best of · updated August 2026

The 15 best search MCP servers

The 15 search MCP servers worth your time, out of 207 we track - actively maintained, with real adoption, ranked on monthly installs, GitHub stars, and commit recency. Checked nightly.

Search MCP servers connect an agent to web or document search APIs. Weigh freshness, result richness (snippets vs full pages), and rate limits or API keys required before install.

01 SearXNG Search ★ 1,158 · commit 2026-08-25 Privacy-respecting web search for AI assistants - use an operator-controlled or trusted SearXNG instance with Claude, Cursor, and more. 87,552 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · needs 3 env vars $ npx -y mcp-searxng 02 Blockrun MCP ★ 388 · commit 2026-08-21 Real-time data - and real trades - for Claude and any AI agent. 8,534 installs/mo · 20 tools documented · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y @blockrun/mcp 03 Server Search ★ 38,704 · commit 2026-08-05 MCP server for web search operations 515 installs/mo · no env vars documented $ npx -y @agent-infra/mcp-server-search 04 Tinysearch ★ 214 · commit 2026-08-24 Self-hosted web research for MCP agents. 1,302 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ uvx tinysuite-search 05 Vexor ★ 239 · commit 2026-08-23 A semantic search engine for files and code. 1,154 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · needs 2 env vars $ uvx vexor 06 Agent Search MCP ★ 107 · commit 2026-08-17 A Node.js MCP server and CLI for English and Chinese web search. 2,237 installs/mo · 7 tools documented · 7 releases/90d · needs 1 env var $ npx -y agent-search-mcp 07 Tachibot MCP ★ 15 · commit 2026-08-16 Multi-model AI orchestration with 31 tools, YAML workflows, and 5 token-optimized profiles. 5,218 installs/mo · 3 releases/90d · needs 6 env vars $ npx -y tachibot-mcp 08 Scavio ★ 7 · commit 2026-08-18 40 documented tools with a focus on youtube; offers a remote endpoint. 2,261 installs/mo · 40 tools documented · needs 2 env vars $ npx -y @scavio/mcp-server 09 Alfanous - Quranic Search Engine ★ 287 · commit 2026-06-14 Alfanous is a Quranic search engine API that provides simple and advanced search capabilities for the Holy Qur'an. 707 installs/mo · 2 releases/90d · no env vars documented $ uvx alfanous3-mcp 10 BrowseAI Dev ★ 20 · commit 2026-08-23 Research infrastructure for AI agents with Grounded Intelligence - real-time web search, evidence extraction, verification, and structured citations. 803 installs/mo · needs 1 env var $ npx -y browseai-dev 11 Argus Retrieval ★ 3 · commit 2026-08-25 Multi-provider search broker for AI agents: 14 providers, 12-step extraction, retrieval workflows. 1,258 installs/mo · needs 10 env vars $ uvx argus-search 12 Bisibility ★ 2 · commit 2026-08-14 Distribution status and release channels 1,276 installs/mo · needs 5 env vars $ npx -y @bisibility/mcp 13 Web Search ★ 2 · commit 2026-08-23 Live web search and clean-markdown page fetch over the Keenable web index. 477 installs/mo · 2 tools documented · 1 release/90d · needs 1 env var $ npx -y @keenable/mcp 14 Crazy SEO ★ 4 · commit 2026-08-05 Find out whether ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity recommend your site - and why they don't. 900 installs/mo · needs 3 env vars $ npx -y crazyseo 15 Inquisitor ★ 5 · commit 2026-08-05 Hypothesis-driven problem solving for AI agents Probe · Falsify · Escalate - never overcomplicate, never blind-retry. 775 installs/mo · 5 tools documented · 5 releases/90d · no env vars documented $ uvx inquisitor-mcp

How to choose between them

SearXNG Search tops the list - the most installs (87,552 last month) and actively maintained. 3 of these 15 offer a remote endpoint (no local process to run); the rest are local stdio servers. 5 document no required env vars - paste the config and go; the others need env vars set first (each page lists exactly which). Where we've compared two of these head-to-head, the comparison is linked on each one's page.

Quick answers

Which search MCP server is most installed?

SearXNG Search, with 87,552 installs in the last month (as of August 2026). By GitHub stars the leader is Server Search (38,704).

How many search MCP servers exist?

We track 207 search MCP servers in the official registry. The 15 above are the actively-maintained ones with real adoption - ranked by monthly installs, GitHub stars, and commit recency.

All 47 search MCP servers

Ranked 16 onward, same order as above. Status checked last night.

How this list is ranked

Ranked from live registry + GitHub data: monthly installs (npm/PyPI), GitHub stars, and commit recency - recomputed nightly. No pay-to-rank, ever. The 15 above lead the full list of 47, all of which you can see on this page. The other 160 we track have stopped being maintained, or nobody is using them yet. Full recipe: how we verify.