and more.
No reviews yetlocal · npm1.6k35k/wkFreeSearch and book flights and hotels: hundreds of airlines, plus bookable hotel rates.
No reviews yetgateway-ready2.1k145/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/wkFreeMulti-engine web and platform search, news, Google Maps places, page reading, sitemaps, and trends.
No reviews yetgateway-ready173812/wkFreeConnect AI agents to Exa for web search, content fetching, and multi-step research.
No reviews yetgateway-ready5.2kFreeNo-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/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/wkFreeToken-efficient code review knowledge graph: semantic search and call-graph resolution.
No reviews yetlocal · pypi761.1k/wkFreeUnofficial MCP server for Alza.cz: catalog search plus token-guarded account and checkout.
No reviews yetlocal · npm79481/wkFreeRoutes tasks to Suede skills, grades live pages A-F for Google and AI search, and checks copy.
No reviews yetlocal · npm12643/wkFreeSearch and analyze global news coverage and US TV transcripts via the GDELT Project APIs.
No reviews yetgateway-ready6942/wkFree
Tako alternatives by what you need
Open source Tako alternatives (20)
Published under an open licence such as MIT or Apache-2.0.
Exa Search, searxNcrawl, CLIO Web, Workopia — Job Search, Zotero MCP, Perplexity API Platform (moved to ai.perplexity/mcp-server), Tavily, Search and 12 more below.
Hosted Tako alternatives (9)
Nothing to install: a remote endpoint you add by URL. Also callable through the mcp.market gateway.
Exa Search, Workopia — Job Search, The Company Atlas, LetsFG — Flights & Hotels, webclaw, Search1API, Exa, Brave and 1 more below.
Local Tako alternatives (15)
A package you install and run on your own machine, so your data stays on your computer.
searxNcrawl, CLIO Web, Zotero MCP, Perplexity API Platform (moved to ai.perplexity/mcp-server), Tavily, Search, Perplexity API Platform, Brave Search and 7 more below.
Safest Tako alternatives (16)
Graded A: passed every check the scanner runs on the latest release.
Exa Search, searxNcrawl, CLIO Web, Perplexity API Platform (moved to ai.perplexity/mcp-server), Tavily, Search, Perplexity API Platform, Brave Search and 8 more below.
Tako and its alternatives compared
| Server | Grade | Rating | Licence | Runs | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tako(this one) | A89 | No reviews yet | MIT | Hosted | 6 |
| Exa Search | A88 | No reviews yet | MIT | Hosted | 5.2k |
| searxNcrawl | A85 | No reviews yet | MIT | Local | 167 |
| CLIO Web | A94 | No reviews yet | BSD-3-Clause | Local | 30 |
| Workopia — Job Search | B77 | No reviews yet | MIT | Hosted | 316 |
| The Company Atlas | B78 | 5.0 (1) | Not stated | Hosted | 0 |
| 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 |
| Brave Search | A85 | No reviews yet | MIT | Local | 1.6k |
| LetsFG — Flights & Hotels | A99 | No reviews yet | NOASSERTION | Hosted | 2.1k |
| SearXNG Search | B83 | No reviews yet | MIT | Local | 1.3k |
| webclaw | A92 | No reviews yet | AGPL-3.0 | Hosted | 2.4k |
| Search1API | A96 | No reviews yet | NOASSERTION | Hosted | 173 |
| Exa | A91 | No reviews yet | MIT | Hosted | 5.2k |
| Free Search | B83 | No reviews yet | MIT | Local | 169 |
| FrankenSurf | A92 | No reviews yet | Apache-2.0 | Local | 46 |
| Brave | A97 | No reviews yet | MIT | Hosted | 1.5k |
| Tinysearch | B82 | No reviews yet | MIT | Local | 233 |
| Crg | B75 | No reviews yet | Apache-2.0 | Local | 76 |
| Alza | B77 | No reviews yet | NOASSERTION | Local | 79 |
| Suede AI Skills MCP | A92 | No reviews yet | MIT | Local | 126 |
| Gdelt | A93 | No reviews yet | Apache-2.0 | Hosted | 6 |