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

Nerq found 6,254 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 82/100. MCP servers for web search, retrieval-augmented generation, and knowledge base queries.

Last updated: August 01, 2026 | 6,254 servers in this category | Data from Nerq

Top 20 MCP Servers for Web Search & RAG

#	Name	Stars	Trust	Author	License	Description
1	54yyyu/zotero-mcp	1,461	A 82	54yyyu	MIT	Zotero MCP: Connects your Zotero research library with Claude and other AI assistants via the Model
2	enuno/unifi-mcp-server	42	B 79	enuno	Apache-2.0	An MCP server that leverages official UniFi API
3	PaperBanana	1,265	B+ 77	https://github.com/llmsresearch/paperbanana	N/A	Generates publication-quality methodology diagrams and statistical plots from text descriptions usin
4	Octocode	880	B+ 75	https://github.com/bgauryy/octocode-mcp	N/A	Integrates with GitHub CLI and npm to provide repository analysis, code discovery, file exploration,
5	Apple Developer Documentation	625	B+ 75	https://github.com/mightydillah/apple-doc-mcp	N/A	Provides seamless access to Apple Developer Documentation with smart search capabilities and wildcar
6	DataForSEO	232	B+ 75	https://github.com/dataforseo/mcp-server-typescript	N/A	Integrates with DataForSEO's SEO and marketing analytics APIs to provide direct access to search eng
7	Bitbucket	24	B+ 75	https://github.com/aashari/mcp-server-atlassian-bitbucket	N/A	Integrates with Bitbucket Cloud and Server APIs to manage pull request workflows including creation,
8	PubMed	9	B+ 75	https://github.com/chrismannina/pubmed-mcp	N/A	Integrates with NCBI PubMed to provide literature search, article retrieval, author-based searches,
9	Stata	453	B 74	https://github.com/hanlulong/stata-mcp	N/A	Integrates Stata statistical software with code editors like VS Code and Cursor, enabling direct com
10	Proxmox	277	B 74	https://github.com/agentify-sh/cursor-proxmox-mcp	N/A	Integrates with Proxmox virtualization environments to enable monitoring and management of virtual m
11	Telegram	244	B 74	https://github.com/alexandertsai/mcp-telegram	N/A	Enables AI interaction with Telegram messaging platform through Python-based tools for sending/editi
12	Financial Modeling Prep	141	B 74	https://github.com/imbenrabi/financial-modeling-prep-mcp-server	N/A	Integrates with Financial Modeling Prep API to provide access to real-time and historical financial
13	Deep Code Reasoning	106	B 74	https://github.com/haasonsaas/deep-code-reasoning-mcp	N/A	Enables intelligent routing between Claude and Google's Gemini AI for complementary code analysis, l
14	MCPVault	1,515	B 74	https://github.com/bitbonsai/mcpvault	N/A	Lightweight MCP server for safe Obsidian vault access with 14 tools for reading, writing, and search
15	brave/brave-search-mcp-server	674	B 73	brave	N/A	MCP server: brave/brave-search-mcp-server
16	Hugging Face	261	B 73	https://github.com/huggingface/hf-mcp-server	N/A	Integrates with Hugging Face's ecosystem to search models, datasets, and papers while dynamically co
17	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
18	olgasafonova/mediawiki-mcp-server	5	B 73	olgasafonova	N/A	MCP server for MediaWiki wikis - search, read, and edit wiki content from AI assistants
19	Lenny's Podcast	33	B 72	https://github.com/akshayvkt/lenny-mcp	N/A	Provides searchable access to Lenny's Podcast transcripts for product management insights, using Fle
20	homelab-mcp	0	B 72	myraffy	N/A	Simplify homelab infrastructure management with MCP servers.

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MCP servers for web search, retrieval-augmented generation, and knowledge base queries. Nerq tracks 6,254 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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