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20 Bright Data alternatives

Bright Data's official MCP server — search, scrape, and extract web data through a large proxy network. 20 MCP servers do similar work, most sharing Scraping, Search and Proxy, ranked by how much they have in common with Bright Data.

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  1. by Exa

    Real-time web search and crawling built for AI — neural search with configurable tools and live content retrieval.

    Also: Scraping, Search

  2. by Glen Maddern

    A proxy that lets local-only MCP clients connect to remote servers, handling OAuth and transport differences.

    Also: Proxy

  3. by Apify

    Apify's official MCP server — turn thousands of ready-made scrapers into tools your assistant can call.

    Also: Scraping

  4. by Rayen Mlayeh

    Goal-directed web crawler MCP server that returns only the passages answering your agent's question, verbatim and with sources.

    Also: Scraping

  5. by SerpApi

    Official SerpApi MCP server: real-time Google, Bing, YouTube and other search results as structured JSON or token-saving markdown.

    Also: Scraping

  6. by Karim Shoair (D4Vinci)

    Lets AI agents scrape the web through Scrapling, with HTTP, browser and Cloudflare-bypassing stealth fetches and CSS-narrowed, sanitized output.

    Also: Scraping

  7. by Crawlbase

    Official Crawlbase MCP server giving agents live web access — fetch any URL as raw HTML, clean Markdown or a screenshot, with JS rendering and proxy rotation handled for you.

    Also: Scraping

  8. by KnockOutEZ

    Local-first web MCP server for AI agents — search, fetch, crawl, extract and deep research with no API keys, no cloud round-trip and no per-query bill.

    Also: Scraping

  9. by Model Context Protocol

    Browser automation for AI clients — navigate, click, type, screenshot, and run JavaScript in a real page.

    Also: Scraping

  10. by Firecrawl

    Search, scrape, crawl, and extract structured data from the web — with JS rendering, batch scraping, and LLM-powered extraction.

    Also: Scraping

  11. by Model Context Protocol

    Fetch a URL and convert its contents to clean Markdown for efficient LLM consumption.

    Also: Scraping

  12. by X

    X's own hosted MCP server: full-archive post search, user and timeline lookup, trends, bookmarks and article drafting, under your account's permissions.

    Also: Search

  13. by Meilisearch

    Official MCP server for Meilisearch — create and configure indexes, add documents, run hybrid and semantic searches, and manage API keys and tasks through conversation.

    Also: Search

  14. by Ihor Sokoliuk

    Private, self-hosted web search for AI assistants via SearXNG, with pagination, filters, and URL-to-markdown reading.

    Also: Search

  15. by Arcmira

    Remote MCP server for searching YouTube transcripts: find who said what with timestamps, mentions, sponsors and recommendations.

    Also: Search

  16. by Kagi

    Official Kagi MCP server: ad-free web, news, video and image search plus page extraction as markdown, via hosted or local setup.

    Also: Search

  17. by Typesense

    Typesense's official remote MCP server — search collections, index documents, and create, resize or clone the Typesense Cloud clusters behind them, over OAuth with per-agent permission presets.

    Also: Search

  18. by Algolia

    Algolia's managed MCP server at mcp.algolia.com — read-only access to indices, Recommend models and search analytics over OAuth, with no API keys to manage.

    Also: Search

  19. by Microsoft

    Microsoft's official remote MCP server for Learn documentation — semantic search over first-party Azure and .NET docs, page fetch, and verified code samples. Free, no key.

    Also: Search

  20. by cyanheads

    Search and read Wikipedia from an AI client — summaries, full articles, specific sections, and nearby pages.

    Also: Search