At a glance
- Exa has 5,131 GitHub stars; 1 of the 10 alternatives have more (Firecrawl).
- Most-starred alternative: Firecrawl (7,607 stars).
- 5 of the 10 are tagged official (published by the vendor or the MCP project); 5 are in the official MCP Registry.
- None of them is archived or stale.
Comparison
| Server | Description | Stars | Last push | Status | Official registry | Tagged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exa ↗ | Official Exa MCP server for web search and crawling. | 5,131 | 2026-10-07 | Active | Yes | official |
| Firecrawl ↗ | Firecrawl MCP server for crawling and extracting clean web content. | 7,607 | 2026-10-15 | Active | — | community |
| Tavily ↗ | Official Tavily MCP server for real-time search, extract, and crawl. | 2,432 | 2026-10-05 | Active | Yes | official |
| Open-WebSearch ↗ | Multi-engine web search and page fetching MCP server for agents, with no API keys required. | 1,864 | 2026-10-08 | Active | — | — |
| DuckDuckGo ↗ | MCP server for web search through DuckDuckGo, plus fetching and parsing page content. | 1,537 | 2026-09-04 | Active | — | — |
| Brave Search ↗ | Official Brave Search MCP server for web and local search. | 1,498 | 2026-10-14 | Active | Yes | official |
| SearXNG ↗ | MCP server for private web search through a SearXNG instance. | 1,304 | 2026-10-13 | Active | Yes | community |
| CRW ↗ | Rust web scraper, crawler, and search API with an MCP server. | 1,131 | 2026-10-14 | Active | Yes | — |
| Jina AI ↗ | Official Jina AI remote MCP server for reading URLs, web search, embeddings, and reranking. | 882 | 2026-10-15 | Active | — | official |
| Kagi ↗ | Official Kagi MCP server for search and related research tools. | 542 | 2026-07-07 | Active | — | official |
| Search1API ↗ | Web and news search, page crawling, sitemaps, and trending topics through Search1API. | 173 | 2026-10-15 | Active | Yes | official |
Stars are for each server's own repository; servers that share a monorepo show "—". Tagged: official (published by the vendor or the MCP project) or community, as tagged in this directory. Status: Archived = the GitHub repo is archived; Stale = no push in the 12 months before the stats refresh. Sorted by stars, archived last. More in all search MCP servers.