Best MCP Servers

The best MCP server to start with is Firecrawl’s: it gives Claude Code and Cursor live web search and scraping, free for 1,000 credits a month. Try Firecrawl (we earn a commission if you sign up through this link; it never affects our scores). An MCP server is a small program that hands an AI agent a set of tools over the Model Context Protocol, so the agent can read a web page, query a database or pull current docs instead of guessing. To pick one, check who ships it (the vendor’s own server beats an abandoned fork), the licence, the latest release, what it is allowed to change (database and design servers can write), and whether the free tier covers your call volume. Every tool here is scored with our published rubric, and any Our pick is labelled. Five notable servers, read from their own repos and vendor pages on 7 November 2026: Firecrawl is the official firecrawl-mcp-server (MIT, 7,775 GitHub stars, v3.36.1 released 3 November 2026) with scrape, search, crawl, map and browser-interact tools; the hosted endpoint has a keyless, rate-limited tier for scrape, search and parse, and API plans run Free ($0, 1,000 credits), Hobby ($19 a month monthly, 5,000 credits) and Standard ($99 a month, 100,000 credits) (review). Context7 from Upstash (MIT, 64,328 stars) pulls version-specific library docs into your agent so it stops inventing APIs; a free API key gives higher rate limits (review). Supabase ships an official server (supabase/mcp, Apache-2.0, 2,997 stars) that connects your projects to Claude, Cursor and Windsurf, and the vendor tells you to read its security best practices before connecting an LLM to a live project (review). Notion says its local open source server (MIT, 4,699 stars) is no longer actively maintained and points users to its hosted Remote Notion MCP, so use the hosted one (review). Figma runs a hosted server at mcp.figma.com/mcp that feeds design context to coding agents; its guide says Starter plans and View or Collab seats are limited to 6 read tool calls a month (review). Full price and maintenance table: Best MCP Servers (2026), 12 maintained picks checked on 3 November 2026. Building your own agent to call these servers? Our open source AI agent frameworks census compares 19 libraries by licence and release activity. Best MCP servers for web scraping prices Firecrawl, Bright Data, Apify and Browserbase per 1,000 pages, and Best Claude Code subagents covers what to run on top. Not an MCP server? The web scraping tools category compares Firecrawl, Bright Data, Apify and ScrapeGraphAI on price per page.