serpdive

Real-time web search built for AI agents.

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What it can do

  • Serpdive Search: Search the live web and get back answer-ready page content, not a list of links. Each result carries the actual text of the page (url, title, date, content), already extracted, cleane

What data it sees

Do you need an account

An API key from the service settings is required

Real-time web search built for AI agents. One tool, serpdive_search, returns the actual content of the best pages — extracted, cleaned, and sized for LLMs — not a list of links to crawl.

Why SERPdive

On a public, replayable 1,000-question benchmark against Tavily:

  • Same speed (median ~1.7 s server-side)
  • 20.2% fewer tokens fed to your LLM per search
  • 🏆 60.7% of decided quality duels won

Same questions, same judge, replayable end to end on your machine.

The tool

serpdive_search(query, model?, answer?, max_results?)

  • query — the search, in any language; localization is automatic
  • model — mako (default): the fact-carrying sentences of each page, fast. moby: the full readable text, for deep research
  • answer — true adds a direct answer synthesized from the sources (cited on moby)
  • max_results — hard cap on results, 1 to 10

Every result ships as { url, title, date?, content } — quote and cite straight from the response. Failed searches are never billed.

Get started

Free API key, no card required → serpdive.com/dashboard/keys

  • Hosted server: https://mcp.serpdive.com (this listing)
  • Local stdio: npx -y serpdive-mcp (GitHub)
  • Docs: serpdive.com/docs

How to connect

How to connect serpdive to Claude

The server address to paste into Claude settings:

https://serpdive--serpdive.run.tools

  1. Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
  2. Go to Settings → Connectors.
  3. Click Add custom connector.
  4. Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
  5. In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.

Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.

Authorization

After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.

How to connect serpdive to ChatGPT

The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:

https://serpdive--serpdive.run.tools

  1. Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
  2. Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
  3. Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
  4. Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
  5. Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
  6. In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.

OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.

Authorization

On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.

How to connect serpdive to Cursor

The server address to paste into Cursor settings:

https://serpdive--serpdive.run.tools

Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.

Manually:

  1. In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
  2. Paste the JSON copied below into ~/.cursor/mcp.json (per project: .cursor/mcp.json in the repo root).
  3. Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.

Authorization

If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.

Server tool list (1)

Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.

serpdive_searchSearch the live web and get back answer-ready page content, not a list of links. Each result carries the actual text of the page (url, title, date, content), already extracted, cleaned and trimmed for LLM use, so facts can be quoted and cited straight from the response. Use it for anything that needs current or post-training information: news, prices, releases, docs, sports, niche facts. Write the query the way a person would type it, in any language: localization is automatic. The 'mako' model (default) returns the fact-carrying sentences of each page, fast and concise, right for most questions. The 'moby' model returns the full readable text of each page: use it for deep research or when complete context matters. Set answer=true to also get a direct answer synthesized from the sources.