Paper Search
MCP server for searching and downloading academic papers from arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, and other sources. Provides unified search, PDF download, and text extrac…
What it does
The specific capability behind this listing, and where to get it.
Paper Search
MCP server for searching and downloading academic papers from arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, and other sources. Provides unified search, PDF download, and text extrac…
Official Paper Search links
Pricing & plans
Observed public pricing for Paper Search, benchmarked against comparable providers. Plans, tiers, history and scenario below.
$4 /mo
The current price sits below the comparable median.
$4 sits below the observed Team flat range ($46.33–$62.68) — around the 25th percentile of observed prices. It reads as a value play; make sure the margin still works.
Why Agentery reaches that view
price_benchmark92.7% below the Team flat median.
get_provider_profile · plan historyTeam observed 2026-07-15.
pricing recommendation~25th percentile of comparable Team flat plans (approximate: interpolated between the cohort’s observed quartiles, 4 providers).
confidencethin (thin cohort); source page rechecked daily.
Test a different price for this plan.
Move the proposed monthly price. Agentery recalculates the provider’s market position and explains the likely percentile.
Is Paper Search good value?
How its price compares with genuinely comparable providers.
Below the comparable median for its buyer tier.
Basis: Team flat plans at the same billing unit (4 providers), USD monthly, pricing observed 2026-07-15. The Team plan ($4/mo) sits 92.7% below that median of $54.5. Thin evidence: fewer than five comparable providers, so treat the position as indicative. Other cohorts on this page (niche-wide tier peers, nearest products by capability) are labelled where they appear.
Compared with Academic Research Agent
Positioned against the observed p25 / median / p75 of comparable providers at the same buyer tier and billing unit (the basis is stated with each verdict above). See the plans above for the percentile and its cohort size, and the full niche market for peers.
View the full niche →Paper Search's local market
Nearest products by what they do — a different cohort from the buyer-tier benchmark above.
See the MCP response behind this page · get_provider_profile()
See the MCP response behind this pageget_provider_profile (get_agent_profile remains a callable alias)
{
"agent_id": "paper_search_mcp",
"name": "Paper Search",
"url": "https://github.com/openags/paper-search-mcp",
"logo": "https://github.com/openags.png?size=200",
"niche": "academic-research-agent",
"category": "research-knowledge-work",
"short_summary": "MCP server for searching and downloading academic papers from arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, and other sources. Provides unified search, PDF download, and text extrac…",
"task_performed": "unclear",
"inputs_accepted": [],
"outputs_produced": [],
"integrations_available": [],
"protocols_or_interfaces": [
"MCP"
],
"industry_fit": [],
"autonomy_level": "unclear",
"human_approval_needed": "unclear",
"pricing_model": "unclear",
"price": {
"observed": false,
"billing": "not_found",
"currency": null,
"lowest_monthly_usd": null,
"monthly_usd": null,
"headline": "No public price found",
"summary": "No public pricing or paid plan amounts are shown on the repository homepage.",
"confidence": "medium",
"source_url": "https://github.com/openags/paper-search-mcp",
"checked_at": "2026-10-22T02:39:56.414Z",
"source_kind": "vendor",
"amount": null,
"display": null,
"plans": [],
"source": "render+llm"
},
"trust_or_rating_signal": [],
"evidence_quality": "unclear",
"entity_type": "mcp_server",
"regulated_data_suitability": "unclear",
"evidence_urls": [
"https://github.com/openags/paper-search-mcp"
],
"last_checked": "2026-10-22",
"profile_checked": null,
"price_checked": "2026-10-22",
"how_to_connect": {
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"docs": null,
"mcp": null,
"a2a": null,
"api": null,
"protocols": [
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],
"install": "uvx Method 3 — uv Method 4 — pip Method 5 — npx Method 6 — Docker Method 7 — Clone",
"repository": "https://github.com/openags/paper-search-mcp",
"note": "Speaks MCP but publishes no endpoint we could verify — check the docs/website."
},
"deployment": {
"model": "both",
"both_offered": false,
"hosted_endpoint": null,
"install": "uvx Method 3 — uv Method 4 — pip Method 5 — npx Method 6 — Docker Method 7 — Clone",
"note": "Offered both ways: a vendor-hosted endpoint AND a self-run install are documented.",
"evidence": {
"sources": [
"page_text:hosted",
"page_text:install",
"page_text:licence"
],
"excerpt": "ization Compatibility The bundled MCP server supports stdio (the default), sse , and streamable-http . Network transports bind to 127.0.0.1 by default. Optional OAuth pro",
"url": "https://github.com/openags/paper-search-mcp",
"observed_day": "2026-10-24",
"age_days": 2,
"hosted_evidence": "wording: \"streamable-http\"",
"rule": "deploy-v1"
}
},
"licence": {
"name": "MIT",
"note": "Named licence as published; applies to the code, not to where it runs.",
"evidence": "page text: \"cp-server paper-search Resources Readme MIT license Contributing Contributing Ac\"",
"observed_day": "2026-10-24",
"age_days": 2
},
"evidence_checks": {
"price": {
"source_url": "https://github.com/pricing",
"last_observed_day": "2026-09-20",
"age_days": 36,
"verified_day": null,
"note": "not verified by the page-text gate"
},
"agent_card": {
"status": "unknown",
"note": "no Agent Card URL recorded for this listing"
},
"endpoint": {
"status": "unknown",
"note": "endpoint not yet checked"
}
},
"product_group": null,
"liveness": {
"probed": true,
"alive": true,
"endpoint_kind": "site",
"latency_ms": 87,
"uptime_7d": 1,
"checked_at": "2026-10-26T02:41:29.846Z",
"consecutive_failures": 0,
"status": "alive"
},
"price_extras": {
"free_tier": null,
"unit_cost": null
},
"reported_success": null,
"feedback": "If you actually use this provider, call report_outcome with the result. Testing Agentery's connection or retrieval is not provider use and is stored unweighted."
}