best of · updated September 2026
The 15 best search MCP servers
The 15 search MCP servers worth your time, out of 243 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.
$ npx -y mcp-searxng 02 Blockrun MCP ★ 394 · commit 2026-09-16 Real-time data - and real trades - for Claude and any AI agent. 5,997 installs/mo · 19 tools documented · 10+ releases/90d · needs 4 env vars $ npx -y @blockrun/mcp 03 Server Search ★ 39,038 · commit 2026-09-11 MCP server for web search operations 516 installs/mo · no env vars documented $ npx -y @agent-infra/mcp-server-search 04 Vexor ★ 241 · commit 2026-09-12 A semantic search engine for files and code. 2,958 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · needs 2 env vars $ uvx vexor 05 Tachibot MCP ★ 14 · commit 2026-09-14 Multi-model AI orchestration with 31 tools, YAML workflows, and 5 token-optimized profiles. 5,132 installs/mo · 5 releases/90d · needs 6 env vars $ npx -y tachibot-mcp 06 Tinysearch ★ 227 · commit 2026-09-05 Self-hosted web research for MCP agents. 1,416 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · needs 3 env vars $ uvx tinysuite-search 07 Agent Search MCP ★ 110 · commit 2026-09-16 A Node.js MCP server and CLI for English and Chinese web search. 751 installs/mo · 7 tools documented · 7 releases/90d · needs 1 env var $ npx -y agent-search-mcp 08 HasData Google Search (SERP) ★ 22 · commit 2026-09-14 A hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives Claude, Cursor, Windsurf and any other MCP client eight read-only Google Search tools. 1,031 installs/mo · 7 tools documented · 3 releases/90d · needs 1 env var $ npx -y @hasdata/google-search-mcp 09 Last Search ★ 20 · commit 2026-09-14 Research infrastructure for AI agents with Grounded Intelligence - real-time web search, evidence extraction, verification, and structured citations. 1,165 installs/mo · needs 1 env var $ npx -y lastsearch 10 HasData Google Trends ★ 6 · commit 2026-09-14 A hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives Claude, Cursor, Windsurf and any other MCP client one Google Trends tool. 1,125 installs/mo · 1 tools documented · 3 releases/90d · needs 1 env var $ npx -y @hasdata/google-trends-mcp 11 Argus Retrieval ★ 5 · commit 2026-09-18 Multi-provider search broker for AI agents: 14 providers, 12-step extraction, retrieval workflows. 1,646 installs/mo · 1 release/90d · needs 10 env vars $ uvx argus-search 12 Agent Web Search ★ 6 · commit 2026-09-14 Agent-native web search for AI agents - aggregating model-native search and agent search providers, not traditional search engines. 1,436 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · needs 3 env vars $ uvx agent-web-search-mcp 13 Openwebninja MCP ★ 36 · commit 2026-09-17 Official Model Context Protocol server for OpenWeb Ninja APIs. 282 installs/mo · needs 1 env var $ npx -y @openwebninja/mcp-server 14 Alfanous - Quranic Search Engine ★ 289 · commit 2026-06-14 Alfanous is a Quranic search engine API that provides simple and advanced search capabilities for the Holy Qur'an. 888 installs/mo · no env vars documented $ uvx alfanous3-mcp 15 Mu ★ 432 · commit 2026-09-18 The runtime for Micro, a personal assistant. 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ claude mcp add micro-mu --transport http https://micro.mu/mcp How to choose between them
SearXNG Search tops the list - the most installs (57,841 last month) and actively maintained. 3 of these 15 offer a remote endpoint (no local process to run); the rest are local stdio servers. 3 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 57,841 installs in the last month (as of September 2026). By GitHub stars the leader is Server Search (39,038).
How many search MCP servers exist?
We track 243 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 51 search MCP servers
Ranked 16 onward, same order as above. Status checked last night.
- Scavio ★ 7
- Bisibility ★ 2
- HasData Bing ★ 15
- Web Search ★ 6
- Webfetch (firish) ★ 55
- Geo Tool Check ★ 2
- Serp API ★ 171
- Inquisitor ★ 5
- Searchpin - Free Web Search for AI Agents ★ 26
- Crazy SEO ★ 4
- OpenResearch MCP ★ 10
- VelesDB Memory ★ 91
- Quran Search Engine MCP ★ 6
- Citation Intelligence ★ 8
- Wayforth ★ 2
- Wisepanel ★ 3
- Linkup Platform Linkup MCP Server ★ 29
- iFlow Search ★ 32
- sqry - Semantic Code Search ★ 30
- AI Seo ★ 3
- Sylex Search ★ 4
- AI Visibility ★ 9
- Libre Justice ★ 29
- Webgate ★ 3
- Indexnow ★ 2
- Localseodata MCP Server ★ 3
- Retrieval ★ 12
- Hadith Checker [Dorar.net] ★ 6
- Hawkeye AI Bridge ★ 2
- Qsearch ★ 2
- Open Archives ★ 4
- Arjunkmrm Perplexity Search ★ 10
- Landed ★ 3
- Search Forge ★ 2
- Searxng MCP ★ 9
- Webshift ★ 7
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 51, all of which you can see on this page. The other 192 we track have stopped being maintained, or nobody is using them yet. Full recipe: how we verify.