Research – MCP Servers Compared

42 MCP servers in the Research category at a direct glance.

AI Research Assistant

Hamid Vakilzadeh

Official Free remote

Remote MCP server for scholarly search, author analysis, and citation networks with Semantic Scholar.

Agent News MCP Server

The Agent Times

Official Free remote

Official Agent News MCP Server – verified real-time news and stats on the AI agent economy.

Claude Code Codex Cursor
Proprietary View details β†’
Apify MCP Server

Apify

Official both

Official Apify MCP for Actors, web-data extraction, and automation in an AI client.

Claude Code Cursor
BCB SGS MCP Server

Sidney Bissoli

Free both

Research Brazilian economic indicators, Focus expectations and PTAX exchange rates.

BLS Labor MCP Server

cyanheads

Free both

Research US labor and price statistics through a community MCP server.

Apache-2.0 View details β†’
Brave Search MCP Server

Brave Software, Inc.

Official Free both

Official MCP server by Brave for web search, local places, videos, images, news, and AI summarization via Brave's independent index.

Claude Code Codex Cursor
Bright Data MCP Server

Bright Data

Official both

Official Bright Data MCP: web search, scraping, structured data extraction, and browser automation for AI agents.

Claude Code Cursor

Remote MCP server for live data-center, power-grid, energy, and infrastructure intelligence.

Data Fair MCP Server

Koumoul

Official Free both

Discover, understand and analyze Data Fair datasets through targeted queries.

DataHub MCP Server

Acryl Data

Official Free both

Official MCP server for searching and inspecting DataHub metadata, lineage, and trust signals from an AI client.

Claude Code Codex Cursor
81 Apache-2.0 View details β†’
EIA Energy MCP Server

cyanheads

Free both

Explore US energy statistics through the EIA API and a community MCP server.

Apache-2.0 View details β†’
EmblemAI MCP

EmblemAI

Official remote

Hosted EmblemAI MCP server for wallet, blockchain, NFT, market, and research workflows with explicitly separated transaction access.

Exa MCP Server

Exa

Official remote

Official hosted Exa MCP for web search, webpage fetching, and optional multi-step research in an AI client.

Claude Code Codex Cursor
Ferryhopper

Ferryhopper

Official remote

Remote MCP server from Ferryhopper for ferry ports, connections, trip discovery, and a safer booking handoff.

Fetch MCP

Model Context Protocol

Official Free local

Official MCP reference server for fetching and converting web content to markdown.

Claude Code Codex Cursor
Firecrawl MCP Server

Firecrawl

Official Free both

Official Firecrawl MCP server for web scraping, web search, multi-page crawling, document parsing, and recurring page monitoring.

Claude Code Codex Cursor
Gondola MCP Server

Gondola

Official Free remote

Official remote MCP server for travel, hotel, flight, and rental-car search with cash-versus-points comparison.

Claude Code Codex Cursor
Hugging Face MCP Server

Hugging Face

Official Free both

Official Hugging Face MCP server that lets AI assistants search Hub models, datasets, papers, and Spaces, and use community tools.

Claude Code Cursor
IBGE Brasil MCP

Sidney Bissoli

Official Free remote

Remote MCP server from Sidney Bissoli for live, citable data from Brazil’s official statistics and geography institute IBGE.

IMF MCP Server

cyanheads

Free both

Explore IMF macroeconomic data through an independent community server.

Apache-2.0 View details β†’
Jina AI MCP Server

Jina AI

Official remote

Jina AI official remote MCP endpoint for web search, reading, embeddings, reranking, and source-grounded work.

845 Apache-2.0 View details β†’
KPI Depot MCP Server

KPI Depot

Official Free remote

Research KPI definitions, formulas and access-dependent benchmarks from an AI client.

Keenable Web Search

Keenable

Official Free remote

Keenable remote MCP server for ranked web search and clean page-content retrieval.

Listen to Sadhu

Official Free remote_http

Vedic scripture and recorded lectures via MCP

Public domain texts + ISKCON fair-use terms View details β†’
Mapbox MCP Server

Mapbox

Official Free both

Official Mapbox MCP server: geocoding, routing, travel-time zones, and map images directly in your AI client.

Claude Code Codex Cursor
Medical Terminologies MCP

Sidney Bissoli

Official Free remote

Remote MCP server from Sidney Bissoli for documented search and mapping across medical terminologies.

Menjometre MCP Server

Feeder LLC

Official Free remote

Read-only MCP server for open data on grants, contracts, and public transparency in Catalonia.

Claude Code Codex Cursor
AGPL-3.0-or-later View details β†’
Niche

SailQuery

Official remote

Remote MCP server from SailQuery for signal research, story angles, brand voice, and platform-native content workflows.

OurAirports MCP Server

cyanheads

Free both

Look up airport codes and geographic reference data from a bundled OurAirports dataset.

Apache-2.0 View details β†’
Perplexity MCP Server

Perplexity AI, Inc.

Official both

Official Perplexity MCP for current web search, research, and reasoning in an AI client.

Claude Code Codex Cursor
Pick an Agency MCP Server

Pick an Agency

Official Free both

Search marketing agencies and build a reasoned shortlist from directory data.

Claude Code Cursor
PubMed MCP Server

Casey Hand

Official Free remote

Remote MCP server from Casey Hand for searching, reviewing, and citing biomedical literature.

148 Apache-2.0 View details β†’
Qdrant MCP Server

Qdrant

Official Free both

Official MCP server that stores information in Qdrant and retrieves it through semantic search.

Claude Code Codex Cursor
1.539 Apache-2.0 View details β†’
SAP MCP Server

OOBE Protocol

Official remote

OOBE Protocol hosted SAP MCP server for Synapse Agent Protocol, Solana, identity, payment, and transaction tools.

Socialcrawl MCP Server

SocialCrawl

Official Free local

Official MCP server for SocialCrawl data from social media, reviews, trends, search, and web research.

Claude Code Codex Cursor
SparkForge MCP Server

SparkForge

Official Free remote

Remote MCP server for utility APIs covering media, documents, web, development, and crypto research.

Tavily MCP Server

Tavily

Official both

Official Tavily MCP server for web search, extraction, website mapping, and crawling directly in a connected AI client of choice.

Claude Code Codex Cursor
URL Safety Validator MCP

Kord Agencies

Official Free remote

Remote MCP server for checking untrusted URLs before fetching, visiting, or forwarding them.

Zipp

Deficlow

Official Free remote

Official hosted MCP server for multilingual crypto news with editorial signals and source attribution.

Claude Code Codex Cursor
cityparity MCP Server

Skyler Bissell

Official Free remote

Remote MCP server from cityparity for transparent city, relocation, and cost-of-living comparisons.

Claude Code Codex Cursor
lahend MCP Server

lahend

Official Free remote

Free MCP server for Estonian case law: full-text search of court decisions and legislation, linked to the business register.

Riigi Teataja avaandmed (Public Data) View details β†’
nimistuMCP

Nimistu MTÜ

Official Free remote

Official read-only MCP server from nimistu.ee for traceable Estonian business and register data.

1 MIT / CC BY-SA 4.0 View details β†’