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

Nerq found 2,886 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 54yyyu/zotero-mcp with 1,461 stars and a trust score of 88/100. MCP servers for web search, retrieval-augmented generation, and knowledge base queries.

Last updated: March 10, 2026 | 2,886 servers in this category | Data from Nerq

Top 20 MCP Servers for Web Search & RAG

#NameStarsTrustAuthorLicenseDescription
1 54yyyu/zotero-mcp 1,461 A 88 54yyyu MIT Zotero MCP: Connects your Zotero research library with Claude and other AI assistants via the Model
2 tavily-ai/tavily-mcp 1,218 A 88 tavily-ai MIT Production ready MCP server with real-time search, extract, map & crawl.
3 spences10/mcp-omnisearch 271 A 88 spences10 MIT 🔍 A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server providing unified access to multiple search engines (Tavily,
4 enuno/unifi-mcp-server 42 A 87 enuno Apache-2.0 An MCP server that leverages official UniFi API
5 Repo-Interrogator 1 A 86 taggedzi MIT A local tool for AI to inspect code repositories safely.
6 VectifyAI/pageindex-mcp 218 A 85 VectifyAI MIT MCP server for PageIndex. PageIndex is a vectorless reasoning-based RAG system which uses multi-step
7 apolosan/design_patterns_mcp 15 A 84 apolosan MIT MCP Server for suggestion of Design Patterns - Provides semantic search and recommendations for soft
8 mcp-kubernetes-documentation 0 A 84 martoc MIT MCP server for kubernetes.io docs
9 virtualization-mcp 1 A 83 sandraschi MIT VirtualBox management MCP server with comprehensive VM operations, networking, storage, snapshots, a
10 softerist/heuristic-mcp 10 A 83 softerist MIT Enhanced MCP server for semantic code search with call-graph proximity, recency ranking, and find-si
11 VincentKaufmann/noapi-google-search-mcp 59 A 82 VincentKaufmann MIT MCP server for Google search and page fetching using headless Chromium
12 admetlab-mcp 0 A 82 ToxMCP Apache-2.0 An MCP server for ADMETlab 3.0 used for washing, ADMET prediction, and CSV retrieval.
13 cloudflare-search 15 A 82 Yrobot GPL-3.0 A powerful search server based on Cloudflare Workers, enhancing AI tools with MCP.
14 SNAP 0 A 82 CLL-Automata MIT SNAP is an MCP server for code analysis and AI-driven retrieval.
15 duckduckgo-mcp-server 0 A 82 SoftwareHackerNick MIT A DuckDuckGo MCP server for web search and content processing.
16 Leghis/Smart-Thinking 31 A 81 Leghis MIT Smart-Thinking is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that delivers graph-based, multi-step reason
17 mcp-server-mql5 0 A 81 jhontd03 MIT An MCP server for MQL5 development that compiles code locally and searches official docs.
18 grok-mcp-server 0 A 81 hrco MIT MCP Server for xAI Grok API with chat, search, and tool chaining capabilities.
19 medha-mcp 11 A 81 tejzpr MPL-2.0 Medha MCP server offers persistent, git-versioned memory storage for LLM applications.
20 rayss868/MCP-Web-Curl 9 A 81 rayss868 MIT Lightweight MCP server and CLI that lets AI fetch and process web content or APIs with Puppeteer, sm

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MCP servers for web search, retrieval-augmented generation, and knowledge base queries. Nerq tracks 2,886 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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