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Best MCP servers for web search

Search tools are easy to bloat. A server that answers with a short tool list ranks ahead of one that ships an encyclopedia before the first query.

234 in the snapshot. 90 non-dead report pages are ranked here. Dead endpoints are left out of a “best” list.See the whole category.

#1 for Web search

Alive

exa

Connect AI agents to Exa for web search, content fetching, and multi-step research.

Score
95
Tool tokens
551

#2 for Web search

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SerpApi

Official SerpApi MCP server for Google, Bing, and other search engines.

Score
94
Tool tokens
1,272

#3 for Web search

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Firecrawl MCP Server

MCP server for Firecrawl — web search, scraping, and biomedical/arXiv paper search.

Score
89
Tool tokens
5,905

#4 for Web search

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agentready

Can ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity reach and read a website? Score, problems found and fixes.

Score
83
Tool tokens
100

#5 for Web search

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Citewren

AI search readiness MCP: score a site for ChatGPT/Claude/Perplexity crawlers. 3 free/day.

Score
83
Tool tokens
162

#6 for Web search

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google-search

google search: google web search api, web, images, videos, news, music, favicon, proxy, audio.

Score
83
Tool tokens
172

#7 for Web search

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google-web-search

Google Web Search: Google Web Search API. Search the world’s information, including webpages.

Score
83
Tool tokens
277

#9 for Web search

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search-mcp

Web search and clean-text page fetch for AI agents, with SSRF protection.

Score
83
Tool tokens
256

#10 for Web search

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search-mcp

Web search and clean-text fetch MCP server (Tavily-powered, SSRF-guarded).

Score
83
Tool tokens
256

#11 for Web search

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Agent Wholesale

Pay-per-call web search, keyword trends, and evidence-backed public-page change intelligence.

Score
82
Tool tokens
481

#12 for Web search

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AgentReader

Read any URL, page, PDF or RSS feed as clean Markdown/JSON; extract fields; web search. x402.

Score
82
Tool tokens
851