Trawlia alternatives
24 web search MCP servers from other publishers do the same job as Trawlia. 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 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/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/wkFreeYellow Pages local business search and full business listings, as structured JSON.
No reviews yetgateway-ready10231/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/wkFreeSearch arXiv papers, download full text, semantic search, citation graphs, and alerts via MCP.
No reviews yetlocal · pypi3.2k21k/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 the Claude Code Ultimate Guide and machine-readable references from any MCP client.
No reviews yetlocal · npm6.3k523/wkFreeMCP server for SearXNG — privacy-respecting web search with pagination, URL reading
No reviews yetlocal · npm1.3k13k/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/wkFreeConnect AI agents to Exa for web search, content fetching, and multi-step research.
No reviews yetgateway-ready5.2kFreeFailure-memory layer for coding agents: search evidence-rated failure lessons by error text.
No reviews yetlocal · pypi520762/wkFreeSection-level doc search for .md, .rst, .adoc, .org, .ipynb, .html, .yaml, .json, and OpenAPI specs.
No reviews yetlocal · pypi2041.8k/wkFreeWeb 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/wkFree
Trawlia alternatives by what you need
Open source Trawlia alternatives (21)
Published under an open licence such as MIT or Apache-2.0.
Exa Search, webclaw, Free Search, FrankenSurf, HasData Yellow Pages, Zotero MCP, Perplexity API Platform (moved to ai.perplexity/mcp-server), Arxiv and 13 more below.
Hosted Trawlia alternatives (8)
Nothing to install: a remote endpoint you add by URL. Also callable through the mcp.market gateway.
Exa Search, webclaw, Search1API, HasData Yellow Pages, Pubmed, Zoteus, Exa, Brave.
Local Trawlia alternatives (16)
A package you install and run on your own machine, so your data stays on your computer.
Free Search, FrankenSurf, Zotero MCP, Perplexity API Platform (moved to ai.perplexity/mcp-server), Arxiv, Tavily, Search, Perplexity API Platform and 8 more below.
Safest Trawlia alternatives (20)
Graded A: passed every check the scanner runs on the latest release.
Exa Search, webclaw, Search1API, FrankenSurf, HasData Yellow Pages, Perplexity API Platform (moved to ai.perplexity/mcp-server), Arxiv, Tavily and 12 more below.
Trawlia and its alternatives compared
| Server | Grade | Rating | Licence | Runs | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trawlia(this one) | B82 | No reviews yet | MIT | Local | 0 |
| Exa Search | A88 | No reviews yet | MIT | Hosted | 5.2k |
| webclaw | A92 | No reviews yet | AGPL-3.0 | Hosted | 2.4k |
| 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 |
| HasData Yellow Pages | A100 | No reviews yet | MIT | Hosted | 10 |
| 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 |
| Arxiv | A92 | No reviews yet | Apache-2.0 | Local | 3.2k |
| 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 |
| Claude Code Ultimate Guide | A92 | No reviews yet | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | Local | 6.3k |
| SearXNG Search | B83 | No reviews yet | MIT | Local | 1.3k |
| Pubmed | A93 | No reviews yet | Apache-2.0 | Hosted | 153 |
| Zoteus | A98 | No reviews yet | MIT | Hosted | 58 |
| Exa | A91 | No reviews yet | MIT | Hosted | 5.2k |
| Misakanet | A92 | No reviews yet | Apache-2.0 | Local | 520 |
| jDocmunch MCP | A92 | No reviews yet | NOASSERTION | Local | 204 |
| 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 |