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Alternatives to Paper Search MCP
The closest alternative to Paper Search MCP is MCP Server Search (39.6k GitHub stars). All 7 alternatives below are mcp servers for the Idea phase, ranked by real adoption.
Looking for a different mcp server than Paper Search MCP? Here are the closest alternatives for the Idea phase, ranked by real adoption.
Ranked by Skillselion · adoption from the skills.sh registry & GitHub.
The best alternatives to Paper Search MCP for idea
| # | MCP Server | For | Stars | Installs | vs Paper Search MCP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MCP Server Search MCP server for web search operations | Claude Code | 39.6k | 0 | Compare → |
| 2 | Agent Skills Search Server MCP Search and discover Agent Skills from the skills.sh registry. Powered by HAPI MCP server. | Claude Code | 27.1k | 0 | Compare → |
| 3 | Apify MCP Extract data from any website with thousands of scrapers, crawlers, and automations on Apify Store ⚡ | Claude Code | 15.3k | 0 | Compare → |
| 4 | Firecrawl MCP MCP server for Firecrawl — search, scrape, and interact with the web. | Claude Code | 7.8k | 0 | Compare → |
| 5 | Exa MCP Fast, intelligent web search and web crawling.
New mcp tool: Exa-code is a context tool for coding | Claude Code | 5.2k | 0 | Compare → |
| 6 | Arxiv MCP Search arXiv papers, download full text, semantic search, citation graphs, and alerts via MCP. | Claude Code | 3.3k | 0 | Compare → |
| 7 | EdgarTools MCP Open-source SEC EDGAR toolkit — 11 tools, 7 prompts, every filing type. No API key required. | Claude Code | 2.8k | 0 | Compare → |
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