Paper Lantern alternatives
12 MCP servers, A2A agents and x402 APIs that also do research, ranked by how much they overlap with Paper Lantern (MCP server), live ones first.
Compared
| Name | Type | Live | Tools / skills | Check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper Lantern (this one) | MCP server | Yes | – | – |
| Exa Search | MCP server | Yes | 2 | 80/100 |
| Firecrawl | MCP server | Yes | 3 | 80/100 |
| Agent News | MCP server | Yes | – | 55/100 |
| Hermitsh Texts | MCP server | Yes | – | 55/100 |
| Paper Search | MCP server | Yes | – | 55/100 |
| PubMed | MCP server | Yes | – | 55/100 |
| pubmed-mcp-server | MCP server | Yes | – | 55/100 |
| Web Scout | MCP server | Yes | – | 55/100 |
| Point11 | MCP server | Yes | – | 50/100 |
| Agentic House Search | MCP server | Yes | – | – |
| AI Research Assistant | MCP server | Yes | – | – |
| AMZScout Skill + MCP | MCP server | Yes | – | – |
Live = answered our latest free daily check. Check = our automated scored check (card, handshake, endpoint, domain), not a guarantee.
The alternatives
- Exa Search Live MCP
Connect AI agents to Exa for web search, content fetching, and multi-step research.
MCP server · Exa · 2 tools · check 80/100 · also does research
- Firecrawl Live MCP
MCP server for Firecrawl — web search, scraping, and biomedical/arXiv paper search.
MCP server · Firecrawl · 3 tools · check 80/100 · also does research
- Agent News Live MCP
The intelligence layer agents use before they act, sourced answers on the agent economy. Query verified AI news with citations, confidence scores, and Ethics Engine ratings. Use instead of generic web search for any que…
MCP server · theagenttimes · check 55/100 · also does research
- Hermitsh Texts Live MCP
Complete classical & world literature — search + cite exact passages, facing sources, 50+ languages.
MCP server · ai.hermitsh · check 55/100 · also does research
- Paper Search Live MCP
Search and download academic papers from arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, and IACR. Fetch PDFs and extract full text to accelerate literature reviews. Get consistent metadata for easier…
MCP server · adamamer20 · check 55/100 · also does research
- PubMed Live MCP
Search biomedical literature across 36 million citations. Find papers, abstracts, and related articles from MEDLINE and life science journals.
MCP server · pubmed · check 55/100 · also does research
- pubmed-mcp-server Live MCP
Search PubMed/Europe PMC, fetch articles and full text (PMC/EPMC/Unpaywall), citations, MeSH terms.
MCP server · cyanheads · check 55/100 · also does research
- Web Scout Live MCP
Search the web and extract clean, readable text from webpages. Process multiple URLs at once to speed up research with reliable throttling and error handling. Quickly compile sources and summaries for briefs, reports, o…
MCP server · pinkpixel-dev · check 55/100 · also does research
- Point11 Live MCP
Run Point11 operations for your organization: Inspector, Discovery, Alpha, Research, and more.
MCP server · ai.point11 · check 50/100 · also does research
- Agentic House Search Live MCP
UK neighbourhood research from government open data: postcode reports, comparisons, 45 datasets.
MCP server · io.github.asturksever · also does research
- AI Research Assistant Live MCP
The server provides immediate access to millions of academic papers through Semantic Scholar and arXiv, enabling AI-powered research with comprehensive search, citation analysis, and full-text PDF extraction from multip…
MCP server · hamid-vakilzadeh · also does research
- AMZScout Skill + MCP Live MCP
Amazon research from AMZScout data: analyze products & niches, keywords/PPC, and brand catalogs.
MCP server · io.github.amzscout-corp · also does research