Best MCP Servers for Web Search & RAG (May 2026)

Nerq found 4,119 MCP servers for web search & rag, ranked below by GitHub stars and weighted compliance score across 52 global AI jurisdictions. The top-ranked MCP server for web search & rag is Container Use with 3,687 stars and a trust score of 77/100. MCP servers for web search, retrieval-augmented generation, and knowledge base queries.

Last updated: May 03, 2026 | 4,119 servers in this category | Data from Nerq

Top 20 MCP Servers for Web Search & RAG

#	Name	Stars	Trust	Author	License	Description
1	Container Use	3,687	B+ 77	https://github.com/dagger/container-use	N/A	Provides containerized development environments that persist state across interactions through git-b
2	Sourcebot	3,200	B+ 77	https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot	N/A	Enables code search across multiple repository hosts including GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Gerrit, and Bi
3	Flux GitOps	579	B 74	https://github.com/controlplaneio-fluxcd/flux-operator	N/A	Provides a bridge between Kubernetes GitOps operations and Flux CD ecosystem, enabling debugging, re
4	OpenNutrition	172	B 74	https://github.com/deadletterq/mcp-opennutrition	N/A	Provides access to OpenNutrition's 300,000+ food database with tools for searching foods by name, br
5	google-search-mcp	0	B 74	VincentKaufmann	MIT	MCP server for Google search and page fetching using headless Chromium
6	guildbridge	0	B 74	dend	MIT	MCP server for Discord exposing read/search/post operations.
7	context-window-manager	0	B 73	mcp-tool-shop-org	N/A	MCP server for lossless LLM context restoration via KV cache persistence
8	filesystem-mcp	2	B 73	j0hanz	N/A	Read-only MCP server for secure filesystem exploration, searching, and analysis.
9	iosifache/annas-mcp	731	B 73	iosifache	N/A	MCP server and CLI tool for searching and downloading documents from Anna's Archive
10	aashari/mcp-server-atlassian-bitbucket	115	B 73	aashari	N/A	Node.js/TypeScript MCP server for Atlassian Bitbucket. Enables AI systems (LLMs) to interact with wo
11	olgasafonova/mediawiki-mcp-server	5	B 73	olgasafonova	N/A	MCP server for MediaWiki wikis - search, read, and edit wiki content from AI assistants
12	homelab-mcp	0	B 72	myraffy	N/A	Simplify homelab infrastructure management with MCP servers.
13	Tor-Search-MCP	0	B 72	BigBang142	N/A	Anonymously searches the web using Tor and the Model Context Protocol.
14	claude-code-perplexity-mcp	0	B 72	wynandw87	MIT	AI-powered web search, deep research, reasoning, code review, brainstorming, explanations, and file
15	jacksteamdev/obsidian-mcp-tools	590	B 72	Unknown	N/A	Add Obsidian integrations like semantic search and custom Templater prompts to Claude or any MCP cli
16	datagouv/datagouv-mcp	36	B 72	datagouv	MIT	Official data.gouv.fr Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that allows AI chatbots to search, explore
17	ddgs	2,177	B 72	deedy5	N/A	DDGS \| Dux Distributed Global Search aggregates results from diverse web search services.
18	NCP (MCP Orchestrator)	79	B 72	https://github.com/portel-dev/ncp	N/A	Intelligent orchestration layer that unifies multiple MCP servers into a single gateway with RAG-pow
19	Vectara	26	B 72	https://github.com/vectara/vectara-mcp	N/A	Provides a bridge between conversational interfaces and Vectara's Retrieval-Augmented Generation cap
20	Node.js API Documentation	10	B 72	https://github.com/lirantal/mcp-server-nodejs-api-docs	N/A	Provides up-to-date access to official Node.js core module documentation through search and retrieva

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MCP servers for web search, retrieval-augmented generation, and knowledge base queries. Nerq tracks 4,119 MCP servers in the web search & rag category, each assessed against 52 global AI regulations including the EU AI Act, US state AI laws (California SB53, Colorado SB205), UK AI Bill, and more. Compliance scores are weighted by jurisdiction penalty severity — jurisdictions with higher fines (like the EU AI Act at up to €35M) have more impact on the score than voluntary frameworks.

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