Browser automation
Apify
By Apify
Apify's official MCP server lets AI find and run ready-made scrapers and automation tools, called Actors, and read their results.
- Official
MCP server category
Search and web MCP servers
Let assistants look things up on the web and cite their sources.
- 9 MCP servers
Language models only know what they were trained on. Search and web servers let an assistant look up current information, fetch a page and read it. That turns an assistant into a research helper for sales, market checks and support.
Web content can contain instructions meant to mislead an AI. Treat fetched text as data, not commands, and keep a person in the loop for anything the assistant does with it.
Search and web
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Search and web
Brave Search
By Brave
Brave's official MCP server gives AI live web, news, image, video and local search from Brave's own independent index.
- Official
Databases
Elasticsearch
By Elastic
Elastic's Agent Builder MCP endpoint lets AI search indices, run ES|QL queries and read mappings and documents in Elasticsearch.
- Official
Search and web
Exa
By Exa
Exa's official hosted MCP server gives AI search built for AI use, page fetching, advanced filters and a research agent.
- Official
Search and web
Fetch
By Model Context Protocol (reference server)
The MCP project's reference Fetch server lets AI download a web page and read it as clean text or markdown.
- Official
Browser automation
Firecrawl
By Firecrawl
Firecrawl's official MCP server lets AI scrape, map, crawl and search the web and get clean, AI-ready content back.
- Official
Search and web
Perplexity
By Perplexity AI
Perplexity's official MCP server lets AI search the web, ask questions with cited answers, run deeper research and reason over results.
- Official
Search and web
Tavily
By Tavily
Tavily's official MCP server gives AI web search, content extraction, site mapping and crawling, all built for AI use.
- Official
Search and web
YouTube Transcript
By Junpei Kawamoto (community)
A community MCP server that fetches public YouTube transcripts, timed transcripts, video details and available languages.
- Community
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Compare search providers on the quality of results for your topics, the cost per query and whether results include content ready for AI use. Ask the assistant to cite every source, and check a sample of answers by hand.
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View all related services- MCP integration Connect AI assistants to your CRM, files, databases and tools through Model Context Protocol servers, with safe permissions.
- AI agents AI that takes actions in your systems, such as qualifying leads or processing requests, with people checking the results.
- Business websites Fast, clear websites that explain what you do, rank in search and turn visitors into inquiries.
Solutions
View all solutions- AI sales research agent Short, sourced briefings on each prospect before a call, drafted by an AI agent from public information and your CRM.
- Price monitoring Collect competitor prices automatically, match them to your products and alert you when something changes.
- Compliance tracking Track filing deadlines, licenses and obligations in one place, with reminders and AI summaries of relevant rule changes.
Guides and articles
View all guides and articles- What are AI agents and how do businesses use them? What AI agents are, real business uses, the controls they need and how to start with one safely.
- What is the Model Context Protocol? A business guide to MCP: what it is, how MCP servers work, who supports it and how to start using it.
- How to build an AI workflow with MCP servers Plan, connect and test an AI workflow that uses MCP servers, from a single task to a reliable process.
- AI chatbot vs AI agent What separates a chatbot that answers from an agent that acts, and when you need each.
AI models
View all ai models- Reasoning Models that think through multi-step problems before answering: analysis, planning, math, complex documents and agent work.
- Claude Fable 5.1 The top tier of the Claude family, for the most demanding reasoning and long-horizon agent work, priced above Opus.
- Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic's recommended starting point for most serious work: long-running agentic coding and knowledge work, with a 1M token context window.
- GPT-6 Astra OpenAI's most capable model, built for the hardest end-to-end work: complex reasoning, coding, computer use and research.
- DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek's model for demanding reasoning and agent work, with thinking effort levels, tool calling, JSON output and a 1 million token window.
- Grok 4.7 xAI's current flagship for coding, agent tasks and knowledge work, with image input, tool calling, structured outputs, reasoning effort levels and a 500K window.
Glossary terms
View all glossary terms- AI agent An AI agent is software that uses a language model to plan steps, call tools and act toward a goal, instead of only answering one question.
- MCP server An MCP server is a program or hosted service that exposes a system's data and actions as tools that AI assistants can use through the Model Context Protocol.
- Model Context Protocol The Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is an open standard for connecting AI assistants to external tools and data in a consistent way.
- Tool calling Tool calling is when an AI model asks the application to run a tool, such as a search or database lookup, and then uses the result in its answer.