Best MCP servers for search and RAG
Web search, local file search, database search and documentation retrieval — eight MCP servers that give an agent something to search. Compare install route, source and stars.
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| Tool | What it searches | Install | Source | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| exa-labs/exa-mcp-server | 🎖️ 📇 ☁️ - Real-time web search using the Exa AI Search API | — | awesome:punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers | 5,140 |
| firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server | Official Firecrawl MCP Server - Adds powerful web scraping and search to Cursor, Claude an | — | awesome:punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers | 7,624 |
| sooperset/mcp-atlassian | 🐍 ☁️ - Search, read, create and manage Confluence and Jira content, supporting Confluence | — | awesome:punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers | 6,010 |
| bram2w/baserow | Baserow database integration: search and list tables, and create, read, update and delete | — | awesome:punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers | 6,167 |
| wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP | 📇 🏠 🍎 🪟 🐧 - Manage and execute programs, and read, write, search and edit code and text fi | — | awesome:punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers | 10,086 |
| KnockOutEZ/wigolo | The go-to web for your AI coding agent — local-first search, fetch, crawl & research over | — | awesome:punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers | 5,482 |
| modelcontextprotocol/server-git | 🐍 🏠 - Read, search and analyze local Git repositories | — | awesome:punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers | 91,330 |
| upstash/context7 | 📇 ☁️ - Up-to-date code documentation for LLMs and AI code editors | — | awesome:punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers | 63,201 |
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