Best MCP servers for RAG
We found 145 MCP servers for RAG in the catalog; these are the 15 that rank highest. The order comes from our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness, documentation and publisher identity. Nobody can pay for a place on this list. haiku.rag, Google Surf MCP and Synaplan lead it. Apple-rag is published by the company that makes it. haiku.rag has the most GitHub stars here (636). 14 of the 15 had activity in the last 30 days. Remote servers need no local install; local ones run on your machine and can reach local files. Each entry lists why it made the list and links to its install page.
Updated Oct 26, 2026 · Built from catalog data; how we rank and grade
Top 15 of 145
- 1haiku.rag
ggozad
Local-first agentic RAG with citations - hybrid search, reranking, multimodal document retrieval
- Most GitHub stars here (636)
- Most weekly downloads here (806)
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 636↓ 806/wkLast active Oct 23, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2Google Surf MCP
HarimxChoi
Web, academic and code search with graph RAG, data lineage, ontology and cross-project schema links.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 291Last active Oct 20, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 3Synaplan
metadist
Self-hosted AI workspace: semantic RAG document search, long-term memory, and AI chat.
- Remote server, no local install
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 220Last active Oct 24, 2026Remote (HTTP)Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4PDF MCP
jztan
Agentic RAG over one PDF or a whole folder: hybrid search, selective page reads, tables, OCR.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 155↓ 770/wkLast active Oct 8, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Claude Desktop +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 5Apple-rag
apple-rag.comOfficial
Apple developer docs and WWDC transcripts with RAG retrieval and Jev relevance ranking.
- Published by the vendor
- Remote server, no local install
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 121Last active Oct 21, 2026Remote (HTTP)Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6MCP Local RAG
shinpr
Easy-to-setup local RAG server with minimal configuration
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 420Last active Oct 22, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 7loci
IvenKooLab
Cross-session memory and hybrid RAG over your notes and docs.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 99↓ 273/wkLast active Oct 22, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 8Minirag MCP
sfrangulov
Local-first RAG MCP server: hybrid search over a folder of your own documents
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 58↓ 411/wkLast active Oct 23, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 9DocPull
raintree-technology
Sync public web sources into cited context packs for AI agents, RAG, and MCP clients.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 29↓ 348/wkLast active Oct 23, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 10NVIDIA NemoClaw CKG
Yarmoluk
NVIDIA NemoClaw knowledge graph — 55 nodes, F1 0.576 (+269% vs RAG), 11x fewer tokens.
- Runs locally or as a remote server
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
↓ 182/wkLast active Jul 29, 2026Local (stdio), Remote (HTTP)Claude Code, VS Code, Codex, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 11PageIndex MCP
VectifyAI
Reasoning-based RAG system for chatting with long PDFs.
- Open source (MIT)
★ 404↓ 31/wkLast active Jul 25, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Claude Desktop +2
CFreshness: C–Security: not graded yet - 12DataSinking
heubme2020
Full-text financial reports (US, China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, UK) as clean Markdown for RAG agents.
- Runs locally or as a remote server
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 22↓ 63/wkLast active Oct 19, 2026Local (stdio), Remote (HTTP)Claude Code, VS Code, Codex, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 13Salesforce AgentForce CKG
Yarmoluk
Salesforce AgentForce knowledge graph — 40 nodes, Einstein Trust Layer, 11x fewer tokens than RAG.
- Runs locally or as a remote server
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
↓ 134/wkLast active Jul 29, 2026Local (stdio), Remote (HTTP)Claude Code, VS Code, Codex, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 14Gctrl
GCTRL-TECH
Governed graph-native agent memory: knowledge extraction, fusion, hybrid RAG, scoped access tokens.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (AGPL-3.0)
★ 7Last active Oct 23, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 15Tw Legal RAG
aa0101181514
Citation-guarded retrieval over 22M Taiwan court judgments and administrative interpretations
- Remote server, no local install
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 332Last active Oct 21, 2026Remote (HTTP)Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet