Scholar MCP alternatives
16 web search MCP servers from other publishers do the same job as Scholar MCP. The closest match comes first, then the best rated, with at most two per publisher.
Federated search of books and papers, BibTeX/RIS citations, open-access retrieval and reading.
No reviews yetgateway-ready13FreeZotero MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT: search, citations, safe writes, PDF passages and pages.
No reviews yetgateway-ready411.9k/wkFreeGoogle Scholar search results, citation counts and citation export formats, as structured JSON.
No reviews yetgateway-ready1041/wkFreeMCP server for the Semantic Scholar API: search 200M+ papers, citations, authors, recommendations.
No reviews yetlocal · pypi21310/wkFreeMCP server for SearXNG — privacy-respecting web search with pagination, URL reading
No reviews yetlocal · npm1.2k9.2k/wkFreeSearch PubMed/Europe PMC, fetch articles and full text (PMC/EPMC/Unpaywall), citations, MeSH terms.
No reviews yetgateway-ready1488.0k/wkFreeLocal personal memory for agents as MCP tools — remember, recall, search, context, graph traversal.
No reviews yetlocal · pypi182197/wkFreeTrack brand citations across five AI search engines. Free OSS; optional EUR 99 client-ready audit.
No reviews yetlocal · npm45279/wkFreePhoto management for self-hosted Immich: search, albums, duplicates, faces, PDF reports. 94 tools.
No reviews yetlocal · mixed50203/wkFreePersistent memory for AI assistants with semantic search and knowledge graph relationships.
No reviews yetlocal · mixed14382/wkFreeProduction MCP server for The Noun Project — search & download icons in Cursor/Claude with OAuth…
No reviews yetlocal · npm6439/wkFreeAll public upAPI operations as MCP tools: web scraping, search, screenshots, PDF, OCR and more.
No reviews yetgateway-ready213/wkFreeSemantic codebase search + persistent working memory for AI code editors. Local, no API key.
No reviews yetlocal · pypi2336/wkFreePersistent memory for AI agents — history, context, semantic search, queues. 17 tools, stdio/SSE.
No reviews yetgateway-ready179/wkFreeSearch and cross-reference local AI chat history with read-only tools and source citations.
No reviews yetlocal · pypi1260/wkFreeSearch scholarly sources, verify references, and export citations with traceable evidence.
No reviews yetlocal · pypi1210/wkFree
