Which MCP server is best for web search?

It depends on what else you need. A local server is free to run but you maintain it and bring a search API key; this one is hosted, priced per search, and the same key runs every chat, image and video model, so one connection covers search and the model that reads the results.

Is there a free web search MCP?

Local open-source servers are free to run and call a search engine you configure. Searches here are paid per search from a prepaid balance (the price is in the table above), with no subscription.

Does Google Search have an MCP server?

This page covers this server only. It is not Google’s: search returns web results with titles, URLs, snippets and publish dates, and a failed search is not charged.

How do I find an MCP server URL?

This one is https://api.relayswitch.io/mcp. Send your key as Authorization: Bearer sk-relay-live-...; the server card at https://api.relayswitch.io/mcp/server-card says the same to a client that reads cards.

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A web search MCP server on the key that runs every model

search runs one web search and returns up to ten results with title, URL, snippet and publish date, optionally only from the last day, week, month or year. chat can also search while it answers with web_search, so a model that cannot browse gets live results. One URL, one key, priced per search.

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Connect

Add the server to your client

The server is https://api.relayswitch.io/mcp, Streamable HTTP, with your key sent as a Bearer header. Keys start sk-relay-.

Claude Code

bash

1claude mcp add --transport http relayswitch https://api.relayswitch.io/mcp \

2 --header "Authorization: Bearer $RELAYSWITCH_KEY"

Then /mcp in Claude Code lists the server and its tools.

Cursor

json

1// .cursor/mcp.json (this project) or ~/.cursor/mcp.json (every project)

2{

3 "mcpServers": {

4 "relayswitch": {

5 "url": "https://api.relayswitch.io/mcp",

6 "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${env:RELAYSWITCH_KEY}" }

7 }

8 }

9}

Check it from a terminal

bash

1curl https://api.relayswitch.io/mcp \

2 -H "Authorization: Bearer $RELAYSWITCH_KEY" \

3 -H "Content-Type: application/json" \

4 -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \

5 -d '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "tools/list"}'

Tools

What the client can call

The tools this page is about. The server lists 15 in all; the rest are on the MCP server page.

Tool	What it does	Key
`search`	One web search: titles, URLs, snippets and dates, up to 10 results.	Bearer
`chat`	A conversation to any chat model, with a system prompt, images for the models that see them, and web search.	Bearer
`compare`	The same question to 2 to 5 models at once: every answer side by side with its cost and time.	Bearer

Prices

What each call costs, read live

From the catalog at render. The developer’s list price is shown where the catalog has it.

Model	Input / M	Output / M	List input / M	List output / M
Gemini 3 Flash Previewgemini-3-flash-preview	$0.375	$2.25	$0.50	$3.00

USD per million tokens. compare bills each model it asks at its own rate.

Web search: $0.01 a search, the same price for the search tool and for chat with web_search.

Try it

What to ask once it is connected

Plain requests; the client picks the tool.

Search the web for this week’s changes to the Model Context Protocol spec and summarize them with links.
Use chat with web_search on gemini-3-flash-preview: what is the latest stable version of Next.js, and what changed?
Search for the error message in this log, then tell me the likely fix.

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FAQs

Web search MCP: questions

Setup, models and billing.

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