Sofya alternatives
12 MCP servers, A2A agents and x402 APIs that also do research, web search, ranked by how much they overlap with Sofya (MCP server), live ones first.
Compared
| Name | Type | Live | Tools / skills | Check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sofya (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 |
| Web Scout | MCP server | Yes | – | 55/100 |
| CalmSEO | MCP server | Yes | – | – |
| Conqueror | MCP server | Yes | – | – |
| parse-mcp | MCP server | Yes | – | – |
| Searcherries: AI Visibility & SEO | MCP server | Yes | – | – |
| SerpKite | MCP server | Yes | – | – |
| Vend API Merchant | A2A agent | Yes | 9 | 90/100 |
| Web Search & Data API (kadec0) | x402 paid API | Yes | 12 | 90/100 |
| Moonlings — Local Business Intelligence | MCP server | Yes | 8 | 80/100 |
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, web search
- 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, web search
- 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, web search
- 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, web search
- CalmSEO Live MCP
SEO MCP server for keyword research, SERP analysis, audits, and Search Console workflows.
MCP server · com.calmseo · also does research, web search
- Conqueror Live MCP
Turns SEO insight into page changes: keyword research, SERP and rank data, rewrites you approve.
MCP server · com.conquerorapp · also does research, web search
- parse-mcp Live MCP
Hosted MCP server for AI brand visibility research. Search brands, prompts, and dataset stats across Parse's AI visibility index covering ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot, and more.
MCP server · dimitry · also does research, web search
- Searcherries: AI Visibility & SEO Live MCP
Connect AI agents to your AI visibility and SEO data: competitors, citations, GSC, GA4, Bing.
MCP server · com.searcherries · also does research, web search
- SerpKite Live MCP
Google search, news, maps, scholar and public webpages for AI agents, with Markdown results.
MCP server · io.github.SerpKite · also does research, web search
- Vend API Merchant Live A2A
Pay-per-call API merchant settled in Nano (XNO): web page extraction, link status checks, URL status checks, domain intelligence, web search, IP geolocation, Nano account info and YouTube transcript extraction. No signu…
A2A agent · Vend · 9 skills · check 90/100 · also does research, web search
- Web Search & Data API (kadec0) Live x402
Pay-per-call web search and web data for AI agents. Multi-engine SERP (web + news, batch, rank-fused), search-and-read (top hits to markdown in one call), URL-to-markdown scraping, Google Trends (interest over time, rel…
x402 paid API · 12 endpoints · check 90/100 · also does research, web search
- Moonlings — Local Business Intelligence Live MCP
AI visibility + fact-checks (ChatGPT/Perplexity), review gaps & competitor scans, local SEO.
MCP server · ai.moonlings · 8 tools · check 80/100 · also does research, web search