Search Gateway vs mxcp
Side-by-side comparison of two Model Context Protocol servers. Pick the right one for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or Cursor.
Unified web-search & research MCP server: fuses 18 sources (web, social, code, video, academic) via weighted RRF, re-ranks with a cross-encoder, MMR-diversifies
Comparison
| Feature | Search Gateway | mxcp |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| Installs | — | — |
| Rating | — | — |
| Verified | — | |
| Hosted | — | — |
| Tools | — | — |
| Category | data | data |
| Author | kbjama8 | raw-labs |
| Repo | kbjama8/search-gateway | raw-labs/mxcp |
When to pick Search Gateway
Unified web-search & research MCP server: fuses 18 sources (web, social, code, video, academic) via weighted RRF, re-ranks with a cross-encoder, MMR-diversifies, freshness-filters, Redis-caches — then synthesizes cited answers with DeepSeek. stdio/HTTP, lazy models. Client-agnostic: Works with Claude Code, OpenCode or any other MCP host.
When to pick mxcp
Open-source framework for building enterprise-grade MCP servers using just YAML, SQL, and Python, with built-in auth, monitoring, ETL and policy enforcement.
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