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Best Search & Web Data MCP Servers (2026): Top 10 Compared
Compare the best Search & Web Data MCP servers: 10 ranked picks from 845 available entries, ordered by recorded quality score, then non-monorepo repository stars. Shared monorepo stars are not used for ranking.
Best Search & Web Data MCP servers at a glance
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| Rank / Server | Repo Stars | Last Push | Tools | Transports | Remote | Auth | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Brave Search | 91,342 repo stars (monorepo) | — | stdio | No | — | — | |
| 2. Firecrawl MCP Server | 7,629 repo stars | 27 | stdio | No | — | MIT | |
| 3. Exa MCP Server | 5,136 repo stars | 7 | stdio | No | — | MIT | |
| 4. wigolo | 5,482 repo stars | — | — | No | — | — | |
| 5. ArXiv MCP Server | 3,223 repo stars | 5 | stdio | No | — | Apache-2.0 | |
| 6. Tavily MCP Server | 2,437 repo stars | 5 | stdio | No | — | MIT | |
| 7. Apify MCP Server | 11,782 repo stars | 19 | stdio | No | — | MIT | |
| 8. firecrawl-mcp-server | 7,629 repo stars | — | stdio | No | — | MIT | |
| 9. paper-search-mcp | 2,858 repo stars | — | stdio | No | — | — | |
| 10. octocode-mcp | 950 repo stars | — | stdio | No | — | — |
How we ranked Search & Web Data MCP servers
Ranked by the stored quality_score, then non-monorepo repository stars; shared monorepo stars are excluded from the star tie-break. Remaining ties use server slug order. Up to ten visible published or generated entries are shown. Missing scores sort below recorded scores. We do not reconstruct or invent a score.
Stars and last push prefer the latest GitHub stats row, with server fields as fallback. Shared repositories are explicitly labeled repo stars (monorepo), never per-server stars. Tools are documented snapshots, not live capability checks.
Re-ranked from request-time data. Indexing requires six editorially published servers, including three pushed within six months, plus explicit publication approval.
Brave Search
Best for teams seeking a documented stdio connection.
It has 91,342 repo stars (monorepo), shared across the repository, not per-server stars. The last recorded push was 2026-10-13. Recorded transports: stdio. Remote: No. License: —. Tool count: —.
Runtime: node. Authentication: —. Recorded quality score: 7.107895. Tags: web-and-local-search, search-api, brave-search.
Tool names: —.
Firecrawl MCP Server
Best for evaluating firecrawl_scrape alongside 26 other documented tools.
Its repository has 7,629 stars. The last recorded push was 2026-10-17. The documented tool list contains 27 tools. Recorded transports: stdio. Remote: No. License: MIT.
Runtime: node. Authentication: —. Recorded quality score: 6.949647. Tags: content-extraction, firecrawl, web-monitoring, web-scraping, web-search.
Tool names: firecrawl_scrape, firecrawl_map, firecrawl_search, firecrawl_search_feedback, firecrawl_feedback (+22 more).
Exa MCP Server
Best for evaluating web_search_exa alongside 6 other documented tools.
Its repository has 5,136 stars. The last recorded push was 2026-10-07. The documented tool list contains 7 tools. Recorded transports: stdio. Remote: No. License: MIT.
Runtime: node. Authentication: —. Recorded quality score: 6.649425. Tags: code-search, company-research, exa, web-content, web-search.
Tool names: web_search_exa, web_fetch_exa, web_search_advanced_exa, agent_create_run, agent_wait_for_run (+2 more).
wigolo
Best for evaluating a node runtime.
Its repository has 5,482 stars. The last recorded push was 2026-10-18. Remote: No. License: —. Tool count: —. Transports: —.
Runtime: node. Authentication: —. Recorded quality score: 6.536596. Tags: search, crawl, web, ai-agent, scraping, extraction, mcp, local-first, research.
Tool names: —.
ArXiv MCP Server
Best for evaluating search_papers alongside 4 other documented tools.
Its repository has 3,223 stars. The last recorded push was 2026-10-08. The documented tool list contains 5 tools. Recorded transports: stdio. Remote: No. License: Apache-2.0.
Runtime: python. Authentication: —. Recorded quality score: 6.447329. Tags: academic-search, arxiv, local-storage, research-papers.
Tool names: search_papers, download_paper, list_papers, read_paper, semantic_search.
Tavily MCP Server
Best for evaluating tavily_search alongside 4 other documented tools.
Its repository has 2,437 stars. The last recorded push was 2026-10-15. The documented tool list contains 5 tools. Recorded transports: stdio. Remote: No. License: MIT.
Runtime: node. Authentication: —. Recorded quality score: 6.403582. Tags: content-extraction, research, web-crawling, web-search.
Tool names: tavily_search, tavily_extract, tavily_crawl, tavily_map, tavily_research.
Apify MCP Server
Best for evaluating search-actors alongside 18 other documented tools.
Its repository has 11,782 stars. The last recorded push was 2026-10-16. The documented tool list contains 19 tools. Recorded transports: stdio. Remote: No. License: MIT.
Runtime: node. Authentication: —. Recorded quality score: 6.391755. Tags: actor-discovery, apify, automation, data-extraction, web-scraping.
Tool names: search-actors, fetch-actor-details, call-actor, get-actor-run, get-dataset-items (+14 more).
firecrawl-mcp-server
Best for teams seeking a documented stdio connection.
Its repository has 7,629 stars. The last recorded push was 2026-10-17. Recorded transports: stdio. Remote: No. License: MIT. Tool count: —.
Runtime: node. Authentication: —. Recorded quality score: 6.099647. Tags: data-extraction, firecrawl, web-scraping.
Tool names: —.
paper-search-mcp
Best for teams seeking a documented stdio connection.
Its repository has 2,858 stars. The last recorded push was 2026-10-02. Recorded transports: stdio. Remote: No. License: —. Tool count: —.
Runtime: —. Authentication: —. Recorded quality score: 5.980012. Tags: paper-search, academic-papers, research-assistant.
Tool names: —.
octocode-mcp
Best for teams seeking a documented stdio connection.
Its repository has 950 stars. The last recorded push was 2026-10-17. Recorded transports: stdio. Remote: No. License: —. Tool count: —.
Runtime: —. Authentication: —. Recorded quality score: 5.825083. Tags: code-discovery, ai-assistant, code-search.
Tool names: —.
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