The best Research MCP servers
Give your agents real research superpowers — live web search, page fetching, academic lookups, and structured data gathering — as callable MCP tools. Connect once on BusinessMCP so any agent can gather, verify, and synthesize information from your unified endpoint.
Official connectors first, then verified entries, then by how many tools they expose.
Brave Search (Official)
brave
Official Anthropic Brave Search MCP. Web search with rich, structured results for AI consumption.
Tavily
tavily
AI-optimized search engine for research. Get comprehensive, accurate results with built-in summarization.
AI Research Assistant
hamid-vakilzadeh
Access millions of academic papers through Semantic Scholar and arXiv, with comprehensive search, citation analysis, and full-text PDF extraction.
Reddit is a social news platform with user-driven communities, offering content sharing, discussions, and viral marketing opportunities.
Perplexity
perplexity
AI-powered research with citations. Get accurate answers backed by real-time web sources and references.
DeepWiki
Cognition
Ask questions about any public GitHub repository and get answers grounded in an indexed wiki of that codebase.
Airbnb Search
geobio
Search Airbnb listings and retrieve detailed information. Get structured JSON data without requiring an API key.
Browserbase
browserbase
Cloud browser automation using Stagehand and Browserbase, enabling LLMs to interact with web pages, take screenshots, and run parallel sessions.
Korean Law Search
rabqatab
Search and retrieve Korean statutes and administrative rules with precise filters. Access English translations.
Macrostrat Geology
blake365
Explore global geologic data for bedrock, formations, ages, and stratigraphy. Generate geology map tiles.
OpenLegi
rdassignies
MCP server for French legal sources: Legifrance, Judilibre, Registre National des Entreprises.
Paper Search v2
TitanSneaker
Find and download academic papers from arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, CrossRef, and IACR.
Tweet Search
janwilmake
Search Twitter using advanced operators to find relevant tweets, media, and links. Filter by users, hashtags, dates.
Wolfram Alpha
nicekid1
Wolfram Alpha computational intelligence. Answer questions, compute math, and access curated knowledge.
YouTube MCP
sfiorini
Search and browse videos, channels, and playlists. Retrieve multilingual, timestamped transcripts and search within captions.
Bible MCP
cameronapak
Get Scripture from the Bible using Bible MCP. Open source and freely given.
Cloudflare Docs
chuhuoyuan
Search Cloudflare documentation across Workers, Pages, R2, Zero Trust, and more.
DuckDuckGo & Felo AI Search
OEvortex
Fast, privacy-friendly web and AI-powered search capabilities with integrated content and metadata extraction.
Google Scholar Search
mochow13
Academic paper search capabilities by querying Google Scholar through a standardized MCP interface.
Paper Search
adamamer20
Search and download academic papers from arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, Google Scholar, and more.
Parallel Web Search
parallel
Highest accuracy web search for AIs.
Seltz
seltz-ai
Provides AI assistants with access to Seltz's powerful Web Search capabilities.
Singapore Gov Open Data
aniruddha-adhikary
Access open datasets and collections from data.gov.sg. Enable searching, metadata retrieval, and filtered dataset downloads.
Compare all 23 at a glanceShowHide
| Server | Tools | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Brave Search (Official) | 6 | Verified |
| Tavily | 6 | Verified |
| AI Research Assistant | 7 | — |
| 7 | — | |
| Perplexity | 6 | — |
| DeepWiki | 3 | Verified |
| Airbnb Search | 7 | — |
| Browserbase | 7 | — |
| Korean Law Search | 7 | — |
| Macrostrat Geology | 7 | — |
| OpenLegi | 7 | — |
| Paper Search v2 | 7 | — |
| Tweet Search | 7 | — |
| Wolfram Alpha | 7 | — |
| YouTube MCP | 7 | — |
| Bible MCP | 6 | — |
| Cloudflare Docs | 6 | — |
| DuckDuckGo & Felo AI Search | 6 | — |
| Google Scholar Search | 6 | — |
| Paper Search | 6 | — |
| Parallel Web Search | 6 | — |
| Seltz | 6 | — |
| Singapore Gov Open Data | 6 | — |
How we rank theseShowHide
Official connectors we host come first, then verifiedentries — ones where we hold the server’s own repository or the vendor’s own docs and have checked the link resolves — then the rest by how many agent-callable tools they expose. A listing on another directory doesn’t count as verification. We don’t publish install counts for third-party servers, because we have no way to measure them, and anything its maintainers have archived says so on the card. A dash in the Tools column means we haven’t listed that server’s tools yet, not that it has none.
Frequently asked questions
What is a Research MCP server?
It exposes research capabilities — web search, scraping, or academic databases — as agent-callable functions over MCP, so AI agents can pull live, sourced information instead of relying on stale training data.
Can agents cite their sources?
Yes. Research servers return structured results with URLs and metadata, so agents can ground answers in real sources and hand back citations.
Which models can use these?
All of them — connections are model-agnostic across Claude, GPT, Gemini, and local agents.
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