Pubmed MCP server
online · 100% uptimeSearch PubMed/Europe PMC, fetch articles and full text (PMC/EPMC/Unpaywall), citations, MeSH terms.
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153 stars8.3k downloads/wk
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Pubmed tools
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How Pubmed compares
Against every graded Web search MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 93/100
- higher than 95% of 3,470 Web search servers
- Uptime
- 100%
- of our recent checks; the typical remote Web search server answers 100%
- Response time
- 473 ms
- faster than 32% of 2,238 Web search servers
- GitHub stars
- 153
- more than 95% of 1,786 Web search servers
- Downloads a week
- 8,332
- more than 95% of 827 Web search servers with a package
Release history: 11 versions in the registry since 2026-09-13, latest 2026-11-03, typically one every 5 days.
Install Pubmed in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code
claude mcp add --transport http pubmed-mcp-server https://pubmed.caseyjhand.com/mcp
What the publisher says
From the Pubmed repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub
@cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server Search PubMed/Europe PMC, fetch articles and full text (PMC/EPMC/Unpaywall), citations, MeSH terms via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP. 11 Tools • 1 Resource • 1 Prompt
Public Hosted Server: https://pubmed.caseyjhand.com/mcp
Overview
The biomedical literature via NCBI's E-utilities, PubMed Central, and Europe PMC. Search it, fetch metadata and full text, resolve identifiers and partial citations, format references, and ground queries in MeSH vocabulary. Runs as a stdio process, a local Streamable HTTP server, or the public hosted endpoint above.
Tools
Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.
Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.
Pubmed: common questions
- Is Pubmed MCP server safe?
- Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (93/100). Read the Pubmed safety report
- How do I install Pubmed?
- It runs remotely at pubmed.caseyjhand.com. Add it to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.
- Does Pubmed need an API key?
- No secret keys are declared. It reads 14 settings from the environment.
- Is Pubmed maintained?
- The last commit was 37 days ago (2026-09-28). The latest release is v2.12.0.
- Is Pubmed up?
- 100% of our last 28 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
- What can I use instead of Pubmed?
- Servers from other publishers that do the same job: PubMed Search MCP server, Arxiv MCP server and obsei MCP server.
- How does Pubmed compare with other Web search MCP servers?
- safety score 93/100 (higher than 95% of 3,470 Web search servers); uptime 100% (of our recent checks; the typical remote Web search server answers 100%); response time 473 ms (faster than 32% of 2,238 Web search servers). Full comparison.
Alternatives to Pubmed
Same job from other publishers: the closest match first, then the best rated.
- PubMed SearchMulti-source biomedical literature search: PubMed, Europe PMC, OpenAlex, full text, citationsnot reviewedEstablishedB
- ArxivSearch arXiv papers, download full text, semantic search, citation graphs, and alerts via MCP.not reviewedWidely usedA
- obseiSelf-hosted customer feedback with PII stripped at ingest: search, stats and themes with citations.not reviewedEstablishedA
ZoteusZotero MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT: search, citations, safe writes, PDF passages and pages.not reviewedEstablishedA- MisakanetFailure-memory layer for coding agents: search evidence-rated failure lessons by error text.not reviewedEstablishedA
