"Comparison of Exa MCP Server and Tavily search tools" matching MCP servers:

A portfolio MCP server demonstrating four tools (web search, database query, file reading, directory listing) with read-only SQL, filesystem sandbox, and both stdio and HTTP transports.

MCP server for full-text search across PDF document collections with offline indexing, ranked results, snippets, and page rendering.

MCP server for file operations with non-UTF-8/Unicode encoding: Cyrillic, CP1251, CP1252, ISO-8859, KOI8 auto-detection

MCP server for accurately reading and writing Excel .xlsx files while preserving structure, styles, and formulas. Provides tools for inspecting, editing, and aggregating spreadsheet data, with optional LibreOffice recalculation.

Enables extraction of recipes from PDFs or JPG files and conversion into structured HTML, with interactive region selection and OCR via a web GUI.

MCP server wrapping DeepSeek's agent harness tools into minimal/standard modes, enabling persistent shell, file editing, search, job management, and more via natural language.

A comprehensive tool server for reading, merging, and extracting content from PDF files via local paths or direct URLs. It enables metadata retrieval, regex searching, and page-specific text extraction with built-in caching and workspace-restricted security.

Enables AI agents to explore, analyze, and search file systems, with tools for directory trees, file statistics, duplicate detection, code counting, and multi-criteria file search.

Enables comprehensive management of Obsidian vaults with full CRUD operations, advanced search, link/tag extraction, backlinks discovery, frontmatter editing, and template-based note creation through natural language.

mcp using PyPDF2 to: • merge-pdfs • extract-pages • search-pdfs • merge-pdfs-ordered (merge in user spec. order) • find-related-pdfs (regex extracted text for related PDF files)

Provides web automation utilities, including taking Camofox browser tab screenshots and saving them directly to local files.

A comprehensive MCP server with 30+ custom tools organized into categories: date/time operations, file management, system information, text processing, and web operations. Enables async communication with robust error handling and flexible CLI integration.

A comprehensive MCP server for developers providing file operations, shell execution, git integration, and smart caching to enhance AI-assisted development.

Provides integration with Everything Search Engine allowing powerful file search capabilities through the Model Context Protocol with advanced search options like regex, case sensitivity, and sorting.

Provides advanced system monitoring and file search capabilities for macOS, allowing users to track performance metrics and perform enhanced file searches with content analysis and tagging features.

Enables file reading with pagination and regex-based code search across a codebase using grep.

Gives any MCP-compatible AI chat or agent a safe, model-neutral coding runtime with file read/search, structured multi-file patches, command execution, interactive sessions, and git operations, all confined to a single workspace and gated by permission modes.

An MCP server for reading, writing, and analyzing Excel files using Python, pandas, and openpyxl. It enables tasks such as managing multiple worksheets, performing structural data analysis, and creating new files from JSON data.

Enables searching text across configured local workspaces using ripgrep. Provides secure text search capabilities within defined workspace boundaries through both MCP server and CLI interfaces.

Adds workspace-scoped copy, move, and delete tools to DevSpace so filesystem changes are validated against workspace boundaries and protected paths instead of relying on shell cp, mv, or rm commands.